释义 |
ˌproto-ˈdiasystem Linguistics. [f. proto- + diasystem (1954), f. Gr. διά through + system.] A hypothetical reconstruction of the system of linguistic relationships in a proto-language (see also quot. 1969).
1964Word XX. 376 If I use the term proto-language for a reconstruction and proto-dialect for the real speech, my implication is that the reconstruction is in fact a proto-diasystem. 1968Language XLIV. 485 Proto-languages are to be understood as proto-dia-systems, with over-all sets of correspondences between related linguistic structures. 1969S. P. Durham Computer in Reconstruction of Proto-Diasystem: Franco-Provençal I. i. 14 Since a diasystem is a combination into one single descriptive statement of the features of several dialects viewed horizontally, a proto-diasystem can be considered a combination into one single statement of the features of several dialects viewed vertically, that is, historically. 1972Computers & Humanities VII. 6 A corpus of about 1000 words, chosen from eleven villages, provided a concordance to suggest a reconstruction of the Franco-Provençal proto-diasystem and a tentative phonology. |