Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Dialectology and typology - An integrative -- perspective -- Local markedness as a heuristic tool in -- dialectology: The case of amn't -- Non-standard evidence in syntactic typology - -- Methodological remarks on the use of dialect data vs spoken language -- data -- The typology of motion and posture verbs: A -- variationist account -- Dynamic typology and vernacular universals -- Definite articles in Scandinavian: Competing -- grammaticalization processes in standard and non-standard -- varieties -- Person marking in Dutch dialects -- A typology of relative clauses in German -- dialects -- Do as a tense and aspect marker in varieties of -- English -- Typology, dialectology and the structure of -- complementation in Romani -- Problems for typology: Perfects and resultatives in -- spoken and non-standard English and Russian -- Comparing grammatical variation phenomena in -- non-standard English and Low German dialects from a typological -- perspective -- On three types of dialect variation and their -- implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss -- German dialects -- Substrate, superstrate and universals: Perfect -- constructions in Irish English -- The impact of language contact and social structure -- on linguistic structure: Focus on the dialects of Modern Greek -- Jespersen's cycle and the interaction of predicate -- and quantifier negation in Flemish -- "Gendered" pronouns in English dialects - A -- typological perspective -- Population linguistics on a micro-scale. Lessons to -- be learnt from Baltic and Slavic dialects in contact -- Backmatter