Ranjan Sen
For over a century, the relative importance of synchrony and diachrony in understanding a language’s grammar has been debated. In phonology, the life-cycle model (e.g. Bermúdez-Otero 2015) offers an amphichronic solution to key questions, incorporating loci for neogrammarian and lexically diffused change, and types of morphological analogy, through the insight that sound changes themselves have […]