Part I.Knowledge construction over time

Lexical variation within historical ecologies

Terminological variation and change across the German translations
of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva

Chiara Benati

Marialuisa Caparrini

Contact-induced lexical variation and knowledge (re)construction: The case of early Diaspora Serbian in the USA

Jelena Vujic

Aleksandar Milanovic

Brazilian indigenous loanwords in Bluteau’s Vocabulario portugues e latino

Alina Villalva

Esperança Cardeira

Laura Carmo

Cawdrey’s lexicographical practice: Its historical continuance and development

Kusujiro Miyoshi

Usury or interest? Reconstructing Early Modern English economics discourse (1572–1603) via historical corpus linguistics

Remo Appolloni

Part II.Probing change

Lexical variation and knowledge construction within methodological ecologies

Quantifying lexical variation in Dutch: Case studies in lexical lectometry

Dirk Geeraerts

Usage labelling in the Diccionario da Língua Portugueza by Morais Silva: A study of linguistic variation and knowledge construction

Ana Salgado

Rute Costa

Laurent Romary

Toma Tasovac

Lessico Etimologico Italiano – Germanismi: Glances from the back shop of lexicographical project

Elda Morlicchio

Lexical variation across time and contact ecologies: A comparative corpus-assisted investigation of multiword constructions in Indian English and Australian Aboriginal English

Rita Calabrese

Katherine E. Russo

Lexical frequency effects on language variation

Carmen Ciancia

Peter L. Patrick

Pasquale Esposito

Accessibility in public health: An analysis of two US-based plain language lexicographical resources

Jacqueline Aiello

Part III.Clashes of wor(l)ds

Lexical variation and knowledge construction within sociocultural ecologies

Disciplinary moulds and epistemological clashes: The historical lexicography of Austrian German and Canadian English

Stefan Dollinger

Medical lexicon and gender ideologies in nineteenth-century
British periodicals: The pathologisation of the female body and mind in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1805–1855)

Annalisa Federici

Metaphoricide: The death of heuristic metaphors in molecular biology and crosslinguistic epistemic implications

Rossella Latorraca

Metaphorical conceptualisations of inflation in English and Romanian: A corpus-based analysis

Maria-Crina Herteg

Morphemic phrasemes in German: The case of particle verbs

Valentina Schettino

Biographical notes

Table of contents

Part I.Knowledge construction over time

Part II.Probing change

Part III.Clashes of wor(l)ds