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panchronic, a. Linguistics.|pænˈkrɒnɪk| [tr. F. panchronique (F. de Saussure a 1913, in Cours de Linguistique générale (1916) i. iii. 138), f. pan- 2 + chronic a.] Pertaining to or designating linguistic study applied to all languages at all stages of their development. Also panchroˈnistic a. Hence panˈchronically adv.; ˈpanchrony.
1931Amer. Jrnl. Philol. LII. 79 Scientific grammar must be based on a combination of ideo(syn)chrony and panchrony. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 24 The components of such a panchronic grammar, which may technically be termed general grammar, will be few in number. 1949Archivum Linguisticum I. ii. 127 On the panchronistic plane, there is the usual argument of the complete diversity of words for the same idea in different languages. 1951S. Ullmann Princ. Semantics v. 261 He [sc. de Saussure] did admit the possibility of ‘panchronistic laws’ resembling the universal regularities of natural science, e.g. the ubiquitousness of sound-change. 1952Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 659/3 A final chapter, devoted to panchronistic or general semantics, is merely a programmatic sketch. 1957Archivum Linguisticum IX. ii. 81 Finally, hyper- and hypocharacterization may be used panchronically. 1964Ibid. XVI. i. 23 Clusters so shaped may panchronically tend to undergo just this development. 1966M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. 192 Panchronic grammar, applicable to all languages and at all historical stages of their development. 1969Eng. Stud. L. 417 General phonetics is by definition synchronic, or rather panchronic. Ibid. 422 Comparatism was supposed..to lead to diachrony, not to the establishment of common, general features of language, to panchrony. 1974R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. 4 The panchronic approach treats those aspects of language for which the passage of time is not relevant. 1978Language LIV. 238/2 In Chapter V, he treats ‘Lingua, stile, dialetti’..from a primarily panchronic point of view. |