Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the Language and Space series -- List of maps -- List of tables and figures -- Abbreviations -- Bibliographical details of cited atlases, dictionaries and grammars -- Map of regions and provinces -- 1. Introduction to the volume -- I. History of the field -- 2. History and development of Dutch dialect research -- 3. Language and space in Dutch: Recent developments and new research areas -- 4. Language and space in Dutch: Wishes for the future -- II. The major dialect regions of Dutch: linguistic structure, spectrum of variation and dynamics -- 5. A regional history of Dutch -- 6. The spectrum of spatial varieties of Dutch: The historical genesis -- 7. The classification of the dialects of Dutch -- 8. Unravelling the complexities of variation and change in and beyond the present-day dialects of Dutch: Finding one's way through the woods -- 9. The southwestern dialect area: Phonology -- 10. The grammar of the southwestern dialects -- 11. Southwestern Dutch dialects today -- 12. East Flemish: Phonology -- 13. Between Brabantic and West Flemish: East Flemish morphology and syntax -- 14. Recent developments in the East Flemish dialect area -- 15. The dialects of the Brabant region: Phonological properties -- 16. The dialects of Brabant: Grammatical properties -- 17. Recent developments in the mid southern dialects -- 18. Phonological features of Limburgian dialects -- 19. The Limburg dialects: Grammatical properties -- 20. Recent developments in the Limburg dialect region -- 21. Holland and Utrecht: Phonology and phonetics -- 22. Holland and Utrecht: Morphology and syntax -- 23. Holland and Utrecht: More recent developments -- 24. Low Saxon phonology -- 25. The Low Saxon dialects: Morphology and syntax -- 26. Recent evolutions in the position and structure of Low Saxon. With an excursus on the new polders in Flevoland -- III. Supra-regional and regionally-unbound aspects -- 27. Geographical patterns of lexical variation in the Dutch-speaking area -- 28. Supra-regional characteristics of colloquial Dutch -- 29. Non-standard varieties in the new media -- 30. Perception of geographically conditioned linguistic variation -- 31. Attitude measurements in the Low Countries -- 32. Supraregional patterns and language change -- 33. Dialectometry -- 34. Research results from on-line dialect databases and dynamic dialect maps -- 35. Grammar & Geography or vice versa -- 36. Variation between and within Sign Language of the Netherlands and Flemish Sign Language -- IV. Dynamics of contact varieties of Dutch -- 37. Belgian Dutch -- 38. Language varieties in the province of Fryslân -- 39. Ethnolects of Dutch -- 40. Varieties of Dutch / Dutch as a minority language in Germany -- 41. A West Flemish dialect as a minority language in the north of France -- 42. Between Dutch and Indonesian: Colonial Dutch in time and space -- 43. The Dutch Language in the USA -- 44. Dutch in Suriname -- 45. The Dutch language in Australia -- 46. Dutch Creole in the Caribbean -- 47. Afrikaans -- Indexes