diachronic linguistics.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Through what they called the "diachronic" they studied the evolution of a language; and through what they called the "synchronic" they observed the systemic theory of language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Simple] Reference

Symbols phonemic notation becomes, goes to (diachronic shift).    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

In his own audit, he identifies a habit that feels diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference

Are you sure this comment violates TPM's Terms of Service? diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Issues New Orders On Afghanistan] Reference

In contemporary terms, his focus was synchronic rather than diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anton Marty] Reference

Nineteenth-century linguistics had considered mainly the diachronic aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference

And diachronic polyandry, a woman that has a child with one man after another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Surplus of Males and Runaway (with the Bride-Price) Brides:] Reference

We now turn, more briefly, to unified consciousness over time (diachronic unity).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

Cole, P. (1975) The synchronic and diachronic status of conversational implicature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Implicature] Reference

If so, diachronic unity is not sufficient for personal identity (Brook 1994, Ch. 8).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

But he also made use of the diachronic model according to which the necessity of p at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Modality] Reference

Boethius developed the diachronic ideas as part of his criticism of Stoic determinism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Modality] Reference

The amnesia in diachronic DID has this character, clearly, but so does synchronic DID.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

Like most linguistics in the twentieth century it is synchronic rather than diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference

What the retention crucial to diachronic unity consists in is a matter of some interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

It can, perhaps, therefore, break the stalemate which faces the debate over diachronic identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dualism] Reference

The principle encapsulates a certain demand for ˜diachronic coherence™ imposed by rationality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interpretations of Probability] Reference

The first distinction to note is that between synchronic and diachronic conceptions of reductionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reductionism in Biology] Reference

Allegorical narra - tive yields a fixated image of change, in which time is synchronic, never diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Hence, they focus entirely on diachronic relationships between matter in pre - and post-complexity stages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emergent Properties] Reference

As one branch of postmodernists would observe, it privileges "synchronic meaning" over "diachronic meaning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: 'Retrograde' theology?] Reference

What this distinction misses is the possibility of diachronic aspects of part-whole or inter-level relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reductionism in Biology] Reference

One can sympathize with Parfit about diachronic unity and yet have reservations about Nagel on synchronic unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

The pathways metaphor incorporates both diachronic and synchronic elements into our conceptualization of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphors for history] Reference

They are apt to give the impression that identity comes in two kinds, synchronic and diachronic: a serious blunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Identity] Reference

Bovens, Luc (1995) "˜P and I will believe that not-P™: diachronic constraints on rational belief", Mind, 104/416.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference

A useful way of making this point invokes Segal's (1996) idea of diachronic modularity (see also Scholl & Leslie, 1999).    From Wordnik.com.  [Modularity of Mind] Reference

A diachronic Dutch Book is a Dutch Book combination of wagers that one will be motivated to enter into at different times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference

The power of this article is instantly apparent to any careful student of diachronic linguistics and evolutionary biology.    From Wordnik.com.  [More use, less change] Reference

Likewise, one should distinguish the question of whether diachronic unity can be intransitive from the question discussed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

Some important philosophers have urged that memory-carried diachronic unity is not sufficient for being one person over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

If he has to allow certain evils to produce me, then doesn't he have to allow certain diachronic evils to produce the final good?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The essential "I"] Reference

Unity and reduction may be introduced along the following distinctions: epistemological and ontological, synchronic and diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Science] Reference

Susceptibility to the Müller-Lyer illusion, theory-neutral observation, and the diachronic penetrability of the visual input system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modularity of Mind] Reference

The first diachronic Dutch Book Argument in support of a principle of conditionalization was reported by Teller, who credited David Lewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference

In Hartley's theory, the associations in a complex action or idea are synchronic, while the associations in a decomplex action or idea are diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Hartley] Reference

If so, however, the issue becomes once again one of diachronic non-identity, with all that it entails, and it is not obvious that we have a counterexample to (29).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

Pi (S/T); and how to construct a diachronic Dutch Book against anyone who, on learning only that T, would predictably change his/her degree of belief in S to Pf (S).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference