I-IV -- Preface -- List of participants -- The ordering of nominal compounds in Irish -- The semantic development of will -- Semantic shifts in Korean honorification -- Prefixal negation of English adjectives: psycholinguistic dimensions of productivity -- Cross-linguistic comparison and the development of grammatical meaning Suppletion in word-formation -- Derivation, inflection, and semantic change in the development of the Chukchi verb paradigm -- Etymology and the lexical semantics of the Old English preverb be- -- Cognitive restrictions on the structure of semantic change -- On the origin of the suffix -ly -- Gender systems and semanticity: two case histories from Bantu -- Segmental phonology and word-formation: agency and abstraction in the history of Irish -- Deverbal nouns in Old and Modern English: from stem-formation to word-formation -- Where do concessives come from? On the development of concessive connectives -- The influence of semantic fields on semantic change -- On semantic change in a dynamic model of language -- Contact-induced semantic change and innovation -- Inferential features in historical semantics -- Diachronic irreversibility in word-formation and semantics -- Semantic development of borrowings -- Etymology and semantics. Theoretical considerations apropos of an analysis of the etymological problem of Spanish MAÑERO, MAÑERIA -- Lexical and syntactic semantics in historical aspect -- The synchrony-diachrony division in wordformation -- A historical perspective on the productivity of the suffixes -ness and -ity -- Word-formation, learnèd vocabulary and linguistic maturation -- Laʒamon's compound nouns and their morphology -- On the functional development of repetition in Antiguan Creole morphology, syntax, and discourse -- Modality and semantic change -- The lexicological analysis of older stages of languages -- 'Left' or 'right'? -- Index of authors -- Index of languages