This text is an attempt to review dialectological studies and to contribute to the reflections on the role of Dialectology in the third millennium. First it focuses authors and works relevant to the development of the methodology applied in that field of linguistic investigation; then it considers the perspectives and current methodological trends, discussing the different variables which should be taken into account in geolinguistic research at the present moment.
Variation; Linguistic Atlases; Geolinguistics; Dialectology