I-VI -- Preface. Einar Haugen (1906-1994) -- Contents -- Sociology of language and sociolinguistics -- Predictors and criteria in multisite census survey research: from Einar Haugen to today -- The struggle to maintain Croatian dialects in the U.S. -- Politics and language change: The sociolinguistic reflexes of the division of a Palestinian village -- Exploring the social constraints on language change -- Language in its human dimension -- Managing intergroup communication: Life-span issues and consequences -- Family values: The evidence from folk linguistics -- Frontier Norwegian in South Dakota: The situated poetics of Halvor O. Aune -- Language contact and bilingualism -- On mechanisms of interference -- A convergence-resistant feature in a convergence-prone setting: The East Sutherland Gaelic vocative case -- Retracing the first seven years of bilingual and metalinguistic development through the comments of a bilingual child -- Progressive periphrases, markedness, and secondlanguage data -- Pragmatic and semiotic agreement, behavioreme-switching and communicative awareness: On concepts in the analysis of bilingual behavior -- Language typology and linguistic theory -- Tough Movement and its analogs in Germanic languages -- Verbal prefixation in the Ugric languages from a typological-areal perspective -- Alternatives to the sonority hierarchy for explaining segmental sequential constraints -- Cross-linguistic comparison of prosodic patterns in Finnish, Finland Swedish, and Stockholm Swedish -- Contributions from the acquisition of Polish phonology and morphology to theoretical linguistics -- Mother tongue and linguistic standard -- Mother tongue - for better or worse? -- The British heresy in ESL revisited -- Linguistic prehistory and philology -- A lone loanword and its implications -- Notes on the dwarfs in Germanic tradition -- Atlantiker in Nordwesteuropa: Pikten und Vanen -- Subject index -- Name index