As a comprehensive account of all aspects of dialectology this updated edition makes an ideal introduction to the subject.

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 esse

Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass med

The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variat

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics,