1. Message from the President (by Kameyama, Ikuo); 2. Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education (by Minegishi, Makoto); 3. Introduction (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 4. The Atlas Linguarum Europae: A diachronic analysis of its data (by Viereck, Wolfgang); 5. Variationism and underuse statistics in the analysis of the development of relative clauses in German (by Ludeling, Anke); 6. Variation and change in the Montferrand Account-books (1259-1367) (by Lodge, R. Anthony); 7. Cognitive aspects of language evolution and language change: The example of French historical texts (by Raible, Wolfgang); 8. The importance of diasystematic parameters in studying the history of French (by Schosler, Lene); 9. The reorganisation of mood in the epistemic subsystem - The case of French belief predicates in diachronic dynamics (by Becker, Martin); 10. French liaison in the 18th Century - Analysis of Gile Vaudelin's texts (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 11. Issues in the typographic representation of medieval primary sources (by Emiliano, Antonio); 12. An analysis of the misuse of the participle in old Russian texts (by Onda, Yoshinori); 13. A preliminary analysis of Arabic derived verbs in the Leeds Quran Corpus - With special reference to Stem III (CaaCaC) (by Ratcliffe, Robert R.); 14. On the narrow and open "e" contrast in Santali (by Minegishi, Makoto); 15. The classification of Apabhramsa - A corpus-based approach of the study of Middle Indo-Aryan (by Yamahata, Tomoyuki); 16. Changes in the meaning and construction of Polysemous words: The case of mieru and mirareru (by Shiba, Ayako); 17. Language change from the viewpoint of distribution patterns of standard Japanese forms (by Yarimizu, Kanetaka); 18. Index of proper nouns; 19. Index of subjects; 20. Contributors