1. Introduction; 2. PART I: Dialects across political and historical borders; 3. The construction of linguistic borders and the linguistic construction of borders (by Auer, Peter); 4. Static spatial relations in German and Romance: Towards a cognitive dialectology of posture verbs and locative adverbials (by Berthele, Raphael); 5. Ingressive particles across borders: Gender and discourse parallels across the North Atlantic (by Clarke, Sandra); 6. On the development of the consonant system in Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch) (by Naiditch, Larissa); 7. English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective: A base-line for future research (by Tagliamonte, Sali A.); 8. PART II: Dialects across social and regional borders; 9. Dialects across internal frontiers: Some cognitive boundaries (by Preston, Dennis R.); 10. On 'dative sickness' and other linguistic diseases in modern Icelandic (by Fridriksson, Finnur); 11. Can we find more variety in variation? (by Macaulay, Ronald K.S.); 12. Pronunciation of /ei/ in avant-garde Dutch: A cross-sex acoustic study (by Heuven, Vincent J. van); 13. A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield (by Beal, Joan C.); 14. PART III: Dialects across language boundaries; 15. Crossing grammatical borders: Tracing the path of contact-induced linguistic change (by King, Ruth); 16. The after-perfect in Irish English (by Ronan, Patricia); 17. Dialect history in black and white: Are two colors enough? (by Dillard, J.L.); 18. Index of languages and dialects; 19. Subject index