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syn·chron·ic
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descriptive linguistics
the study of the description of the internal phonological, grammatical, and semantic structures of languages at given points in time without reference to their histories or to one another -
diachronic
of, relating to, or studying the development of a phenomenon through time; historical -
structural linguistics
a usually synchronic approach to language study in which a language is analyzed as an independent network of formal systems, each of which is composed of elements that are defined in terms of their contrasts with other elements in the system. -
synchronic linguistics
the branch of linguistics that analyzes the structure of a language or languages as static, at a given point in their history