Introduction to the Language and Space series; List of maps; List of tables and figures; Abbreviations; Bibliographical details of cited atlases, dictionaries and grammars; Map of regions and provinces; 1. Introduction to the volume; I. History of the field; 2. History and development of Dutch dialect research; 3. Language and space in Dutch: Recent developments and new research areas; 4. Language and space in Dutch: Wishes for the future; II. The major dialect regions of Dutch: linguistic structure, spectrum of variation and dynamics; 5. A regional history of Dutch
6. The spectrum of spatial varieties of Dutch: The historical genesis7. The classification of the dialects of Dutch; 8. Unravelling the complexities of variation and change in and beyond the present-day dialects of Dutch: Finding one's way through the woods; 9. The southwestern dialect area: Phonology; 10. The grammar of the southwestern dialects; 11. Southwestern Dutch dialects today; 12. East Flemish: Phonology; 13. Between Brabantic and West Flemish: East Flemish morphology and syntax; 14. Recent developments in the East Flemish dialect area
15. The dialects of the Brabant region: Phonological properties16. The dialects of Brabant: Grammatical properties; 17. Recent developments in the mid southern dialects; 18. Phonological features of Limburgian dialects; 19. The Limburg dialects: Grammatical properties; 20. Recent developments in the Limburg dialect region; 21. Holland and Utrecht: Phonology and phonetics; 22. Holland and Utrecht: Morphology and syntax; 23. Holland and Utrecht: More recent developments; 24. Low Saxon phonology; 25. The Low Saxon dialects: Morphology and syntax
26. Recent evolutions in the position and structure of Low Saxon. With an excursus on the new polders in FlevolandIII. Supra-regional and regionally-unbound aspects; 27. Geographical patterns of lexical variation in the Dutch-speaking area; 28. Supra-regional characteristics of colloquial Dutch; 29. Non-standard varieties in the new media; 30. Perception of geographically conditioned linguistic variation; 31. Attitude measurements in the Low Countries; 32. Supraregional patterns and language change; 33. Dialectometry
34. Research results from on-line dialect databases and dynamic dialect maps35. Grammar & Geography or vice versa; 36. Variation between and within Sign Language of the Netherlands and Flemish Sign Language; IV. Dynamics of contact varieties of Dutch; 37. Belgian Dutch; 38. Language varieties in the province of Fryslân; 39. Ethnolects of Dutch; 40. Varieties of Dutch / Dutch as a minority language in Germany; 41. A West Flemish dialect as a minority language in the north of France; 42. Between Dutch and Indonesian: Colonial Dutch in time and space; 43. The Dutch Language in the USA.
This handbook aims at a state-of-the-art overview of earlier and recent research into older, newer and emerging non-standard varieties, transplanted varieties and daughter languages of Dutch. The discussion concerns the theoretical embedding, interdisciplinary connections and the methodology of the studies at issue. It presents general concepts and approaches in the broad domain of Dutch variation linguistics and the main developments
