Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Romanian -- 2. Sardinian -- 3. Italian -- 4.1 Varieties in Italy 1 -- 4.2 Varieties in Italy 2: Alpine Varieties -- 5. Ladin -- 6. French -- 7. French Varieties outside of France -- 8. Catalan -- 9. European Spanish -- 10.1 Spanish Varieties of Latin America 1: South America -- 10.2 Spanish Varieties of Latin America 2: Mexico and Central America -- 11. European Portuguese -- 12. Brazilian Portuguese -- 13. Creoles -- 14. Semantics -- 15. Structuralism -- 16. Contextualism -- 17. Indexicalism -- 18. Minimalism -- 19. Cognitive Linguistics -- 20. Referentiality -- 21. Typology -- 22. From Latin and Vulgar Latin to Romance Languages -- 23. From Old French and Middle French to Contemporary French -- 24. Language Change and Language Contact -- 25. Encoding Deictic Relations in Japanese -- 26. Encoding Deictic Relations in Mesoamerican Languages -- 27. Social Interaction -- 28. Corpus Linguistics -- 29. Gesture -- 30. Discourse Deixis -- Index