Historical Linguistics: How Languages Change Through Time

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@article{1709338,
      author = {Olalekan Olusegun Bamidele, PhD.},
      title = {Historical Linguistics: How Languages Change Through Time},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2025},
      volume = {8},
      number = {12},
      pages = {1569-1576},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1709338.pdf},
      abstract = {Language plays a central and crucial role in human communication, culture, and society. One of the remarkable features which has been observed about languages is their ability to change over a period of time. Unlike other social human establishments like culture, taboos, game rules, and use of non-verbal signs among others, languages undergo changes. The rate at which languages keep evolving is such that even linguists can be caught off-guard by the changes. Citing examples from the English language, Mithun (2014: 265-266) identifies phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and semantic as the different layers of change that a language exhibits when its present form is compared with ancient forms. These trajectories are identified by Kiparsky (2014: 8) as contact-induced change, sound change, analogical change, grammaticalization and semantic change, and syntactic change.},
      keywords = {Historical linguistics, Language change, human communication, Language contact, Social differentiation.},
      month = {June},
  }