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Introduction: historical semantics and cognition. Section 1 Theories andmodels: cognitive semantics and structural semantics, John R. Taylor;diachronic semantics towards a unified theory of language change? HelmutLudtke; why do new meanings occur? a cognitive typology of the motivationsfor lexical semantic change, andreas Blank; diachronic prototype semantics -a digest, Dirk Geeraerts; cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics - thevalues and evolution of classes, Francois Rastier. Section 2 Descriptivecategories: losing control - grammaticization, subjectification, andtransparency, Ronald W. Langacker; the rhetoric of counter-expectation insemantic change -a study in subjectification, Elizabeth Closs Traugott;synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, Brigitte Nerlich, DavidD. Clarke; laws and thought, knowledge and lexical change, Beatrice Warren.Section 3 Case studies: intensifiers as targets and sources of semanticchange, Ekkehard Koning, Peter Siemund; cognitive ease and lexical borrowing- the recategorization of body parts in Romance, Thomas Krefeld; cognitiveaspects of semantic change and polysemy -the semantic space have/be.