Language, Cognition and Space.

Abstract

Introduction Paul Chilton Part I: Perception and space 1 The perceptual basis of spatial representation Vyvyan Evans Part II: The interaction between language and spatial cognition 2 Language and space: momentary interactions Barbara Landau, Banchiamlack Dessalegn and Ariel Micah Goldberg 3 Language and inner space Benjamin Bergen, Carl Polley and Kathryn Wheeler Part III: Typological, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches to spatial representation 4 Inside in and on: typological and psycholinguistic perspectives Michele I. Feist 5 Parsing space around objects Laura Carlson 6 A neuroscientific perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations David Kemmerer Part IV: Theoretical approaches to spatial representation in language 7 Genesis of spatial terms Claude Vandeloise 8 Forceful prepositions Joost Zwarts 9 From the spatial to the non-spatial: the ‘state’ lexical concepts of in, on and at Vyvyan Evans 10 Static topological relations in Basque Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano 11 Taking the Principled Polysemy Model of spatial particles beyond English: the case of Russian za Darya Shakhova and Andrea Tyler 12 Frames of reference, effects of motion, and lexical meanings of Japanese front/back terms Kazuko Shinohara and Yoshihiro Matsunaka Part VI: Space in sign-language and gesture 13 How spoken language and signed language structure space differently Leonard Talmy 14 Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space Irene Mittelberg Part VII: Motion 15 Translocation, language and the categorization of experience Jordan Zlatev, Johan Blomberg and Caroline David 16 Motion: a conceptual typology Stéphanie Pourcel Part VIII: The relation between space, time and modality 17 Space for thinking Daniel Casasanto 18 Temporal frames of reference Jörg Zinken 19 From mind to grammar: coordinate systems, prepositions, constructions Paul Chilton Index