Issues in Cognitive Linguistics

Frontmatter -- Theoretical issues -- Bridges between generative and cognitive linguistics / Newmeyer, Frederick J. -- Lexical semantics and morphology -- A modular approach to the semantics of space in language / Aurnague, Michel / Vieu, Laure -- Beer and semantics / Geeraerts, Dirk -- Is everything black and white in conceptual oppositions? / Gyori, Gabor / Hegedus, Irén -- Categorization and analogical change: The case of athematic 1sg -m in the Slavic languages / Janda, Laura A. -- Contrast and schemas: Antonymous adjectives / Mettinger, Arthur -- Figurative giving / Newman, John -- Nominalizations, metonymy and lexicographic practice / Nikiforidou, Kiki -- Langacker semantics for three Coeur d'Alene prefixes glossed as 'on' / Ogawa, Roy H. / Palmer, Gary B. -- Aspects of prepositions and prepositional aspect / Rice, Sally A. -- Some aspects of relational nouns / Tagashira, Yoshiko -- Prototype marker or reflexive marker: Russian -sja and categorical change / Williams, Adger -- Metaphor -- The strengths and weaknesses of the left/right polarity in Russian: diachronic and synchronic semantic analyses / Cienki, Alan -- 'Unnatural barriers': Why metaphor matters (or, linguistics meets the geopolitics of law) / Delaney, David / Emanatian, Michele -- Through as a means to metaphor / Hilferty, Joseph -- Is metaphor really a one-way street? One of the basic tenets of the cognitive theory of metaphor put to the test / Jäkel, Olaf -- Syntax and semantics -- Samoan as an active zone language / Cook, Kenneth William -- Two transitive construction frames in Spanish: The prepositional and the non-prepositional accusative / Delbecque, Nicole -- Swedish abstract transitional phrases: An in-between phenomenon in the linguistic system / Ekberg, Lena -- Grammatical relations in Spanish triactant clauses / García-Miguel, José M. -- Degrees of subjectivity in epistemic modals and perspective representation / Sanders, José -- Biactant Spanish clauses. Syntactic markedness and semantic prototype / Rozas, Victoria Vázquez -- To infinitives / Verspoor, Marjolijn -- Adverbial placement and iconicity / Virtanen, Tuija -- Pragmatics -- Nominal vs. temporal interpretation in discourse / Maes, Alfons / Oversteegen, Leonoor -- Markedness and prototypical speaker attributes / Van Langendonck, Willy -- Computational Linguistics -- Implementing cognitive semantics - overview of the semantic composition processes and insights into the grammatical composition processes / Holmqvist, Kenneth -- Subject index -- Cognitive Linguistics Research