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historical linguistics

NOUN
  1. the study of linguistic change
    the synchrony and diachrony of language

How To Use historical linguistics In A Sentence

  • Drawing on data from biological anthropology, historical linguistics, and archaeology, he attempts an etic examination of the processes of formation of ethnic groups in the Japanese islands between 400 BC and the medieval era.
  • Undoubtedly, the most influential school of historical linguistics is that of the Neogrammarians, one of the main spokesmen being Hermann Paul.
  • There are few, too few, working linguists who have a good command of the various subdisciplines of the field, such as psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, theory of grammar, etc.
  • Regarding the second principle, the lessons of historical linguistics and dialectology provide the strongest arguments available for the linguistic validity of U.S. Spanish.
  • The basic category historical linguistics deals with is that of the language family.
  • Thus, the methodology of historical linguistics has been abused to support an ahistorical, if not positively antihistorical, model of a Great and Glorious Past. Languagehat.com: "PARADIGM SHIFTS" IN LINGUISTICS.
  • Virtually every book and paper on historical linguistics assumes a hierarchical classification.
  • As a consequence of their work, 20th-century etymology is part of historical linguistics.
  • This paper aims at analyzing the relationship between the Arabian writing system and Islamic culture from the perspective of the historical linguistics.
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