It has substituted a diachronic for what should be a synchronic perspective. |
Some of the diachronic plans were therefore out of step with the synchronic plans. |
It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world. |
Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns. |
The distinction between ritual and ceremony as pointed out by Alan Wald can then be analysed from a diachronic and a synchronic point of view. |
In essence, then, Steck calls for both a diachronic and synchronic reading of Isaiah. |