Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research -- Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of variation in meaning -- Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology -- Monosemy versus polysemy -- The grammaticalization of alltså and således: Two Swedish conjuncts revisited -- Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning -- Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of usage in context -- Growth of a lexical network: Nine English prepositions in acquisition -- Image schemas and category coherence: The case of the Portuguese verb deixar -- The Nawatl verb kīsa: A case study in polysemy -- A diachronic perspective on prototypicality: The case of nominal adjectives in Japanese -- Containment, support, and linguistic relativity -- The Dutch hedges echt and gewoon: Markers of prototypicality? -- Polysemy or generality? Mu. -- Backmatter