I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Syntactic iconicity in language -- Iconicity in the basic serialization rules of Modern German -- Iconicity, markedness, and processing constraints in frozen locutions -- Nonarbitrariness and iconicity: Coding possibilities -- On language internal iconicity -- Semantic constraints on phonologically independent freezes -- Categories of word order iconicity -- Homo loquens as "sender-receiver" (i.e., transceiver) and the raison d'être of sememic, lexemic and morphemic prefabs in natural language structures and language use -- Deixis as an iconic element of syntax -- A binary approach to iconicity in word order -- The iconicity of "dative shift" in English: Considerations from information flow in discourse -- The iconicity of focus and existence in Modern Hebrew -- Iconicity in the lexicon and its relevance for a theory of morphology -- Adjectives vs. verbs: The iconicity of part-of-speech membership -- Part II Syntactic iconicity in literature -- Triplicity and textual iconicity: Russian literature through a triangular prism -- The iconicity of metaphor -- Iconicity of expressive syntactic transformations -- Part III Syntactic iconicity in psychology -- Motor theory of language in relation to syntax -- The psychological basis of syntactic iconicity -- Spatial structure as a syntactical or a cognitive operation: Evidence from signing and nonsigning children -- Relationship between language and motor action revisited -- Preservation of syntactic icons in Alzheimer's disease -- Aphasia and syntactic iconicity -- Part IV Syntactic iconicity in philosophy -- Syntactic iconicity and connectionist models of language and cognition -- Pragmatics and iconicity -- Index of subjects -- Index of names