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partial descriptions of two or more stages of the continuous language series being

treated *.

he terms synchronic and diachronic are in general use to distinguish

respectively linguistics statement describing a stage of a language as self%contained

means of communications, at a given time, during which it is arbitrarily assumed that

no changes are ta#ing place, and statements relating to the changes that ta#e place in

languages during the passage of years.

istorical linguistics might from one point of view be regarded as a special

case of comparative linguistics, the third subdivision of general linguistics. In

comparative linguisticone is concerned with comparing from one or more points of

view two or more different languages, and, more generally, with the theory and

techniques applicable to such comparison. In historical linguistic the comparison is

limited to languages which may be regarded as successive stages of the speech of

continuing speech community differing from one period to another as result of

cumulative effects of gradual changes, for the most part imperceptible within a single

generation.

In linguistic we tal# and discussed about the language more specific. he

details of descriptive linguistic is e-plained in this section. It is an empirical science,

in that its subject%matter is observable with the senses, speech as heard, the

movements of the vocal organs as seen directly or with the aid of instrument, the

sensation of spea#ing as perceived by spea#ers, and writing as seen and read. In this

section, descriptive language tal#s and e-plains about the language with its

consonants, vowel system, stress and intonation, morpheme, syntactic devices,

transformation etc.

Language change and development of the language which is the division of

historical linguistics again discussed in the linguistic. Language change trough time.

'nglish as it is spo#en today is very different from 'nglish spo#en around the end of

the first millennium, what we call /ld 'nglish0 below I give samples of 'nglish

from periods 1.

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Old nglish

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/ne reason languages change is because they come into contact with other

languages, by which they are influenced and from which they borrow words,

structure, and meanings. Seconds, children are the major force behind language

change. 7hildren are confronted with linguistic data that is based on the speech of

adults, but they have to induce this grammar based on that data and their innate

language capacity. Sometimes we heard the children said me go haus0 than I go to

house0. hird, humans are prone to speed up sentences li#e e is gone0 and he has

gone0 to something li#e he$s gone0& note the invention here of the comple- word

?he$s$ with its two parts heands (. his letter version is faster, but less clear & because

we cannot tell whether ?s$ means ?has$ or ?is$ here(. If this second version became the

only acceptable version &by being said so often that a new generation of children

acquiring the language thought it the only version(, the language would have changed,

losing certain information but gaining speed.

he speeding%up process continue, eventually producing perhaps $e gone$

instead of ?e$s gone$.


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gone ? for the meaning ?he is gone$. llah bless us. >mien

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