Table of contents
Introduction
PART I: Dialects across political and historical borders1
The construction of linguistic borders and the linguistic construction of borders
Static spatial relations in German and Romance: Towards a cognitive dialectology of posture verbs and locative adverbials
Ingressive particles across borders: Gender and discourse parallels across the North Atlantic
On the development of the consonant system in Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch)
English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective: A base-line for future research
PART II: Dialects across social and regional borders119
Dialects across internal frontiers: Some cognitive boundaries
On 'dative sickness' and other linguistic diseases in modern Icelandic
Can we find more variety in variation?
Pronunciation of /ei/ in avant-garde Dutch: A cross-sex acoustic study
A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield
PART III: Dialects across language boundaries231
Crossing grammatical borders: Tracing the path of contact-induced linguistic change
The after-perfect in Irish English
Dialect history in black and white: Are two colors enough?
Index of languages and dialects287
Subject index
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