In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volu

This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which his

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

Revision of author's (doctoral) thesis--LaTrobe University, Austraila, 2008.

This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.