The
Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area.
- The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics
- Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data
- Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world’s most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology
- Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied
- The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry
List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1
CHARLES BOBERG, JOHN NERBONNE, AND DOMINIC WATT
Section 1: Theory (section editor: Dominic Watt) 1
Section Introduction
DOMINIC WATT
1 Dialectology, Philology, and Historical Linguistics 23
RAYMOND HICKEY
2 The Dialect Dictionary 39
JACQUES VAN KEYMEULEN
3 Linguistic Atlases 57
WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR.
4 Structural Dialectology 73
MATTHEW J. GORDON
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