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Language Variation Over Time

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By: Leoni Langman
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Theorists
Jean aitchison,
External sociolinguistic factors,
Internal psycholinguistic factors
10  cards
lexical terminology
Loan words,
Affixation prefix,
Affixation suffix
16  cards
Ideology
Political correctness,
Semantic change and political cor...,
Religion
5  cards
Semantic change
Broadening,
Narrowing,
Amelioration
8  cards
Grammatical change
Syntax,
Morphology,
Dummy auxiliary
5  cards
Key dates
The norman conquest,
Printing technology was brought t...,
The first english dictionary
12  cards
Orphographical change
The great vowel shift,
The norman conquest 1066,
Printing press
6  cards
Punctuation change
Capitalisation in 17th and 18th c...,
Capitalisation in modern texts,
How do older texts separate their...
3  cards
Phonological change
Phonological change,
The great vowel shift,
Dialect levelling
6  cards

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