The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private
letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents …

In this paper we discuss and analyze a set of correlations that we discovered using two of
the large-scale Dutch dialect syntax databases available in the online tool MIMORE (the …

Auer (2005; 2011) distinguishes five types of dialect/standard constellations in Europe,
which stand in a diachronic relationship and of which the diaglossic repertoire, marked by …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

This chapter aims at contributing to an understanding of processes of language
standardization by looking at a multidialectal public live performance, broadcast by local …

ANONIEM (1770): Nieuwe Handleiding Tot De Manier Van Brieven Schryven. Vervattende
de Regelen en onderrigtingen, om over allerlei soorten van onderwerpen Brieven op te …

This paper presents a dialectometric analysis of Scottish Gaelic morphology, with a focus on
the noun phrase, using previously unpublished data from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland …

This thesis presents a study of external possession in varieties of Dutch. External
possessors appear outside of the possessum phrase syntactically, whereas semantically …

This paper uses dialect data to disentangle the contributions of phonology and morphology
to the emergence of gender syncretism in the Dutch determiner paradigm. Quantitative and …

This paper explores V2 variation in West Flemish and French Flemish dialects of Dutch
based on an extensive corpus of authentic spoken data. After taking stock of the existing …