A Diachronic study of Morphological change in language: The influence of sociolinguistic factors in English Language

Abstract

A thorough diachronic analysis of morphological changes in the English language is presented in this paper, with an emphasis on the impact of several sociolinguistic elements. Language development is shaped by a complex interplay of social, cultural, historical, and technological variables. This research sheds light on word frequency changes, semantic shifts, the emergence of new words, and the loss of archaic terms. In order to do this, a large and varied corpus was assembled, which included written and spoken texts from various historical eras, geographical locations, and sociolinguistic contexts. These texts included literary works, newspapers, private letters, spoken discourse transcripts, and online texts from blogs, social media, and forums. The research used both quantitative and qualitative techniques to pinpoint notable vocabulary changes and looked at the connections between particular investigated the connections between the noted changes and particular sociolinguistic variables, such as gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and geographic region. The study provided a clearer knowledge of how various social processes contribute to the molding of the language by revealing links between sociolinguistic characteristics and the evolution of the English vocabulary.

Keywords- Diachronic, Morphological, sociolinguistic, English Language