Language History and Change

Language history and change Philology (语言文献学)investigates the features of older

languages, and the ways in which they developed into modern languages. It’s about the study of language history and change in written records. Historical linguistics (历史语言学) is concerned with both the description and explanation of language changes that occurred over time. Because of its focus on historical development (diachronic analysis), philology came to be used as a term contrasting with linguistics. This is due to a 20th-century development triggered by Ferdinand de Saussure’s insistence on the importance of synchronic analysis.

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