Introduction -- IN FLANDERS -- The relationship between Flanders and Brussels from 1830 to 1980. Mechanisms of power in a historical context -- Minority problems: on the progress of Netherlandic primary education in Brussels -- Migrants' children in Flemish schools in Brussels: a matter of options -- "Community" problems in Belgium: some recent developments in the Flemish-Francophone conflict -- The evolution of the diglossic system in Flanders (1850-1914) -- IN THE NETHERLANDS -- Gradual dialect loss and semantic fields -- Dialect loss in Maastricht: attitudes, functions and structures -- Determining the explanatory factors of t/d deletion in the dialect of Nijmegen -- Directness, explicitness and orientation in Turkish family interaction -- Socio-cultural predictors of minority children's first and second language proficiency -- Changes in the pronunciation of Frisian under the influence of Netherlandic -- Subject Index -- List of authors.