Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Index of Tables -- Table of Content -- Part I: Theoretical Preambel -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2: Cognitive Representation of Knowledge: Spatial Mental Models -- Part II: Linguistic encodings of spatial mental models: the case studies -- Chapter 3: Figure-ground reversals in language -- Chapter 4: Degrees of specificity in spatial semantics -- Chapter 5: Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene -- Part III: Spatial concepts as landmarks: cognitive semantics meets cognitive anthropology -- Chapter 6: Spatial concepts, language and practice in Eipo and Dene -- Chapter 7: Closing the stage -- Bibliography -- Index