The Editors: Marina Rakova is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Philology, Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia). She obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 from Edinburgh University. Her main research interests lie in the areas of lexical semantics and the philosophy of mind.Gergely Pethő is currently assistant lecturer at the Department of German Linguistics, University of Debrecen (Hungary). He specialises in lexical semantics and defended his Ph.D. dissertation on polysemy in Hungarian nouns in 2005.Csilla Rákosi is research fellow in the Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her fields of interest include argumentation theory and the philosophy of linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in 2005.

• Contents: Ekaterini Klepousniotou: Reconciling Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: On the Psychological Reality of Linguistic Polysemy – Gregory L. Murphy: Parsimony and the Psychological Representation of Polysemous Words – Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr./Julia E. Lonergan: Identifying, Specifying and Processing Metaphorical Word Meanings – Anna A. Zalizniak: The Phenomenon of Polysemy and Ways to Describe It – Gergely Pethő: On Irregular Polysemy – Georges Kleiber: Polysemy, Transfers of Meaning and Integrated Metonymy – Mária Ladányi: Systematic Polysemy of Verbs in Hungarian – Ronnie Cann/Patricia Mabugu: Constructional Polysemy: the Applicative Construction in ChiShona – Balás Szilárd: Remarks on the Aspectual Polysemy of the Hungarian Verbal Particle el ‘away/off’.