| Lemma | linguistic change |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | A language presents itself to us, at any one moment, as a stable structure of lexical and grammatical habits.
This however, is an illusion. Every language is undergoing, at all times, a slow but unceasing process of 'linguistic change'. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century we have learned to classify the differences between related forms, attributing them to several kinds of linguistic change. |