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Day: January 15, 2016

Modern inventions have made it possible to hear how our great grand parents spoke. Will this influence how the language and dialects change?

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Posted in categories: General Language, Linguistics

*Probably* not. Language change is influenced by several things, in both a conservative and a innovative direction. Input from older versions of the languages demonstrably has an effect in holding back language change — or at least, in promoting use of the older version’s features in parallel. Outright reversing language change doesn’t happen that often, […]

Is it possible to make a language out of only one type of word (noun, verb, adjective etc)?

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Posted in categories: General Language, Linguistics

Logan R. Kearsley has written a comprehensive answer on one angle. I will throw a hint on another angle: if you have enough Noun Incorporation (linguistics)  and polysynthesis at a language, you’re going to end up with languages where what European languages treat as nouns or adjectives usually end up as affixes—so what look like […]