https://elevate.cambridge.org/elevate/Reader/viewer.aspx#book/151/Ch16_02
Language Change
Our language has been influenced by a variety of sources for years and years, and will continue to develop. It seems we are influenced by the product of years of invasion and settlement from Germanic tribes, Vikings and Norman French.
In the 18th century we borrowed language from Latin, Greek and around the world. Now in the 20th century we have used the influence of the media, technology, and travel.
Lexical Change
neologisms - new words
lexical change is frequent and noticeable
initialisms take the first letters of a series of words and pronounce each one
Prescriptivists are likely to resist to new forms
Descriptivists are likely to embrace and welcome change
Semantic change is an existing word gaining or losing a sense of meaning.
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