Acknowledgments -- Maps -- 1. General Information On The Kashubians And Kashubian Dialects -- 1.1. Linguistic Position Of Polish Kashubian Dialects -- 1.2. Present-Day Kashubian Linguistic Area -- 1.3. Linguistic Systems Spoken Today In The Kashubian Area -- 1.4. Old Polish Texts Of Kashubian Origin -- Kashubian Literature -- 1.5. The Scientific Study Of Kashubian: History And Perspectives -- 1.6. Phonemic Development Of Kashubian: Introduction -- 1.7. Selected Bibliography -- 2. Northwestern Variant Of The Polish-Pomeranian Phonemic System Of The Twelfth Century -- 2.1. Paradigmatic Relations -- 2.2. The Origin Of Particular Nwpp Phonemes -- 2.3. Syntagmatic Relations -- 3. The Thirteenth To Fifteenth Centuries: The Beginning Of An Autonomous Kashubian Development, The Consolidation Of The Northwestern Border Of The Kashubian Linguistic Area -- 3.1. Vocalic Developments -- 3.2. Consonantal Developments -- 4. The Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries: The Consolidation Of The Southeastern Border, The Beginning Of The Internal Differentiation -- 4.1. Consonantal Developments -- 4.2. Vocalic Developments -- 4.3. Prosodic Developments -- 4.4. The Final Consolidation Of The Kashubian Linguistic Area -- 5. The Eighteenth To Twentieth Centuries: Further Internal Differentiation -- 5.1. Prosodic Developments -- 5.2. Vocalic Developments -- 5.3. Consonantal Developments -- 5.4. Conclusions -- 6. Basic Phonological Patterns Of Contemporary Kashubian -- Bibliography -- 7. Chrestomathy -- 7.1. Old Polish Texts Of Kashubian Origin -- 7.2. Kashubian Dialect Texts -- 8. Indexes And Glossaries -- 8.1. Indexes Of Reconstructed Forms -- 8.2. Indexes And Glossaries Of Words Used As Examples Or Appearing In The Chrestomathy.