Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Core domains: From phonetics to pragmatics -- Methodological reflections on the phonetic-phonological continuum, illustrated on the prosody of Swiss German dialects -- Phonological typology, rhythm types and the phonetics-phonology interface. A methodological overview and three case studies on Italo-Romance dialects -- Indirect measurement in morphological typology -- Is a syntactic dialectology possible? Contributions from Swiss German -- Methods for modalities -- The making of a festschrift, is it a ritual? -- Part II: Cross-linguistic and language internal diversity -- Language description and linguistic typology -- Multiple languages and multiple methods: Qualitative and quantitative ways of tapping into the multilingual repertoire -- Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research -- Variation in a second language as a methodological challenge: Knowledge and use of relative clauses -- Polish tea is Czech coffee: advantages and pitfalls in using a parallel corpus in linguistic research -- Part III: Dynamic language -- Historical text analysis: Underlying parameters and methodological procedures -- Using methods of historical linguistics in Indo-European and Tibetan -- Etyma, shouldered adzes and molecular variants -- Experimental methods in psycholinguistics -- Part IV: Writing -- Coming to grips with dynamics and complexity. Methodological challenges to real-life writing research -- Evolving methods for written representations of signed languages of the Deaf -- Part V: Language, Space and Society.

Crossing perspectives on onomastic methodology: Reflections on fieldwork in place name research. An essay in interactional onomastics -- Does the territoriality principle work in practice? The principle's applicability to the Romansh area in the Swiss Canton of Grisons -- Procedures of methodological triangulation in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism -- Subject index -- Author index.