Syntactic change

In the field of linguistics, syntactic change is change in the syntactic structure of a natural language. In the field of linguistics, syntactic change is change in the syntactic structure of a natural language. If one regards a language as vocabulary within a particular syntax (with functional items maintaining the basic structure of a sentence and with the lexical items filling in the blanks), syntactic change plays the greatest role in modifying the physiognomy of a particular language. Syntactic change affects grammar in its morphological and syntactic aspects and is one of the types of change observed in language change.