What is Synchronic
and Diachronic?
In aspects of language study,
there are 2 kinds of the aspects. There are The Synchronic and Diachronic
Aspects. In (Wikipedia) the Synchrony and Diachronic are two different and
complementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis:
- A diachronic approach considers the development and evolution of a language through history. The word is built on the Ancient Greek words δια "through" and χρόνος "time". Historical linguistics is typically a diachronic study.
- A synchronic approach considers a language without taking its history into account. The word is built on the Ancient Greek words συν "with" and χρόνος "time". Synchronic linguistics aims at describing language rules at a specific point of time, even though they may have been different at an earlier stage of the language. School grammar typically uses a synchronic (as well as prescriptive) approach.