Frontmatter -- Contents Introduction I. The Cognitive foundations of language -- 1. Embodiment 2. Attention and salience 3. Frequency and entrenchment 4. Categorization (without categories) 5. Abstraction, storage and naive discriminative learning 6. Construal 7. Metonymy 8. Metaphor 9. Representing Meaning 10. Blending in language and communication 11. Grammar and cooperative communication II. Overviews -- 12. Phonology 13. Lexical semantics 14. Usage-based construction grammar 15. Discourse 16. Historical linguistics 17. Variationist linguistics 18. First language acquisition 19. Second language acquisition 20. Poetics III. Central topics -- 21. Semantic typology 22. Polysemy 23. Space 24. Time 25. Motion 26. Fictive motion 27. Prototype effects in grammar 28. Argument structure constructions 29. Default nonliteral interpretations The case of negation as a low-salience marker 30. Tense, aspect and mood 31. Grammaticalization 32. Individual differences in grammatical knowledge 33. Signed languages 34. Emergentism Indexes -- Authors index Subject index