I-VI -- Introduction -- In Flanders -- The Relationship between Flanders and Brussels from 1830 to 1980. Mechanisms of power in a historical context -- Minority Problems: On the Progress of Netherlandic Primary Education in Brussels -- Migrants' children in Flemish Schools in Brussels: a Matter of Options -- "Community" problems in Belgium: some recent developments in the Flemish-Francophone conflict -- The Evolution of the Diglossic system in Flanders (1850-1914) -- In The Netherlands -- Gradual Dialect Loss and Semantic Fields -- Dialect loss in Maastricht: Attitudes, Functions and Structures -- Determining the Explanatory Factors of t/d Deletion in the Dialect of Nijmegen -- Directness, Explicitness and Orientation in Turkish Family Interaction -- Socio-cultural Predictors of minority children's first and second Language Proficiency -- Changes in the Pronunciation of Frisian under the Influence of Netherlandic -- Subject index -- List of Authors