Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods us

Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods us

Annotation Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the

This volume considers the linguistic borders between languages and dia­lects, as well as the administrative, cultural and mental borders that reflect or affect

The Low Saxon dialect area can be seen as a research laboratory par excellence. Here, linguists from very different disciplines - but especially from the fields