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Diachronic meaning
Occurring over or changing with time. | Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.
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Diachronic mechanisms Comparative historical linguistics studies the evolutions languages and takes a diachronic view of the lexicon.
Although the city is situated opposite the mouth of the Main river, the name of Mainz is not from Main, the similarity being perhaps due to diachronic analogy.
An overview of diachronic work on Canadian English, or diachronically-relevant work, is Dollinger (2012).
As an example for Diachronic analysis : One of his most important inventions, is without doubt, the parachute, which he experimented and tested on himself, by jumping off a bridge in Venice.
At the same time, in order that there be movement, or potential, the origin cannot be some pure unity or simplicity, but must already be articulated—complex—such that from it a "diachronic" process can emerge.
He argued that to investigate the determinants of social capital, one has to integrate the synchronic and the diachronic perspectives under the guidance of a methodological framework able to put these two approaches in continuity.
Historically, the evolution of the Tocharian vowels was the last part of the diachronic phonology to be understood.
The linguistics of the time was overwhelmingly neogrammarian and insisted that the only scientific study of language was to study the history and development of words across time (the diachronic approach, in Saussure's terms ).
Vol. 1: A Synchronic View, Vol. 2: A Diachronic View.