Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. A predicate construction: Inversion in Polish 1
5. The role of the example in a frame semantics dictionary 25
6. Shifting face from Asia to Europe 43
7. Mental-space builders 73
8. Distance in construction grammar 91
9. Lexical information and the temporal interpretation of discourse 111
10. Reflections on metaphor and grammar 133
11. The pragmatics of case 145
12. Ancestor-descendant and cultural-linguistic relativity 191
13. Remarks on suspended clauses 201
14. Pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles in Japanese 219
15. Recasting the Deictic foundation, using physics and Finnish 247
16. Frame semantics and the lexicon 279
17. The conceptual basis of performativity 299
18. Index 323