[Ads-l] Antedating of "Diachronic" (Linguistics)

[Shapiro, Fred]

diachronic (OED, 2., 1927)

1918 _Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods_ 15:55 (JSTOR)

Exposition of the theory of Ferdinand Saussure, according to which "there are two linguistic problems: the synchronic problem, which concerns the states of language, organized systems, and the diachronic problem, which concenrs the transformations of which all parts of language are the theater."

Fred Shapiro

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