The origins of the synchronic and the diachronic
 

Delany 109: "In his general linguistic lectures from 1906 to 1911, Saussure [identifies] the difference between the synchronic and the diachronic"
 
"the two axes around which, more and more, information has been organized, with greater and greater concentration on the synchronic"
 
see notes on Mary Katherine Bateson's explanation of these concepts

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