The Editors: Leila Behrens is currently a researcher at the University of Cologne. Since 1988, she has taught general and theoretical linguistics, and computational lexicology in Munich, Marburg and Cologne. Her research focuses on ambiguity and alternation, lexical typology and cross-linguistic differences in semantics, e.g. in genericity.Dietmar Zaefferer is currently professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Munich. His first book was a formal treatment of Speech Act Theory. Further interests include linguistic typology, the lexical semantics-syntax interface and lexicogrammatic databases.

• Contents: Leila Behrens/Dietmar Zaeffer: Introduction – Dirk Geeraerts: The Theoretical and Descriptive Development of Lexical Semantics – Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt: Lexical Vagueness, Referential Variation and Lexicalization – Ardi Roelofs: Modeling of Lexical Access in Speech Production: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on the Lexicon – Michael Schecker: The Frayed Thread of Associations in Schizophrenics and What It Tells Us about How the Brain Processes Lexical Items – Jürgen Oesterle: Measure Expressions and Lexicon Theory – Dafydd Gibbon: Compositionality in the Inheritance Lexicon: English Nouns – James Pustejovsky: Polysemy and Underspecification.