diachronic

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Present
all over
attendance
attendant
be in at the killidiom
bulk
face
front
immanent
immanently
in the fleshidiom
kick
kick around
kill
present
seropositive
sit
sit in
sit through something
synchronically
to someone's faceidiom

Examples of synchronic

synchronic
The data for this study come mainly from electronic corpora, both diachronic and synchronic.
Showing a synchronic similarity in a number of different varieties does not necessarily mean they all underwent similar changes to get there.
As a result, synchronic language structure and diachronic language change reflect psycholinguistic constraints on language processing.
A well-known asymmetry in presence and extent of synchronic spirantization has been observed by a number of authors.
Whether this should be considered a case of synchronic insertion or historical reanalysis is a matter to be addressed in the course of this paper.
Presumably, their theory was that their formulae represent not only historical realities but synchronic realities of some sort as well.
Structure preservation as it applies to phonological change must be distinguished from structure preservation as it applies to a synchronic grammar.
This entailed providing synchronic and monosemous characterizations of be going to and will, capable of accounting satisfactorily for variations in the interpretation of these expressions.
In another view, such events first need to be bundled in a synchronic unity relation.
In sum, we have seen how diachronic bleaching results in synchronic layering in the same functional domain.
Table 1 shows the synchronic frequencies of the different complement types of get.
The anthropological perspective does not refamiliarize the strange but rather increases it, substituting synchronic re-creation for diachronic retrospection.
Here too, emphasis is placed on synchronic, typological factors rather than on residual disputes regarding genetic classification.
Although this sense is rare in the synchronic data, it exists in both intransitive and transitive variants, (28), (30) and (29), (31) respectively.
These differences are, however, largely attributable to the different diachronic trajectories leading to the synchronic agreement patterns.
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