Preface 9 Table of ConTenTs Juan Gabriel Vázquez González Preface x antonio barcelona Metonymy in Meaning and Form, with Special Attention to its Role in Lexical Semantic Change xx JaVier e. Díaz Vera Calculating Indexes of Lexical Convergence and Divergence Through Time and Space xx Francisco GonzálVez The Fortunes of the Competition between the Accusative and Ininitive and the NP + PRED Complement Constructions after Verba Cogitandi in English: A Construction Grammar View 51 Mª carMen GuarDDon anelo A Cognitive Approach to the Diachronic Study of Spatial Prepositions xx isabel VerDaGuer anD natalia JuDith laso Polysemy in a Corpus of Scientiic English: a Case Study xxx reGina Gutiérrez Pérez Polysemy, Metaphor and Diachrony. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Body Metaphors xx