In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many phonetic, syntactic, and semantic changes.

Diachronic corpora can be used to study the time course of syntactic change.

Because of this, there are some major syntactic changes, especially related to the elimination of ambiguous identifiers and the addition of .

In the field of linguistics, syntactic change is the evolution of the syntax, or structure, of a natural spoken language.

Instead, the verb has undergone a syntactic change to "went", a borrowing from the past tense of the verb "to wend".

Over time, syntactic change is usually the greatest modifier of a particular language.

His PhD dissertation described syntactic change in spoken Brazilian Portuguese.

Although Sampson himself does not point to independent evidence or hypotheses about syntactic change, what he suggests coheres well with the speculations of Chung (1977).

Other notable syntactic changes in Quebec French include the following:

As expected, she found that subjects were very accurate at distinguishing a sentence they had only just heard from similar sentences with semantic or syntactic changes.