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diachronism|daɪˈækrənɪz(ə)m|
[f. as diachronic a.: see -ism.]
1. Geol. The existence of a geological feature that transgresses palæontological zones (see quot. 1929).
1926W. B. Wright in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1926 354 (title) Stratigraphical diachronism in the millstone grit of Lancashire. 1929L. J. Wills Physiographical Evol. Brit. xiv. 164 The sediments.. do not represent the deposits of a given epoch of time... There is a great divergence between the lithological and chronological classification. This is another example of diachronism. 1966D. T. Donovan Stratigr. v. 119 It is likely..that diachronism is the rule, not the exception, for formations.
2. Linguistics. A diachronic method of linguistic study; diachronic treatment.
1962Y. Malkiel in Householder & Saporta Problems in Lexicography i. 15 The fundamental dimension (diachronism versus synchronism).
So diachroˈnistic a.; diachroˈnistically adv.
1933Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. XLVIII. 616 The diachronistic investigation of the great linguists of the nineteenth century. 1951S. Ullmann Princ. Semantics i. 36 It is not language that is synchronistic or diachronistic, but the approach to it, the method of investigation, the science of language. 1957Archivum Linguisticum IX. 26 The term langue should be applied only to a language considered diachronistically. |