LANGUAGE EVOLUTION AND LANGUAGE ECONOMY
Keywords:
the principle of economy, qualitative reduction, tendency to redundancy, cognitive categories, linguistic compression, loss of aspirationAbstract
Language economy is a universal category inherent in all languages of the world, characterized by the desire to save energy, avoid excessive expenditure of physiological and psychological effort when using speech and manifests itself at all levels of the language system. The principle of economy is expressed in the creation and perception of language elements with minimal effort and can be considered one of the reasons for language changes.
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