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