Contents -- PREFACE -- English prefixation: A historical sketch. Dieter Kastovsky, Vienna University / University of Social Sciences, Warsaw -- On the history and analysis of V-P nouns. D. Gary Miller, University of Florida / University of Colorado, Boulder -- Historical semantics: A sketch on new categories and types of semantic change. Grzegorz A. Kleparski, University of Rzeszów, Poland -- Reginald Pecock and his vocabulary: A preliminary sketch. Hans Sauer, Chongqing / Katowice / Munich / Würzburg -- Verbs of cooking in Middle English: fry, roast and bake. Magdalena Bator, University of Social Sciences, Warsaw -- Unanalysable verb-related coinages as reflected in the OED-textualprototypes. Michael Bilynsky, Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine / University of Social Sciences, Warsaw -- Old English sæl 'time': Metaphor and metonymy in word and text. Olga Chupryna, Moscow City Teachers' Training University -- Middle English decline of the Old English word leode:A case study of the two manuscripts of Lazamon's Brut. Ewa Ciszek, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan -- Historical word formation in German. On the interpretation ofN-N compounds. Gaye Çinkiliç and Helmut Weiß, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a/M. -- Loss of the prototypical meaning related to lexical borrowing.The battle of (near) synonyms: A case study. Xavier Dekeyser, KU Leuven / Universiteit van Antwerpen -- From portcwene to fille de joie: on etymology and the word-formation processes behind the historical lexical representations in the category FALLEN WOMAN in English Bozena Duda, University of Rzeszów, Poland -- The first years of dude. What else can early American newspapers and the COHA tell us about its early meaningsand usages? Radoslaw Dylewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

Historical word-formation caught in the present - changes in modern usage. Camiel Hamans, Anne Vondeling Stichting / European Parliament, Brussels -- Sniff danger and wietrzy podstp: On the categorization of verbal zoosemy. Robert Kieltyka, University of Rzeszów, Poland -- Old English poetic diction and the language of death: Circumlocutory terms denoting the sense 'die' in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Malgorzata Klos, University of Warsaw -- Whatever the weather - on semantic change and word-formation processes. Beata Kopecka, University of Rzeszów, Poland -- Folk-etymologies: On the way to improving naturalness. Anya Kursova, University of Pisa -- The semantics of noun postmodifying to-infinitives in Old English. Olivier Simonin, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France -- Names of medicines in Early Modern English medical texts(1500 - 1700). Marta Sylwanowicz, University of Social Sciences, Warsaw -- Metaphors of darkness in The Canterbury Tales. Agnieszka Wawrzyniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz,Poland -- The regional aspects of the distribution of nouns in -ling in Middle English. Jerzy Welna, University of Warsaw.