Editing Historical Linguistics (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Analyzing</span> ==
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|+ Drivers of Language Change
! Driver !! Mechanism !! Example
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| Economy of Effort || Making sounds easier to say || 'Going to' → 'Gonna'
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| Analogy || Making irregular forms regular || 'Clomb' → 'Climbed'
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| Contact || Borrowing from other cultures || 'Alcohol' from Arabic; 'Cafe' from French
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| Expressiveness || Creating new terms for new ideas || 'Selfie', 'Ghosting', 'Podcast'
|}

'''The Tree Model vs. Wave Model''':
* '''Tree Model''': Languages split like branches (e.g., Latin split into French, Spanish, Italian).
* '''Wave Model''': Linguistic changes spread like ripples in a pond, crossing "language" boundaries. This explains why neighboring languages of different families often start to look like each other (Sprachbund).
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