Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics.
Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, furth...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2011.
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| Series: | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
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| Summary: | Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, further, they can also recognize the hybrid nature of synchrony, which is referred to as ""dynamic synchrony."" This conception of synchrony assumes that similar patterns of usage can coexist in a community during a certain period and that their mutual relations are not static but conflicting enough to r. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027272157 9027272158 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |