diachronic linguistics

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Origin of diachronic linguistics

First recorded in 1925–30

I realized that this guy, who is on the left edge of politics, has this career in linguistics.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky?|Jimmy So|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The fate of linguistics, therefore, turned on a simple twist of chance.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky?|Jimmy So|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In linguistics, scholars discuss written- versus spoken-language paradigms.
Ben Yagoda: How I Not Write Bad|Noah Charney|February 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But the ambition announced in these pages is not limited to questions of linguistics or anthropology.
Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ and the Birth of Deconstruction|Benoît Peeters|December 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The court held—I think quite sensibly—that the issue turned on substance rather than linguistics.
The Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare: 16 Experts Weigh in|Matthew DeLuca|June 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It becomes the end with linguistics the means, and this is the true relation between them.
The Private Life of the Romans|Harold Whetstone Johnston
Our needs lie in the direction of the natural sciences rather than in the direction of history and linguistics.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various
“Phonetic laws” make up a large and fundamental share of the subject-matter of linguistics.
Language|Edward Sapir
Had not a "universal religion" better let linguistics alone?
Bahaism and Its Claims|Samuel Graham Wilson
Knowing of Bayne's hobby for linguistics, the oculist jocularly turned these archaic curios over to him.
The Ordeal|Charles Egbert Craddock