Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Philosophy of language -- The essence of language: on Coseriu's philosophy of language -- Eugenio Coseriu's approach to language and linguistics: building a 'philosophically sustainable' linguistics -- Part II: History of the language sciences -- Coseriu as a historiographer of linguistics in relation to his linguistic ideas -- Coseriu's Hjelmslev -- Coseriu and glossematics: an uncompleted dialogue -- Part III: Theory and practice of Integral Linguistics -- Integral Linguistics as a cultural science -- Considerations on the subtle art of integrating linguistics (and/or semiotics) -- Eugenio Coseriu and the primacy of history -- At the roots of linguistic change: the historicity of language -- Coseriu's journey to the realm of linguistic change -- Eugenio Coseriu and pragmatics -- Eugenio Coseriu on immediacy, distance and discourse traditions -- System, norm and meaning -- Coseriu, significative semantics and a new system of semantic roles -- Coseriu's approach to word formation as an illustration of his theory of meaning -- The categories of the Romance verb -- The crux of metaphor: between Cognitive and Integral Linguistics -- Language as activity, linguistic knowledge and cognitive psychology: a Coserian perspective -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index