Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. PART I: Dialects across political and historical borders
5. The construction of linguistic borders and the linguistic construction of borders 3
6. Static spatial relations in German and Romance 31
7. Ingressive particles across borders 51
8. On the development of the consonant system in Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch) 73
9. English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective 87
10. PART II: Dialects across social and regional borders
11. Dialects across internal frontiers 121
12. On 'dative sickness' and other linguistic diseases in modern Icelandic 157
13. Can we find more variety in variation? 173
14. Pronunciation of /ei/ in avant-garde Dutch 185
15. A tale of two dialects 211
16. PART III: Dialects across language boundaries
17. Crossing grammatical borders 233
18. The after -perfect in Irish English 253
19. Dialect history in black and white 271
20. Index of languages and dialects 287
21. Subject index 289