1. Foreword; 2. Preface (by Burchfield, R.W.); 3. Introduction (by Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara); 4. I. General Foundations and a Historical Perspective; 5. Metaphysics of the dictionary versus the lexicon (by Nowakowski, Miroslaw); 6. Vocabulary acquisition and the mental lexicon (by Channell, Joanna M.); 7. Evidence and intuition in lexicography (by Hanks, Patrick); 8. Definitional semantics: its evolution in French lexicography (by Rey, Alain); 9. The Dictionary of Justus Georg Schottelius or 'generativism' in a 17th-century grammar?! (by Ritt, Nikolaus); 10. II. Word Formation and Syntax; 11. The interaction of semantic and formal structures in the lexicon (by Kastovsky, Dieter); 12. Oppositeness of meaning, word formation, and lexicography: the English prefix un- (by Mettinger, Arthur); 13. An example of interaction between syntax and semantics (by Ferris, D. Connor); 14. Semantic regularities in dictionaries (by Ilson, Robert F.); 15. III. Semantics and Pragmatics; 16. The axiological aspect of idealized cognitive models (by Krzeszowski, Tomasz P.); 17. A cognitive approach to spatial terms represented by 'in front of' and 'behind' in English and their metaphorical extensions (by Kalisz, Roman); 18. Meaning, synonymy, and the dictionary (by Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara); 19. Dynamics in meaning as a problem for bilingual lexicography (by Snell-Hornby, Mary); 20. Functional grammar and lexematics in lexicography (by Mingorance, Leocadio Martin); 21. Metalinguistic behaviour and language study (by Tomaszczyk, Jerzy); 22. The Meaning-Text Model of language and practical lexicography (by Piotrowski, Tadeusz); 23. Translation-specific lexical items and their representation in the dictionary (by Toury, Gideon); 24. IV. Diachrony; 25. Semantic approaches to an historical thesaurus (by Kay, Christian); 26. Some problems of Indo-European lexicography (by Danka, Ignacy R.)