Edited by Ye Tian & Beata Zacharska

Semantics and Pragmatics

Felicity Deamer, Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Richard Breheny	A contrastive look at metaphor and hyperbole
Ingrid Lossius Falkum	Systematic polysemy and the count-mass distinction
Deirdre Wilson	Parallels and differences in the treatment of metaphor in relevance theory and cognitive linguistics
Beata Zacharska	Definite descriptions: Semantic or pragmatic polysemy?

Language Acquisition

Neil Parr and Richard Breheny

For want of a VP: a study in semantic bootstrapping

Syntax

Ad Neeleman and Hans Van De Koot

The Linguistic Expression of Causation

Phonology

Mariam Almihmadi

Exploring the phonetics of neutralisation with phonology in mind