Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. I. Toward a coherent and comprehensive linguistic theory
5. An overview of cognitive grammar 3
6. A view of linguistic semantics 49
7. The nature of grammatical valence 91
8. A usage-based model 127
9. II. Aspects of a multifaceted research program
10. The relation of grammar to cognition 165
11. Where does prototypicality come from? 207
12. The natural category MEDIUM 231
13. Spatial expressions and the plasticity of meaning 271
14. Contrasting prepositional categories 299
15. The mapping of elements of cognitive space onto grammatical relations 327
16. Conventionalization of cora locationals 345
17. The conceptualisation of vertical space in English 379
18. Length, width, and potential passing 403
19. On bounding in Lk 429
20. A discourse perspective on tense and aspect in standard modern Greek and English 447
21. Semantic extensions into the domain of verbal communication 507
22. Spatial metaphor in German causative constructions 555
23. Náhuatl causative/applicatives in cognitive grammar 587
24. III. A historical perspective
25. Grammatical categories and human conceptualization 621
26. Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics 647
27. References 679
28. Subject index 695