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English lenguaje and literatura

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Introducción

Linguistic change is the name given to the process of modification and

transformation that, in their historical evolution, all languages experience in
general, and the linguistic units of each of their levels in particular.

Linguistic change differs from linguistic variation in that in the former the
modifications are diachronic and, therefore, are studied by historical
linguistics, while the variations are synchronous and are analyzed, among
other disciplines, by sociolinguistics. Linguistic change is an internal process
of the language that has nothing to do with language change or linguistic
substitution, which is a process conditioned by external factors.

Two factors that have always intervened in linguistic change have been loans
and analogy, the first being an example of external cause and the second of
internal cause. Linguistic changes are grouped for convenience into three
levels: phonetic change, morphosyntactic change, and lexical-semantic
change.
Problema:

One of the problems with this topic is that you don't always know what
language it is, but the easiest to recognize is English and, well, I can't put a
problem situation since I think there are no possible exercises.