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Synchrony and Diachrony of Linguistic Signs

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The contradiction between synchrony and diachrony was revealed in the early twentieth century as the opposition between logical grammar and historical-comparative grammar and between rules and laws.

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Wang, M. (2020). Synchrony and Diachrony of Linguistic Signs. In: Linguistic Semiotics. Peking University Linguistics Research, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3246-7_8

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