The former gives anthropologists' synchronic understanding a diachronic flourish.
If confirmed by studies of other variables, this result could be useful for the study of grammaticization processes in the absence of diachronic evidence.
I think linguists with an interest in diachronic syntax will surely benefit from reading this book.
The results of diachronic change are encoded in the child's mind, due to the temporal limits of the input.
The data for this study come mainly from electronic corpora, both diachronic and synchronic.
The diachronic part gave an analysis of how the polysemy in get arose in terms of various reanalyses and the mechanisms driving them.
As a result, synchronic language structure and diachronic language change reflect psycholinguistic constraints on language processing.
The text of the book concludes with discussion of some sociolinguistic and diachronic issues.
