The Network on the Convergence and Divergence of Dialects in a changing Europe was approved by the ESF Executive Council in November 1995 for a three-year period.
The Chairman was Prof. Peter Auer from Hamburg University.

Main topics of the Network on the Convergence and Divergence of Dialects in a changing Europe are: the relationship between dialects and the standard language; the influence of dialects on each other, particularly in cases where there is no over-arching standard language; the study of the communities of dialect speaking emigrants; the impact of political borders on dialects; the influence of mass-media; the relationship between the native dialects and the new group of immigrants with their imported dialects.

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