Subject Index

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Introduction: Language and the cognitive construal of space XI
4. Part A Space in language
5. Section 1: Pointing, deixis, and distance
6. The Japanese verbal suffixes as indicators of distance and proximity 3
7. Demonstratives as locating expressions 29
8. ‘Here’ and ‘there’ in Croatian: a case study of an urban standard variety 49
9. Prosodic and paralinguistic signals of distance 63
10. Section 2: Conceptualizing space in prepositions and in morphology
11. The German über 73
12. The separability of German über-: A cognitive approach 109
13. Prepositional prototypes 135
14. Space and movement in the English verb system 167
15. The representation of space in English derivational morphology 197
16. Part Β Space as a cultural artifact
17. Section 3: Can language use cope with space ?
18. Spatial deixis in Afrikaans dictionaries 211
19. What good are locationals, anyway? 239
20. Iconicity in verbal descriptions of space 269
21. Section 4: Variability in the conceptualization of space
22. The syntax and semantics of locativised nouns in Zulu 287
23. Distinguishing the notion ‘place’ in an Oceanic language 307
24. The linguistic, cognitive and cultural variables of the conceptualization of space 329
25. Rethinking some universals of spatial language using controlled comparison 345
26. Part C Space as a bridge to other conceptual domains
27. Section 5: From one meaning to another
28. Polarity and metaphor in German 373
29. Metaphors of ‘total enclosure’ grammaticizing into middle voice markers 395
30. Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond
31. The story of -ing: A subjective perspective 417
32. The temporal use of Hawaiian directional particles 455
33. Temporal meanings of spatial prepositions in Polish: The case of przez and w 491
34. Viewpoint and subjectivity in English inversion 509
35. How do we mentally localize different types of spatial concepts? 527
36. Part D Space as an organizing principle of thought
37. Section 7: Discourse as space
38. Space in dramatic discourse 553
39. How space structures discourse 571
40. The (meta-)textual space 599
41. Section 8: Abstract worlds as space
42. From one meaning to the next: The effects of polysemous relationships in lexical learning 613
43. Metaphorical scenarios of science 649
44. Language, space and theography: The case of height vs. depth 679
45. List of contributors 691
46. Subject Index 697