synchronic linguistics การใช้

• Many scholars took up this kind of research following Greenberg's example and it remains important in synchronic linguistics.
• Greenberg's reputation rests in part on his contributions to synchronic linguistics and the quest to identify linguistic universals.
• He was an early champion of synchronic linguistics, the study of contemporary spoken languages, which he developed contemporaneously with the " langue " and " parole ".
• In practice, a purely synchronic linguistics is not possible for any period before the invention of the sociolinguists on linguistic variation has shown synchronic states are not uniform : the speech habits of older and younger speakers differ in ways that point to language change.
• If so one could argue that a project which focuses on the " final " version of the languages ( rather than their evolution through ages of imaginary time ) would differ significantly from Tolkien's own perspective : The focus would shift from diachronic to synchronic linguistics.
• Although undoubtedly a " masterpiece " that " shows what it was like to be linguistically aware before a new race of synchronic linguistic giants appeared, " the book remains " a fossil all the same, and an enduring monument to all that was linguistically acceptable in the standard English of the southern counties of England in the first quarter of the 20th century ."