Conlang/Intermediate/History/Grammar changes

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Intermediate/History
Grammar changes

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Etymology
 

Grammar changes are when a part of the grammar of a language changes over time, so that the language now has a different way of accomplishing the same thing. For example, when French evolved from Latin it did not have a fixed word order, while it now does; much information that in Latin was conveyed by use of case, is conveyed by word order in modern French.

  • parva mensa rufa non est.
  • la petite table n'est pas rouge.
  • the little table isn't red.
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