Abstract
The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself. Linguistic changes and/or developments might have undergone due to specific motives, although only some are reasonably understood. Actually, internal and external causes are the major classification of such motives. This paper investigates and analyses the external motives only which are triggered by the nature of society outside language system; outside the structure of language and the human organism. These motives stand behind the innovation or modification of lexical aspect in language in a hope to reveal an in-depth understanding of the role of lexemes in reflecting language change. New words, i.e. neologisms, will be utilised to implement the idea of language change. By handling this item, we find out that language's lexemes change due to specific factors that occur in society as a whole with the readiness of language users to that change.
Highlights
The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself
This study does not deal with purely linguistic causes, but with extralinguistic ones that help to the innovation of new words or extension of new meaning(s) of an old word
Being too lazy or too ignorant to search for the "proper" indigenous word of form is one of the causes that lead to language change
Summary
The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself. Time changes all things. Theorists of L-change, such as Labov, Milroys, Trudgill, Aitchison, Lyons and Deutscher agree that there is an amazing number of explanations and speculations that have been made to determine motives of L-change. Rey (1995) confirms that a need for neologisms is due to an external or internal pressure These motives are generally regarded as sources of specific changes in language. Coseriu (1975) speculates that language system (Saussure’s langue) determines what is possible in any given language, whereas the speech (parole) of an individual can be seen as the realisation of the norm (Bauer 2003) These motives cannot cause a change unless language is ready for that change (Aitchison 2004). It is L-users "that change their language while using it in language perception and production" (Booij, 2005, p.256). Aitchison (2004) confirms that L-users get adjusted to a change when they hear it frequently
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