Preface -- Introduction: Exploring the "state of the art" in historical semantics -- Section 1: Data and sources -- Using OED data as evidence -- Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED -- The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring on-going change -- Commentary -- Section 2: Corpus-based methods -- How anger rose: Hypothesis testing in diachronic semantics -- Diachronic collostructional analysis: How to use it and how to deal with confounding factors -- Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis -- Commentary -- Section 3: Theoretical Approaches -- A sociolinguistic perspective on semantic change -- A pragmatic approach to historical semantics, with special reference to markers of clausal negation in Medieval French -- The pervasiveness of contiguity and metonymy in semantic change -- A cognitive approach to the methodology of semantic reconstruction: The case of English chin and knee -- Commentary -- Subject index -- Index of word forms and concepts.