Traditional Linguistcs

Diachronic means across-time, and it describes any work which maps the shifts and fractures and mutations of languages over the centuries.

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Synchronic literally means with-time.

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Traditional grammar is not a framework for the description of the structure of a language.

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Traditional grammar refers to the type of grammar study done prior to the beginnings of modern linguistics.

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A person who dictates how people should write or speak is called a prescriptivist or a prescriptive grammarian.

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Prescriptive grammar describes when people focus on talking about how a language should or should not be used.

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The origin of speech refers to the more general problem of the origin of language in the context of the physiological development of the human speech organs.

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The study of linguistics has often been divided into synchronic and diachronic linguistic.

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The synchrony proposed a form of analysis based on the consideration of language as a system composed of elements that are related to each other and form a structure.

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The structuralist theory of language was introduced by Noam Chomsky.

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