The facets of diachrony

Modelling diachrony in dictionaries

Introduction : The variety of lexical structures Lexical data appear in a wide variety of forms. These can range from basic morpho-syntactic structures (Romary et al., 2004) intended to be used in language engineering application to important editorial projects that cover multiple levels of lexicographic description: morphological information, syntactic constructs, sense related information (de...

Morphological Universals and Diachrony

Although linguistics is plausibly taken to be “the science of language,” the actual object of inquiry in the field has changed considerably over time. Prior to the influence of deSaussure in the first part of the twentieth century, linguists concerned themselves primarily with the ways in which languages have developed historically. For the next several decades, they devoted their attention to ...

The diachrony of Mapudungun stress assignment

Stress assignment is one of the most widely-known and controversial aspects of present-day Mapudungun (aka Araucanian) phonology. Here, the diachrony of the phenomenon is explored based on the available written record spanning 1606–1936. Having surveyed these sparse but suggestive data, and contrasted them with present-day evidence, we suggest four distinct stages of development. Ultimately, we...

Synchrony and Diachrony

Mundurukú: Phonetics, Phonology, Synchrony, Diachrony

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