Table of Contents

1. Standard languages: Taxonomies and histories (by Deumert, Ana); 2. Afrikaans (by Roberge, Paul T.); 3. Caribbean Creoles (by Devonish, Hubert); 4. Danish (by Kristiansen, Tore); 5. Dutch (by Willemyns, Roland); 6. English (by Nevalainen, Terttu); 7. Faroese (by Hansen, Zakaris Svabo); 8. Frisian (by Hoekstra, Eric); 9. German (by Mattheier, Klaus J.); 10. Icelandic (by Arnason, Kristjan); 11. Low German (by Langer, Nils); 12. Luxembourgish (by Gilles, Peter); 13. Norwegian (by Jahr, Ernst Hakon); 14. Pacific Pidgins and Creoles (by Muhlhausler, Peter); 15. Scots (by Dossena, Marina); 16. Swedish (by Teleman, Ulf); 17. Yiddish (by Peltz, Rakhmiel); 18. Research directions in the study of language standardization (by Deumert, Ana); 19. Index