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Processes by which new words come into a language

Date Submitted: 01/06/2004 15:50:59
Category: / Social Sciences / Language & Speech
Length: 5 pages (1300 words)
Processes by which new words come into a language Language is like a living organism, that is, they can grow(e.g. English) and they can die(e.g. Latin). English is probably one of the more successful languages at growing. You can probably travel to any country in the world and run into someone who knows a few words of English. We might ask the question, how does a language grow? Well, one way …
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