SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY IN HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES

Synchrony and Diachrony

Complex Predicates in Dutch Synchrony and Diachrony

Mundurukú: Phonetics, Phonology, Synchrony, Diachrony

......................................................................................................................................... ii

Local Adverbs in Hittite: Synchrony and Diachrony

Words expressing spatial relationships in Hittite are synchronically adverbs, not case forms of nouns as sometimes alleged. They are attested in three distinct syntactic roles: postpositions, preverbs, and freestanding adverbs. Some of these local adverbs are inherited from Proto-Indo-European, while others reflect petrified case forms of nouns. Postpositions from inherited local adverbs origin...

Modelling Synchrony and Diachrony of DOM in Stochastic OT