Introduction to the History of English language

 Definitions

These concepts written below were explained in class, and these are their definitions:  

 
   Synchronic  adj.  Relating to a language as it is at a particular point in time.

 

2005. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 7^th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1^st edition 1948.

 

·        Diachronic  adj. Relating to the way a language has developed over time.

 

2005. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 7^th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1^st edition 1948.

 

·        Layperson  noun  A person who does not have expert knowledge of a particular subject.

 

2005. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 7^th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1^st edition 1948.

   

          Shibboleth  noun  A custom, word, etc. That distinguishes one group of people from another.

2005. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 7^th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1^st edition 1948.

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