diatopically

English

Etymology

diatopic +‎ -ally

Adverb

diatopically (comparative more diatopically, superlative most diatopically)

1. (chiefly phonetics) Occurring over or changing with space; geographically.
   • 1999, Simon Horobin, Jeremy Smith, “A Database of Middle English Spelling”, in Literary and Linguistic Computing‎^[1], volume 14, number 3, page 360:

     First, a large-scale corpus of material is needed, both diachronically and diatopically arrayed and allowing in its organization and compilation for the identification of correlations with phenomena traditionally treated as extralinguistic, e.g. genre, script, etc.

   • 2013, Simonetta Montemagni, Martijn Wieling, Bob de Jonge, John Nerbonne, “Synchronic patterns of Tuscan phonetic variation and diachronic change: Evidence from a dialectometric study”, in Literary and Linguistic Computing‎^[2], volume 28, number 1, page 159:

     . Concerning the spirantization of /b/, /d/ and /g/, it should be noted that it shows a much more restricted diffusion throughout the region diatopically.

   • 2022 September, Massimo Roberto Beato, “From Mask to Flesh and Back: A Semiotic Analysis of the Actor's Face Between Theatre and Cinema.”, in Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy‎^[3], volume 41, number 4, page 756:

     If we know that nature is deeply culturalized and culture deeply naturalized (as Morin has maintained since the 1950s and the ontological turn in anthropology has been discussing since the 1990s), building our semiotic theory of the face on the basis of the common sense dichotomy between nature and culture would prevent us from truly comprehending the axiologies and ideologies of the face spread diachronically and diatopically.