This volume contains 16 papers selected from the 2008 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX 2), which was held in Lammi, Finland in 2008. The proceedings includes the plenary addresses by Dieter Kastovsky, whose subject was combining forms, and Elizabeth Knowles, who spoke about dictionaries of quotations. The complete table of contents showing the broad range of papers is available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hel-lex/2008/index.html along with abstracts and the complete papers in PDF format.

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