While lexicology, lexical semantics and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate fields. The conference which produced the papers presented here was designed to bring practitioners together and stimulate closer co-operation.

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.)