Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: MODELLING PROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF (NONLINEAR) DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY -- "MISTER! YOUR BACK WHEEL'S GOING ROUND!" -- CASE, AKTIONSART AND ERGATIVITY. A SEMANTICAL BASE FOR TYPOLOGICAL ISSUES -- DYNAMIC AND ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR A THEORY OF THE LEXICON -- DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF NOMINAL COMPOSITION -- PART TWO: THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE -- DYNAMIC SEMANTICS -- LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN AN INTERACTIVE, SEMANTIC-COGNITIVE, AND NEUROLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE -- NEW WORDS, COMPLEXITY AND ARBITRARINESS -- SPEECH ACTS AND CONTEXT CHANGE -- PART THREE: LANGUAGE PROCESSES WITHIN DIFFERENT FRAMEWORKS (LOGICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; STATISTICS) -- THE DYNAMIC INTERPRETATION OF DISCOURSE -- USER MODELLING IN ANAPHORA GENERATION: ELLIPSIS AND DEFINITE DESCRIPTION -- STATISTICAL MODELING OF THE SPEECH FLOW -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS