单词 | historical linguistics |
释义 | historical linguistics in British Englishnoun (functioning as singular) the study of language as it changes in the course of time, with a view either to discovering general principles of linguistic change or to establishing the correct genealogical classification of particular languages Also called: diachronic linguistics. Compare descriptive linguisticshistorical linguistics in American English the branch of linguistics that deals with language changes over a period of time |
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