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Dictionary of language and linguistics 312ReferenceAllen, J. 1987. Natural language understanding. Menlo Park, CA.diasystemTerm coined by U.Weinreich for a ‘system of systems.’ Two or more linguistic systemswith partial similarities are subsumed under a diasystem which reflects the structuralsimilarities or overlappings and differences between them. This concept was appliedabove all to the description of overlapping phonological systems in multi(dia)lectallinguistic situations, as for example in different, though neighboring and coexisting,regional and social varieties within a speech community.ReferencesCochrane, G.R. 1959. The Australian English vowels as a diasystem. Word 15. 69–88.Weinreich, U. 1954. Is a structural dialectology possible? Word 10. 388–400. (Repr. in H.B.Allenand G.N.Underwood (eds), Readings in American dialectology. New York, 1971, 300–13.)diathesis [Grk diathesis ‘state, condition’](also voice)Term from Greek for voice (active, passive, middle) as well as for other regular valenceshifts such as applicative, accusativization, and dative shift.dichotomy [Grk dichotomía ‘division intotwo parts’]A bipartite, complementary opposition, such as langue vs parole, synchronic vsdiachronic linguistics, competence vs performance.