| The scientific interest of dialectology lies in the fact that dialects are a valuable source of information about popular culture. |
| Regarding the second principle, the lessons of historical linguistics and dialectology provide the strongest arguments available for the linguistic validity of U.S. Spanish. |
| Social dialectology has focused on the subjective evaluation of linguistic features and the degree of an individual's linguistic security, phenomena that have considerable influence on linguistic change. |
| However, the 19th century saw the rise of dialectology and the categorisation of dialects. |
| The 19th-century rise of nationalism, coupled with the Romantic view of dialects and folklore as manifestations of the ethnic soul, furnished a great impetus for dialectology. |
| German dialectology traditionally names the major dialect groups after Germanic tribes from which they were assumed to have descended. |
