This Festschrift covers a wide range of fields within linguistics, with

special focus on French lexicon, morphology and syntax and more

generally on semantics, language typology and contrastive linguistics.

The articles have been written by friends and colleagues of Michael

Herslund, Professor at Copenhagen Business School, on the occasion of

his 60th birthday. They all contribute to the international dialogue he

long has been part of, and together, they considerably further our knowledge

of language as a system and a means of communication.