Proceeding of the second workshop on "Divergence and convergence of dialects across political borders" held in Ghent on 13-15 March 1997: "The Scottish-English border in hindsight" by Beat Glauser; "One island, two borders, two languages: a look at linguistic and political borders in Ireland" by Jeffrey L. Kallen; "The role of political borders in the millennial retreat of Dutch (Flemish) in the North of France" by Hugo Ryckeboer; "Cross-frontier and inter-regional differences in the production and perception of fortis-lenis oppositions in plosives to be found in the French-German border area" by Manfred Pützer; comments on Pützer’s paper by Peter Auer; "Changes of dialect, code-switching and new kinds of usage: the divergence of dialects along the border between Germany and France in and around the region of the Oberrhein" by Hubert Klausmann; comments on Klausmann’s paper by Waletr Haas; "Langues standard et dialectes locaux dans la France du Sud-Est et l’Italie septentrionale sous le coup de l’effet-frontière: une approche dialectométrique" by Hans Goebl; "Urban and rural dialects of Slesvig: political boundaries in the millennial retreat of Danish in Slesvig" by Inge Lise Pedersen; "The divisive frontier: the impact of the Russian-Finnish border on Karelian" by Anneli Sarhimaa; "On quantitative and qualitative methods" by Stig Örian Ohlsson; comments on Ohlsson’s paper by Mats Thelander; "The sociolinguistics of Berlin Urban Vernacular" by Peter Schlobinski.

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