Frontmatter -- Contents -- I. Introduction: Language and space -- 1. Language and geographical space -- 2. Language and social spaces -- 3. Language and political spaces -- 4. Language and transnational spaces -- II. Linguistic approaches to space -- 5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition -- 6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography -- 7. Language and Space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language space ideology, 1920-1960 -- 8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches -- 9. Language and space: The variationist approach -- 10. Who's there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics -- 11. Language, space and the folk -- 12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach -- III. Structure and dynamics of a language space -- 13. Identifing dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space -- 14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space -- 15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space -- 16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space -- 17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation -- 18. Urban and rural language -- 19. Discontinuous language spaces (Sprachinseln) -- 20. Linguistic stability in a language space -- 21. Old minorities within a language space -- IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces -- 22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale -- 23. Areal language typology -- 24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles -- 25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties -- 26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities -- 27. Non-convergence despite language contact -- V. Data collection and corpus-building -- 28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards -- 29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview -- 30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques -- VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results -- 31. Measuring dialect differences -- 32. Linguistic atlases - traditional and modern -- 33. Dialect dictionaries - traditional and modern -- 34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies -- VII. Exemplary studies -- 35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community of practice -- 36. A study on areal diffusion -- 37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects -- 38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces -- 39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo -- 40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces -- 41. The study of language and space in media discourse -- VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems -- 42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology -- 43. Areal variation in prosody -- 44. Areal variation in morphology -- 45. Lexical variation in space -- 46. Areal variation in syntax -- 47. Areal variation and discourse -- Backmatter