Front matter -- Contents -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Publications by Dieter Kastovsky -- Introduction / Mettinger, Arthur -- Old Irish dúilem 'maker, creator' / Ahlqvist, Anders -- The importance of being Leofwine Horn / Anderson, John / Colman, Fran -- The desemanticisation of existential there in a synchronic-diachronic perspective / Breivik, Leiv Egil / Swan, Toril -- Anti- and pro- in Indian English / Carls, Uwe -- The meaning of naked and a theory of metaphor / Diller, Hans-Jürgen -- On contrastive word formation: German and Hungarian denominal adjective formation / Dressler, Wolfgang U. / Ládanyi, Mária -- The greening of greening / Fischer, Andreas -- Middle English beck in the Midlands: the place-name evidence / Fisiak, Jacek -- Conceptual and semantic change in the history of English / Görlach, Manfred -- Genitive case or determinative phrase? The status of 's forms in Modern English / Hansen, Klaus -- Direction and location in Modern Irish / Hickey, Raymond -- John Locke, semanticist / Hüllen, Werner -- Thou in the history of English: a case for historical semantics or pragmatics? / Jucker, Andreas H. -- Diminutives: an interface of word formation, semantics and pragmatics / Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara -- Which end is your head on? Typological remarks on Modern Persian / Lass, Roger -- Word-formation and (proper) names: a neglected field / Lipka, Leonhard -- Text condensation in the press: the case of compound adjectival premodifiers / Ljung, Magnus -- On the semantics of the English double modals / Nagle, Stephen J. / Holmes, Patsy L. -- The third-person singular -(E)S and -(E)TH revisited: the morphophonemic hypothesis / Nevalainen, Terttu / Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena -- Paths of loan-word grammaticalisation: the case of according to / Rissanen, Matti -- The third person present plural in Shakespeare's First Folio: A case of interaction of morphology and syntax? / Schendl, Herbert -- The function of word-formation and the case of English -cum- / Stein, Gabriele -- What happened to Old English clitic pronouns and why? / Stockwell, Robert / Minkova, Donka -- Tall As He Was: On the meaning of complements-as-constructions / Tottie, Gunnel -- Eyes and ears / Winter, Werner -- Subject index |