| The Old Town developed diachronically, through the osmosis of features of the two worlds of the Mediterranean, the East and the West. |
| Interpretive theorists often explore many of these varied types of meanings both synchronically and diachronically. |
| However, no environment is stable either diachronically or synchronically for any living being. |
| The study's argument is shaped diachronically, early versus late Austen, but the contrast is not mechanically developmental. |
| Most chapters point to multiple forms of community inhabiting particular spaces either diachronically or synchronically. |
| In doing so, the author sheds light on the limits of this typology and the need to interpret it diachronically. |
