摘要:Methods XII, the Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, was held at the Universite de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, from I to 5 August 2005, The event was hosted by the Centre de recherche en linguistique appliquee of the Universite de Moncton, and it was co-organized by colleagues from five universities located in Canada's Maritime Provinces: Atlantic Baptist University, Mount Allison University, Universite de Moncton, University of New Brunswick and University of Prince Edward Island.