We calibrated the trees against two points of reference: the current dates of dictionaries for each of the contemporary languages, and the Seljuk conquest of Baghdad (1055 CE), which is likely the latest date for divergence of Seljuk-derived languages (Turkish, Azeri, Gagauz) from other Oghuz languages (Turkmen), the earliest likely date being 985 CE [ 18, 19].
It would seem, therefore, that one must reckon with both divergence and convergence in the diachronic development of languages: divergence when contact between two speech communities is reduced or broken and convergence when the two speech communities remain in contact and when one is politically or culturally dominant.
and the Symbolist source was amplified further in Taupin's study published in 1929, in which he concluded however great the divergence of technique and language 'between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision'.
Challenges during the development of the revised MTP included difficulties in managing people in the working group, resistance from some health workers, divergence of implementation strategy, language difficulties, and uncertainty about the government's capacity to implement the change.
Further, a surprising amount of the overall lexical divergence among languages was attributable to punctuational effects: 31% of the vocabulary differences among Bantu languages occurred at splitting events, 21% in Indo-European languages and 10% in Austronesian.
Studies of spatial language have found that the separate grammatical constructions for manner and path found in spoken language comport with the neural divergence of manner and path information along ventral and dorsal pathways.
The divergence of isolated populations on islands?
Such a divergence of opinion confuses the mind.
I think there's a divergence of evidence".
We don't have a single eating culture in Germany; we have a divergence of cultures".
