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Examples ofMorphological ChangeInflectional Change:Old English: nama (name) had differentendings for case (e.g., naman in the dativecase).Modern English: Case endings are largelygone, replaced by prepositions (e.g., of thename).1.Regularization of Irregular Forms:Old English: Past tense of help was holp.Modern English: The past tense becameregularized to helped2.Loss of Morphological Complexity:Old English had grammatical genderfor nouns, but Modern English hasno such gender distinctions.3.Creation of New Words ThroughDerivation:The word unfriend (meaning toremove someone as a friend onsocial media) developed in the digitalage through the prefix un- added tofriend.4.
