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Old 25-Jul-2007, 04:11
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Default Re: The Grammar and the Lexicon

How are these social phenomena going to affect the evolution of E grammar and lexikon in the long run, across generations?


Of course Bianca there is grammar in vocabulary still consider:
1. The loss of grammatical gender
2. The loss of verb endings except s TPS: he comes
3. The list of irregualr verbs have indeed become smaller especially in American English: dreamed vs dreamt
4. English lexicon has undergone more changes than grammar recently.
5. BBC English and AmE are now giving way to a global version: Globish. Mixing all English versions.
6. Lexically speaking English is said to be the richest in the world now.

To meet the needs of a global language some standard English will continue to be the medium of communication I believe but of course new dialects or registers as you mentioned will develop. The question is: how far can E lexicon develop independently of grammar? Are we going to have a lexical English?
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