diachronic linguistics

Historical linguistics or diachronic linguistics, the study of language change over time.

Also called diachronic linguistics.

Light verbs are interesting to linguists from a variety of perspectives, including those of diachronic linguistics and computational linguistics.

Ferdinand de Saussure's distinction between synchronic and diachronic linguistics is fundamental to the present day organization of the discipline.

(Sometimes the terms diachronic linguistics and synchronic linguistics are used to refer to these two perspectives.)

He taught classes on Slavic languages, diachronic linguistics, the occult and vampires, and courses such as "How to be a Spy."

Primacy is accorded to synchronic linguistics, and diachronic linguistics is defined as the study of successive synchronic stages.

Digraphia can be either "synchronic" (or "concurrent") or "diachronic" ("historical" or "sequential"), extending Ferdinand de Saussure's classic division between synchronic linguistics and diachronic linguistics.

The study of language change is also referred to as "diachronic linguistics", which can be distinguished from "synchronic linguistics", the study of a given language at a given moment in time without regard to its previous stages.

It is only through their written forms that we know anything at all about certain languages, and the written forms of others serve to confirm the findings of diachronic linguistics in positing the pronunciation and sources of long-dead tongues.

The distinction can be useful in diachronic linguistics, as conditional sound changes often act differently on acute and grave consonants, consonants are highly likely to preserve their acuteness/graveness through sound change; and changes between acute and grave can often be well circumscribed.