The Effects of Lexical and Semantic Change on Modern English

Lexical and Semantic Change on Modern English
Language develops and adapts to different situations, and changes to solve various communication problems and barriers, and is therefore descriptive as opposed to prescriptive. Lexical and Semantic change have affected our language enormously, with new words being introduced and older words either gaining new meanings or disappearing all together from the language.
There are many ways that lexical and semantic development has occurred. In lexical development, new words have been introduced. One person who introduced a large amount of new wor…