diachronic architecture
Introduction
Diachrony is opposed to synchrony, a dimension that allows us to observe any phenomenon – for example cultural, such as linguistic – as it is at a given moment in its evolution. This is how this opposition between synchrony (which studies multiple events occurring at the same time) and diachrony (which studies the same event over time) would be understood.
Although valid in all theoretical schools and in all scientific disciplines the distinction diachrony and synchrony is made from Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, such binomial dialectic has been taken up especially by the structuralist school "Structuralism (linguistics)").
In linguistics
In linguistics, the term diachrony refers to the study of language throughout its evolution, that is, historically, investigating the various linguistic changes of the language from its origin to the current moment.
Thus, diachronic linguistics of Spanish (traditionally called historical grammar of Spanish) deals, among other things, with the reconstruction of proto-Castilian, ancient Castilian, with important phonological changes such as the readjustment of sibilants in the Spanish language (which distanced the language from other Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula such as Portuguese or Catalan), and with successive changes that have given rise to the different varieties of Spanish as they are today.
In anthropology and history
In anthropology, the term diachrony was adopted by the French structuralist current "Structuralism (linguistics)"). Claude Lévi-Strauss had known the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, creator of the theoretical dyad diachrony-synchrony. From there he took it up in approximately the same sense that is used in linguistics.
In historiography, the diachronic perspective is the most common, which presents the evolution of historical events or processes over historical time (see historiography).
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