| Lemma | diachronic dialectology |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Weinreich (1954) |
| Titolo | "Is a Structural Dialectology Possible?" |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | dialectology (inglese) divergence vs. convergence (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | DIACHRONIC DIALECTOLOGY deals (a) with DIVERGENCE, i.e it studies the growth of partial differences at the expense of similarities and possibly reconstructs earlier stages of greater similarity (traditionally, comparative linguistics); (b) with CONVERGENCE, i.e. it studies partial similarities increasing at the expense of differences (traditionally, substratum and adstratum studies, "bilingual dialectology", and the like). |