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diachronic Definition

dia·chron·ic (dī′ə krän′ik)

adjective

of or concerned with the study of changes occurring over a period of time, as in language, mores, etc.

Etymology: dia- + chronic

diachronic Related Forms
di′a·chron′i·cally adverb
diachronic Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • linguistics: Leech, Geoffrey ( 2000 ) Diachronic linguistics across a generation gap: from the 1960s to the 1990s.
  • corpus: A diachronic corpus with English texts from different periods was compiled at the University of Helsinki.
  • syntax: In my work on diachronic syntax, I am looking at the grammaticalization of English raising predicates.
  • perspective: Variation in Pennsylvania German syntax: a diachronic perspective.
  • dimension: The very salient assumption in the study is that of ' diachronic dimension ' .
  • mode: In my view, values arise from karma, the diachronic mode.