Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I - Theory -- 0. Introduction -- 1. What cognitive semantics is -- 2. Cognitive semantics compared with other descriptions of case -- Part II - Analysis -- 3. Why the Czech dative and the Russian instrumental? -- 4. Comparison of cognitive networks - the Russian dative -- 5. Analysis of the Russian instrumental -- 6. The Czech instrumental -- 7. Concluding remarks and possible universals -- Notes -- References