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Summary
Permanence,stability,continuity.Terminologicalremarks
Interestinthethingswhicharepermanent(stable)inlanguage,andtherefore,ac-
cordingtoageneralbelief,inthethingswhicharestaticindiachrony,camealong
withareflectionaboutthephenomenonofthepermanenceoflanguage.Contrary
toappearances,thisthemecontinuestobeasourceofmanyinterpretativeprob-
lems.Theauthorisinterestedaboveallinthebasicproblemsassociatedwithwhat
thispermanence(stability)isandwhetherthisphenomenonisactuallyhomo-
genousornot.Shedirectsthereader’sattentiontoacertainterminologicaland
conceptualconfusion,forontheonehand,inlinguisticresearchworksthefol-
lowingtermsareusedsynonymously:permanence,stability,duration,continuity
1inreferencetothesameconcepts,andontheotherhand,thesametermisap-
pliedtoheterogeneousphenomena.
Keywords:diachrony,evolutionoflanguage,stability
