[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Diachronic"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Oct 16 14:26:41 UTC 2024


diachronic (OED, 2., 1927)

1917 The Year's Work in Classical Studies 1916, page 35 (Google Books)

In the study of language there are two possible methods: (a) the historical, followed by Bopp and his successors; (b) the dogmatic, which simply describes the language as it appears at a particular moment. These are called respectively the diachronic and the synchronic methods.

Fred Shapiro

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