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单词 diachronic
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Definition of diachronic in English:

diachronic

adjective ˌdʌɪəˈkrɒnɪkˌdaɪəˈkrɑnɪk
  • Concerned with the way in which something, especially language, has developed and evolved through time.

    (尤指语言)历时的。常与SYNCHRONIC 相对

    the census is also a diachronic data set
    Often contrasted with synchronic
    linguistic change is the diachronic aspect of linguistic variation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Utilizing both a diachronic and synchronic analysis, one can note the respective contexts and then further describe how these synchronic tensions have served readers of a collection.
    • However, if a thematic rather than diachronic approach is chosen, historical events have to be recapitulated to explain the setting of individual subjects.
    • The diachronic study of language, or study of the structure of language over a period of time, prevailed over the synchronic study of language, or study of language at a moment in time.
    • Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns.
    • In addition to placing English in a diachronic chain of invader-turned-native languages, Rao argues for an Indian English in a synchronic relation with American English and Irish English.
    • The distinction between ritual and ceremony as pointed out by Alan Wald can then be analysed from a diachronic and a synchronic point of view.
    • The relation between the selves is synchronic, not diachronic; it is also a relation of chiasmic exchange, like that between eye and text, or voice and ear.
    • What is missing from such an approach is a diachronic perspective that can explain how this distribution evolved.
    • The strands of causation comprising this web, as I have termed it, interact with one another in time: there is a diachronic and contingent aspect to causation that must be accounted for.
    • It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world.
    • The relationship between these optimistic and pessimistic strains can be seen, in diachronic terms, as a struggle for ideological dominance throughout the nineteenth century.
    • Again, all of this was fundamental to the epistemological changes by which Western natural science was established, and the reorganization of attention in the 19th century thus had deep diachronic roots.
    • In essence, then, Steck calls for both a diachronic and synchronic reading of Isaiah.
    • ‘Romanticism’ is the interpretive sense we make of Romantic-era literature by means of diachronic and synchronic narratives.
    • This definition exemplifies the turn towards a more diachronic and sociological focus in textual scholarship, and offers a conceptual rubric marked by bibliographic and theoretical rigour.
    • Garin approached history in the diachronic mode, paying special attention to dynamism and change, and seeking to illuminate the relationship between particular origins and particular outcomes.
    • But, unfortunately, economics isn't good at diachronic comparisons (ones between points in time), for much the same reason as it hasn't been very good with such things as the environment.
    • Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
    • From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.
    • Though let me stress that what I have offered here is not an expert opinion; I have done no serious quantitative work on this topic, and I have no real expertise in diachronic lexical semantics.

Derivatives

  • diachroneity

  • nounˌdʌɪəkrəˈniːɪtiˌdʌɪəkrəˈneɪɪti
    • Often, however (assuming accuracy of the data), they pose more problems than they solve, and bear witness to major diachroneity of otherwise similar events.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The diachroneity is so great that widely separated upper St. Lawrence-Jordan Sandstone sections can have no overlap in age.
      • In spite of the global diachroneity of some graptolite species it should still be possible accurately to define a base for the Upper Ordovician at the base of the Caradoc Series.
      • The lithostratigraphic correlation between the two units appears to be very good, although biostratigraphic resolution is inadequate to assess the degree of diachroneity.
      • The demonstrable geographic variability and diachroneity of the Ordovician diversifications imposes limitations on the level of analysis possible with synoptic databases.
  • diachronically

  • adverbdʌɪəˈkrɒnɪk(ə)liˌdaɪəˈkrɑnək(ə)li
    • Each can be studied synchronically or diachronically and the order in which they have been dealt with within a grammar has fluctuated over the years.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In extending the lesson given us through our redactor-as-author to other texts, we can hope to avoid treating certain texts only diachronically or synchronically.
      • The study's argument is shaped diachronically, early versus late Austen, but the contrast is not mechanically developmental.
      • Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
      • The spatial separation of these informational elements, however, requires that their connection happen diachronically through time rather than synchronically, or at a single point within time.
  • diachronistic

  • adjectivedʌɪˌakrəˈnɪstɪk
    • The objects selected for reconstruction are ‘physical realities’ originating from different periods in time and are brought together in a diachronistic situation linked by the processes of research, production and placement (this differs from a merely curatorial practice).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The diachronistic but yet synchronistic observation of different political structures (from states and empires of the antiquity via India to the United States of America) makes it clear that constitution is much more than a body of laws and that a national community is never a mere community of law but always a community of values too.
      • It considers work in progress in the field of diachronistic linguistics, providing a snapshot of the discipline at the time the conference was held.
      • One might, for instance, have considered the changing popularity of biblical (as opposed to hagiographical or even secular) imagery in general, assessed diachronistic patterns in the relative popularity of individual subjects, and examined the iconographic evolution of particularly important ones.
  • diachrony

  • noundʌɪˈakrənidaɪˈækrəni
    • Levinas, also, describes the relationship with the other as time: ‘it is an untotalizable diachrony in which one moment pursues another without ever being able to retrieve it, to catch up with, or coincide with it’ (‘Dialogue’ 21).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Correlation of the two regions (Wales and Spain) is achieved by ammonite biostratigraphy; however, the correlation is complicated by diachrony in the ammonite zones, especially around the Pliensbachian / Toarcian boundary.
      • The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality.
      • The enactment of masochistic desire is a performance of history, and masochism is a synchronic enactment of diachrony.
      • Enough of diachrony vs. synchrony for this posting.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from dia- 'through' + Greek khronos 'time' + -ic.

Definition of diachronic in US English:

diachronic

adjectiveˌdaɪəˈkrɑnɪkˌdīəˈkränik
  • Concerned with the way in which something, especially language, has developed and evolved through time.

    (尤指语言)历时的。常与SYNCHRONIC 相对

    the census is also a diachronic data set
    Often contrasted with synchronic
    linguistic change is the diachronic aspect of linguistic variation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
    • Utilizing both a diachronic and synchronic analysis, one can note the respective contexts and then further describe how these synchronic tensions have served readers of a collection.
    • Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns.
    • Again, all of this was fundamental to the epistemological changes by which Western natural science was established, and the reorganization of attention in the 19th century thus had deep diachronic roots.
    • From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.
    • Garin approached history in the diachronic mode, paying special attention to dynamism and change, and seeking to illuminate the relationship between particular origins and particular outcomes.
    • In essence, then, Steck calls for both a diachronic and synchronic reading of Isaiah.
    • But, unfortunately, economics isn't good at diachronic comparisons (ones between points in time), for much the same reason as it hasn't been very good with such things as the environment.
    • The relationship between these optimistic and pessimistic strains can be seen, in diachronic terms, as a struggle for ideological dominance throughout the nineteenth century.
    • The distinction between ritual and ceremony as pointed out by Alan Wald can then be analysed from a diachronic and a synchronic point of view.
    • However, if a thematic rather than diachronic approach is chosen, historical events have to be recapitulated to explain the setting of individual subjects.
    • What is missing from such an approach is a diachronic perspective that can explain how this distribution evolved.
    • In addition to placing English in a diachronic chain of invader-turned-native languages, Rao argues for an Indian English in a synchronic relation with American English and Irish English.
    • The strands of causation comprising this web, as I have termed it, interact with one another in time: there is a diachronic and contingent aspect to causation that must be accounted for.
    • It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world.
    • Though let me stress that what I have offered here is not an expert opinion; I have done no serious quantitative work on this topic, and I have no real expertise in diachronic lexical semantics.
    • The relation between the selves is synchronic, not diachronic; it is also a relation of chiasmic exchange, like that between eye and text, or voice and ear.
    • ‘Romanticism’ is the interpretive sense we make of Romantic-era literature by means of diachronic and synchronic narratives.
    • This definition exemplifies the turn towards a more diachronic and sociological focus in textual scholarship, and offers a conceptual rubric marked by bibliographic and theoretical rigour.
    • The diachronic study of language, or study of the structure of language over a period of time, prevailed over the synchronic study of language, or study of language at a moment in time.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from dia- ‘through’ + Greek khronos ‘time’ + -ic.

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