EXTRA-LINGUISTIC MOTIVES INITIATING LANGUAGE CHANGE

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.