I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I At ground level -- What's cognitive about cognitive linguistics? -- Neurological evidence for a cognitive theory of syntax: Agrammatic aphasia and the spatialization of form hypothesis -- Cost in language acquisition, language processing and language change -- From cognitive psychology to cognitive linguistics and back again: The study of category structure -- Historical aspects of categorization -- Unpacking markedness -- Section II Within morphology and the lexicon -- The cognitive frame of a set of cricket terms -- Towards a cognitive account of the use of the prepositions por and para in Spanish -- What are copula verbs? -- The semantics of "empty prepositions" in French -- Getting at the meaning of make -- Motion metaphorized: The case of coming and going -- Liegen and stehen in German: Α study in horizontality and verticality -- The semantics of the Chinese verb "come" -- Touching: A minimal transmission of energy -- Section III Some of the architecture -- Complement construal in French: A cognitive perspective -- Typology of if-clauses -- Boundedness in temporal and spatial domains -- Case markers and clause linkage: Toward a semantic typology -- The thing is is that people talk that way. The question is is Why? -- A cognitive grammar account of bound anaphora -- Sequential conceptualization and linear order -- Section IV Higher levels of the architecture -- Cognitive aspects of verbal interaction -- The interaction of folk models and syntax: Case choice after prepositional verbs of cognition in German -- Computer modelling of text comprehension -- Section V The varieties in Native America -- The radial structure of the Wanka reportative -- Chiquihuitlán Mazatec postverbs: The role of extension in incorporation -- Frames and the semantics of applicatives in Tepehua -- List of contributors -- Index