1. Preface; 2. Dr Robert E. MacLaury 1944-2004: An Appreciation (by MacKeigan, Terri); 3. Abbreviations; 4. Section 1: Theoretical and methodological approaches; 5. The semantics of colour: A new paradigm (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 6. A grammatical network of Tzotzil-Mayan colour terms (by MacKeigan, Terri); 7. Quantitative linguistics in the study of colour terminology: A research report (by Pawlowski, Adam); 8. Basic colour terms and type modification: Meaning in relation to function, salience and correlating attributes (by Steinvall, Anders); 9. Beyond colour: Modelling language in colour-like ways (by Glaz, Adam); 10. The normativity of colour (by Saunders, Barbara); 11. Section 2: Modern languages; 12. Age-related differences in the basic colour vocabulary of French (by Forbes, Isabel); 13. Towards a general description of the semantic field of colour in European Portuguese (by Correia, Margarita); 14. Evolving secondary colours: Evidence from Sorbian (by Hippisley, Andrew); 15. Colour terms in Nova Scotia (by Lazar-Meyn, Heidi Ann); 16. Section 3: Historical approaches; 17. Political upheaval and a disturbance in the colour vocabulary of Early English (by Biggam, Carole P.); 18. Colours of the landscape: Old English colour terms in place-names (by Hough, Carole); 19. The medieval gaze at grips with a medieval world (by Huxtable, Michael J.); 20. Index