Tabula gratulatoria -- Publications -- Introduction -- Old Irish dúilem 'maker, creator' -- The importance of being Leofwine Horn -- The desemanticisation of existential there in a synchronic-diachronic perspective -- Anti- and pro- in Indian English -- The meaning of naked and a theory of metaphor -- On contrastive word-formation: German and Hungarian denominal adjective formation -- The greening of greening -- Middle English beck in the Midlands: the place-name evidence -- Conceptual and semantic change in the history of English -- Genitive case or determinative phrase? The status of 's forms in Modern English -- Direction and location in Modern Irish -- John Locke, semanticist -- Thou in the history of English: a case for historical semantics or pragmatics? -- Diminutives: an interface of word-formation, semantics and pragmatics -- Which end is your head on? Typological remarks on Modern Persian -- Word-formation and (proper) names: a neglected field -- Text condensation in the press: the case of compound adjectival premodifiers -- On the semantics of English double modals -- The third-person singular -(E)S and -(E)TH revisited: the morphophonemic hypothesis -- Paths of loan-word grammaticalisation: the case of according to -- The third person present plural in Shakespeare's First Folio: A case of interaction of morphology and syntax? -- The function of word-formation and the case of English -cum- -- What happened to Old English clitic pronouns and why? -- Tall As He Was: On the meaning of complement-as-constructions -- Eyes and ears -- Subject index.