DIALECTS ACROSS BORDERS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Dialects across political and historical borders -- THE CONSTRUCTION OF LINGUISTIC BORDERS AND THE LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTION OF BORDERS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialectology and the nation-state: ideological connections -- 3. Towards a theory of space in dialectology -- 4. The German state borders and the dialect continua crosscutting it -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- STATIC SPATIAL RELATIONS IN GERMAN AND ROMANCE -- 1. Data, varieties and informants -- 2. Conceptual structure of a spatial expression -- 3. Simple vs. complex expression of the association function -- 4. Co-event verbs -- 5. Discussion -- References -- INGRESSIVE PARTICLES ACROSS BORDERS -- 1. Background -- 2. Ingressive discourse particles as an areal feature -- 3. Ingressive usage in the Swedish and Newfoundland English taped corpora -- 4. Cross-linguistic gender correlates within the North Atlantic/Baltic Zone -- 5. Discourse parallels across the North Atlantic/Baltic Zone -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSONANT SYSTEM IN MENNONITE LOW GERMAN (PLAUTDIETSCH) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The historical background -- 3. Phonetic and phonological studies on PD: The state of research -- 4. The consonant system of PD: Synchronic and diachronic problems -- References -- ENGLISH DIALECTS IN THE BRITISH ISLES IN CROSS-VARIETY PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 3. The data -- 4. Diagnostic features investigated -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- II. Dialects across social and regional borders -- DIALECTS ACROSS INTERNAL FRONTIERS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Production -- 3. Perception -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- ON 'DATIVE SICKNESS' AND OTHER LINGUISTIC DISEASES IN MODERN ICELANDIC -- 1. Diagnosis of illness -- 2. The present study.

3. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- CAN WE FIND MORE VARIETY IN VARIATION? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What to count and how -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- PRONUNCIATION OF / i/ IN AVANT-GARDE DUTCH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental approach -- 3. Method -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions and discussion -- References -- A TALE OF TWO DIALECTS -- 1. Introduction: Northern Englishes -- 2. Relativization in Northern Dialects -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- III. Dialects across language boundaries -- CROSSING GRAMMATICAL BORDERS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problems with the language contact literature -- 3. Towards a theory of grammatical borrowing -- 4. Varieties of French in Canada -- 5. Prepositions Stranding in Prince Edward Island French -- 6. Preposition Stranding in Prince Edward Island French -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- THE AFTER-PERFECT IN IRISH ENGLISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The perfect in English -- 3. Types of perfects in Hiberno-English -- 4. The after-perfect and its development -- 5. The after-perfect in the present corpus -- 6. Conclusions -- 7. Abbreviations -- References -- Appendix: After-Perfect -- DIALECT HISTORY IN BLACK AND WHITE -- References -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.