This collection is a sequel to the volume published by the same editors and with the same title in 1990 (RGL 102, out of print). It assembles articles describing, with reference to the present status of research, the incidence of 'internationalisms' in languages hitherto entirely or largely neglected in this respect (Dutch, Hungarian, Turkish, Japanese, Thai, Singhalese). These studies indicate the practical purposes that the results of research on internationalism can serve, notably in connection with lexicography and foreign-language teaching.

This collection of papers opens a debate on the relationship between processes of grammaticalisation and systems of word-classes. It centers on the question of how diachronic grammaticalization processes and synchronic hierarchies of grammaticality relate to the lexico-grammatical categorization of the word inventory in natural languages (= systems of word-classes). Whereas systems of word-classes are normally only seen as an external system of reference for processes of grammaticalization, the papers in this volume inquire into the grammaticalization of the word-classes themselves (in the language system and in language acquisition).

"Nomination" ist kein eingefuhrter linguistischer Terminus mit verbindlicher Definition. Allgemein bezeichnet der Ausdruck diejenigen sprachlichen Operationen, mit deren Hilfe ein Sprecher gemeinte Gegenstande, Sachverhalte oder Begriffe dem Horer verfugbar macht. Die Mittel nominativer Operationen sind teils fertige lexikalische Einheiten, teils aber auch Verfahren, mit deren Hilfe nominative Einheiten fallweise neu gebildet werden. Die Beitrage des Bandes befassen sich mit den linguistischen, psychologischen und terminologischen Aspekten des sprachlichen Nennens.