Editing Language change (section)

===Syntactic change===
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[[Syntactic change]] is the evolution of the [[syntax|syntactic]] structure of a [[natural language]].

Over time, syntactic change is the greatest modifier of a particular language.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} Massive changes – attributable either to [[creolization]] or to [[relexification]] – may occur both in syntax and in vocabulary. Syntactic change can also be purely language-internal, whether independent within the syntactic component or the eventual result of phonological or morphological change.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}