1. Semantic associations: A foreword (by Vanhove, Martine); 2. Part 1. State of the art; 3. Approaching lexical typology (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 4. Part 2. Theoretical and methodological issues; 5. Words and their meanings: Principles of variation and stabilization (by Robert, Stephane); 6. The typology of semantic affinities (by Pottier, Bernard); 7. Cognitive onomasiology and lexical change: Around the eye (by Koch, Peter); 8. Mapping semantic spaces: A constructionist account of the "light verb" xordaen 'eat' in Persian (by Family, Niloufar); 9. Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages (by Francois, Alexandre); 10. A catalogue of semantic shifts: Towards a typology of semantic derivation (by Zalizniak, Anna A.); 11. Semantic associations and confluences in paradigmatic networks (by Gaume, Bruno); 12. Part 3. Case studies; 13. About 'Eating' in a few Niger-Congo languages (by Bonvini, Emilio); 14. Eating beyond certainties (by Henault, Christine); 15. From semantic change to polysemy: The cases of 'meat/animal' and 'drink' (by Boyeldieu, Pascal); 16. Is a 'friend' an 'enemy'? Between "proximity" and "opposition" (by Sakhno, Serguei); 17. Semantic associations between sensory modalities, prehension and mental perceptions: A crosslinguistic perspective (by Vanhove, Martine); 18. Cats and bugs: Some remarks about semantic parallelisms (by Masson, Michel); 19. General index; 20. Index of languages; 21. Index of names
