ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Preposition And Postposition, Language Change, Determinism
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Metaphor: conceptual metaphor, orientation metaphor, dead metaphor. Amazing diversity between languages and the form itself. Language change: the manner in which features of a language are modified over time. Phonological change: change of sounds over regional space. Morphological change: change in structure of words. Lexical change: what constitutes a word in one language may be different to another language. Syntactic change: the order of words in a sentence(implicit rules that govern how sentences are formed) Semantic change: change in meanings over time(meanings become obsolete) Borrowing: words taken from other languages: kinds of language change: Regional: language that moves to another part of the world will change (vocabulary, words etc. ) Personal change: every person speaks differently, individual differences is a huge driver of language change over time: foreign influence, religious influence. Assimilation: when two sounds occur together they become more like each other. Lexical change: can"t predict what may happen, but we can rationalize, pejoration(word becomes worse as time goes):
