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...ion refers to a change in a [[consonant]] to a weaker, softer use (for the language), where this strength refers to the degree of significance it has in the language's [[phone]] set / [[diphone]] structure. ...

In linguistics, '''prescription''' codifies language use, while '''description''' only studies it. ...nguage speakers should really be paying more attention to correct use of a language. ...

...correct application of a (perceived) rule, often leading to unusual use of language. ...cleaned version of the language that is in books is the only proper use of language. ...

Assignment - change value of a given variable, often within the narrowest scope The language you use has an effect ...

so to unusual words and/or things that beyond a language's basic morphology. ...but it may include things that fit the language already, ...

What, then, does that language describe and include? The point at which you call something different, such as a different '''language''' or different '''dialect''', ...

As a term within linguistics, agreement refers to a language's grammar requiring words to match certain other words in some property. ...ntences with the same structure may need changing in various places if you change some aspect of it)}}, and often some information redundancy as well. It int ...

The Roman empire spoke [[Latin]]. Latin grew from a local language in Italy, and was spread by the Roman empire. Greek resisted Latin change, so was and still is separate from Romance languages. Germanic languages ar ...

They visually change a word to mark properties, or relational information, such as number, perso * does not change the [[lexical category]] ...

...of which try to get into the [https://iep.utm.edu/lang-phi/ philosophy of language], but that was always a somewhat fragile view) Idiomatic language often does ''not'' follow'' compositionality. ...

<!--That said, they ''can'' lead to language change.--> ...

Keep in mind that the majority of [[discourse]] (spoken language) is ungrammatical in its fragmented nature, This extends the above meaning with langauge change (and arguably preference). ...

This makes the process of understanding natural language a lot more interesting and complex, Most any natural language is ambiguous at every level. Consider: ...

'''Pleonasm''' refers to overabundance. Not just in language, but that is our focus here. Around language, pleonasm usually refers to phrases with more words than necessary, often b ...

but was never really part of the language, That's what [[language change]] is. ...

In languages that are [[statically typed]], you say you will not change the value. ...can be subtle (and there are some futher subtleties depending on how your language, e.g. with how it thinks about binding versus assignment and the scopes of ...

...ularly when represented in a simple tree - because that's not how language change works, and not how simple most influences went. Large language list: ...

...e''' refers to the group of language variants spoken in China (the Sinitic language family), Including Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min, and more. * Chinese language change is pretty regular, making it easier to guess the meaning of unseen characte ...

...syntax is quite easily understood from the perspective of imperative-style language with OO and some functional properties, such as Python, Javascript, Perl an Immutable objects means that their value cannot change. This has its uses in certain optimizations, and it makes paralellism easie ...

change, which may easily include many aspects of a language at a time - grammar, culture, relevant politics, and more. ...