Present-day Dialectology does not treat dialectology as an isolated discipline. Instead, it discusses dialectological topics within the framework of present-day linguistics. The book contains papers which seek to confront recent phonological, morphologic, syntactic and semantic theory with dialectological data. In addition, it explores the link between dialectology on the one hand and sociolinguistics and the study of language contact on the other. Therefore, this study is not only of interest to dialectologists, but also to sociolinguists, students of language contact as well as theoretical linguists in general.Contents:Werner Abraham: Characteristics of spoken vernaculars: parsing strategies? The Case of GermanGert Booij: Language variation and phonological theory: inflected adjectives in Dutch and related languagesDennis R. Preston: Perceptual dialectology: aims, methods, findingsGeorges de Schutter: Parallels in the phonological systems of SouthernDutch and Northern French dialectsWolfgang Viereck: Britain and the Continent - linguistic interrelationsJoseph J. S. Weitenberg: Aspects of Armenian dialectologyLieselotte Anderwald - Bernd Kortmann: Typology and dialectology: a programmatic sketchCharlotte Gooskens / Renée van Bezooijen: The role of prosodic and verbal aspects of speech in the perceived divergence of Dutch andEnglish language varietiesRüdiger Harnisch: Morphologische Reanalysen bei lokalen Adverbien,Präpositionen und Adjektiven im Thüringischen und OstfränkischenJosé Ignacio Hualde: Basque accentuation and dialectologyJaap van Marle / Caroline Smits: On the (non-)persistence of dialect features in American Dutch (1): general aspectsCaroline Smits: On the (non-)persistence of dialect features in American Dutch (2): the case of Iowa DutchInge Lise Pedersen: The impact of internal or contact-induced change on weak preterites in -at in Danish dialects with an outlook to Norway andSwedenMichael D. Picone: Meta-constraints and constraint ranking in relation to the representation of nasality and palatality across French dialectsSibylle Reichel: Probleme bei der Erstellung von Sprachkarten imUntersuchungsgebiet des "Bayerischen Sprachatlas" am Beispiel vonRichtungsadverbienBeat Siebenhaar: Dialektwandel und Einstellung - Das Beispiel derAarauer StadtmundartDialect change and attitudesDick Smakman / Renée van Bezooijen: The pronunciation of standard Dutch- An evaluation studyJos Swanenberg: On ethnobiological nomenclature in Southern Dutch dialectsIndex of subjectsIndex of authors