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    Diachronic linguistics studies how language changes over time by examining how words change in meaning, form, syntax, etc. between centuries. Synchronic linguistics examines how elements of a language work together within a single time period to convey meaning and studies word connotations and usage rather than change. While diachronic linguistics looks at historical changes, synchronic linguistics provides a snapshot of the language system at a moment in time.

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    Diachronic linguistics studies how language changes over time by examining how words change in meaning, form, syntax, etc. between centuries. Synchronic linguistics examines how elements of a language work together within a single time period to convey meaning and studies word connotations and usage rather than change. While diachronic linguistics looks at historical changes, synchronic linguistics provides a snapshot of the language system at a moment in time.

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    Diachronic linguistics studies how language changes over time by examining how words change in meaning, form, syntax, etc. between centuries. Synchronic linguistics examines how elements of a language work together within a single time period to convey meaning and studies word connotations and usage rather than change. While diachronic linguistics looks at historical changes, synchronic linguistics provides a snapshot of the language system at a moment in time.

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    Difference between Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistics

    Diachronic Linguistics Synchronic Linguistics


    Study of change in language Study of the elements and usage
    over time. of a language at a particular
    moment.
    Study of words as they change Study of words as they work
    meaning, inflection, syntax, form together in the same time
    etc. frame.
    Word’s meaning changes from In Synchronic linguistics ‘Pot’
    one century to the next. means a cooking utensil, but at
    the same time it also means
    Marijuana, and the ‘chips to be
    competed for in a poker game.’
    This type of linguistics explains Synchronic linguistics explains
    how ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ changed how words get their connotation
    to ‘you’ or why some words like 'Cop', ‘Police officer’,
    contracted like ‘won’t’ and ‘Flatfoot’, ‘Fuzz’.
    ‘Can’t’, or why the syntax of
    noun and modifier is different in
    English and French.
    Diachronic linguistics studies Synchronic linguist compares
    Chaucer and Shakespeare for Hemingway’s use of modifiers
    their contributions to the (adjectives and adverbs) and
    growth of the English language. Joyce’s attempts to exhaust the
    English language.

    Saussure believed that a good synchronic approach made a diachronic approach


    unnecessary. He explained with the example of chess. As a chess game
    progresses, the value of a piece changes according to its location (which is
    example of diachronic). But using a synchronic approach, it can be understand
    that how pieces interacting at a given time, according to the chess rules. Recent
    theorists acknowledge the benefits of this approach.

    In further explanation, a diachronic analysis shows the evolution of the game,


    that how pieces changes their values as time passes. The synchronic analysis
    focus on the interaction of the pieces which explains the rules of the game in
    other words.

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