This phenomenon includes a wide range of factors, including phonological shifts, grammatical modifications, lexical additions and deletions, syntactic and semantic changes, and more, that result in changes in language.
Language is a dynamic and always changing communication system that is influenced and reflected in the history, culture, and socioeconomic changes of a particular set of speakers. Linguistic evolution is the process by which languages evolve over time, much like biological evolution. This phenomenon includes a wide range of factors, including phonological shifts, grammatical modifications, lexical additions and deletions, syntactic and semantic changes, and more, that result in changes in language. Understanding the social and historical dynamics that shape language change requires an understanding of the complex mechanisms driving linguistic evolution, which is illuminated by this field of research.