Introduction: Historical Semantics And Cognition -- Section I: Theories And Models -- Cognitive Semantics And Structural Semantics -- Diachronic Semantics: Towards A Unified Theory Of Language Change? -- Why Do New Meanings Occur? A Cognitive Typology Of The Motivations For Lexical Semantic Change -- Diachronic Prototype Semantics. A Digest -- Cognitive Semantics And Diachronic Semantics: The Values And Evolution Of Classes -- Section Ii: Descriptive Categories -- Losing Control: Grammaticization, Subjectification, And Transparency -- The Rhetoric Of Counter-Expectation In Semantic Change: A Study In Subjectification -- Synecdoche As A Cognitive And Communicative Strategy -- Laws Of Thought, Knowledge And Lexical Change -- Section Iii: Case Studies -- Intensifies As Targets And Sources Of Semantic Change -- Cognitive Ease And Lexical Borrowing: The Recategorization Of Body Parts In Romance -- Cognitive Aspects Of Semantic Change And Polysemy: The Semantic Space Have/Be -- List Of Contributors -- Index.