1. Introduction; 2. Brook Memoir by Alan Shelston; 3. List of Contributors; 4. Lexical Gaps, Cognition and Linguistic Change (by Fischer, Andreas); 5. Folk-Etymology: Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy? (by Rundblad, Gabriella); 6. Mechanisms of Semantic Change in Nouns of Cognition: a General Model? (by Koivisto-Alanko, Paivi); 7. Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography: will the twain ever meet? (by Kay, Christian); 8. Strange Linguists: the Cant and Slang Dictionary Tradition (by Coleman, Julie); 9. Lexical Choices in an Early Galilean Translation (by Gotti, Maurizio); 10. Grund to Hrof: Aspects of the Old English Semantics of Building and Architecture (by Biggam, Carole P.); 11. Five Hundred Years of Love: a Prototype-Semantic Analysis (by Tissari, Heli); 12. The Vocabulary of Consent in Middle English (by Sylvester, Louise); 13. The Discourse Motivations for Neologising: Action Nominalization in the History of English (by Cowie, Claire); 14. The Vernacularization of the Negative Prefix Dis-in Early Modern English (by McConchie, R.W.); 15. Brook Symposium Edited by Christian Kay; 16. Author and Subject Index