CERTAIN CURRENT CHANGES IN MODERN ENGLISH
Abstract
All languages change. Even over ten or twenty years enough changes have taken place to force teachers and grammarians to update their descriptions. Language change happens for various reasons. Mechanisms of change include phonetic and structural reduction, creative innovation and the influence that one form of a language can have on another. However, despite developments in specific areas, English as a whole is not changing very quickly. But it is important to keep an eye on what is happening, so as to be able to answer students’questions about new usage, and to be able to modify traditional explanations as this becomes necessary.
About the Author
E. M. Karavaeva
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454
Ekaterina Mikhailovna Karavaeva – PhD in Foreign Literature, Associate Professor, the Department of English language № 2 at MGIMO (U).
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Karavaeva E.M. CERTAIN CURRENT CHANGES IN MODERN ENGLISH. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2016;(5):41-50. (In Russ.)
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