Definitions for historical linguistics
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1. historical linguistics, diachronic linguistics, diachronynoun

   the study of linguistic change

   "the synchrony and diachrony of language"

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1. historical linguisticsnoun

   The scientific study of language change.

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1. Historical linguistics

   Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages to reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness, grouping them into language families (comparative linguistics) to develop general theories about how and why language changes to describe the history of speech communities to study the history of words, i.e. etymology Historical linguistics is founded on the Uniformitarian Principle, which is defined by linguist Donald Ringe as: Unless we can demonstrate significant changes in the conditions of language acquisition and use between some time in the unobservable past and the present, we must assume that the same types and distributions of structures, variation, changes, etc. existed at that time in the past as in the present.

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1. historical linguistics

   Historical linguistics is a branch of linguistics which focuses on studying the evolution and development of languages over time. It involves analyzing changes in language structures, sound systems, grammar, semantics, and vocabulary, often through the comparison of older and contemporary stages of specific languages or language families. It also explores language change due to various cultural, geographical, and social factors, and tries to reconstruct extinct languages or trace back the origins of existing languages.

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1. Historical linguistics

   Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns: ⁕to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages ⁕to reconstruct the pre-history of languages and determine their relatedness, grouping them into language families ⁕to develop general theories about how and why language changes ⁕to describe the history of speech communities ⁕to study the history of words, i.e. etymology.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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