'linguistic changes' is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe any changes in language over time, such as the introduction of new words or the evolution of existing words. For example, you could say: "Recent linguistic changes, such as the widespread use of 'texting language', have had a profound effect on the way people communicate."
It preserves a number of archaisms not present in the other three Kartvelian tongues, although it also has a number of independent linguistic changes.
Both Laz and Mingrelian have made a number of linguistic changes in comparison to Georgian and Svan, which are relatively conservative in both their grammatical and phonological characteristics.
Researchers analyzed large databases of text and looked at how linguistic changes in gender and ethnic stereotypes correlated with social movements and shifts in U.S. Census data.
It is based on a series of case studies which treat a set of linguistic changes that took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The first to teach Persian as a living language, Modern Persian incorporates the most effective methodologies and the most recent cultural and linguistic changes occurring in Iran.
Linguistic changes of this sort are conceivable in English in a way they are not in the romance languages, where each noun -- hat, chair, arm, leg -- is assigned a gender from the start.
It was the principal achievement of the 19th-century linguists not only to realize more clearly than their predecessors the ubiquity of linguistic change but also to put its scientific investigation on a sound footing by means of the comparative method (see above History of linguistics: The 19th century).
Linguistic change is also often resisted on aesthetic grounds.
The basic cause of dialectal differentiation is linguistic change.
Long placed outside the mainstream of linguistic change, they strongly retain their ancient forms.
Here various kinds, or categories, of linguistic change will be listed and exemplified.
