VDict - Definition of diachronic linguistics

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diachronic historical ferdinand de saussure de saussure saussure prescriptivism descriptivism major derivation rask rasmus christian rask linguistic competence chomsky noam chomsky a. noam chomsky bloomfield leonard bloomfield feature of speech neurolinguistics neurolinguist panini computational linguist complementary distribution linguistic universal structural linguistics participant role semantic role phoneme vedanga zellig harris zellig sabbatai harris linguistics department linguistic rule department of linguistics lexicology generative grammar prescriptive grammar descriptive grammar allophone aphaeresis complementation morphophoneme grammar apheresis root word cognitive science linguistic scientist linguistic performance phylum linguist postposition deriving etymologizing play up computational structuralism linguistics topicalization foreground preposition linguistically cartesian synchronic spotlight derivative highlight harris comparative theme feature stem universal root radical voice tone rule base