Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. To cut a long story short -- Chapter 2. Cognitive grammar and the cognitive -- linguistics family -- Chapter 3. A cognitive approach to -- phonology -- Chapter 4. A cognitive approach to -- morphology -- Chapter 5. Alternations in Cognitive Grammar: The -- truncation alternation and the one-stem/two-stem controversy -- Chapter 6. Neutralization and phonology-morphology -- interaction: Exceptional infinitive -- Chapter 7. Abstractness and alternatives to rule -- ordering and underlying representations: Exceptional past tense -- Chapter 8. Opacity and product-oriented -- generalizations: Exceptional imperative -- Chapter 9. Palatalization and lenition: The -- softening alternation -- Chapter 10. Opacity and non-modularity: -- Conditioning the softening alternation -- Chapter 11. The meaning of alternations: The -- truncation-softening conspiracy -- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Looking back . . . and -- ahead -- Backmatter