This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception a

Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for

This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language p

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic t

The aim of this book is to present significant aspects of cognitive grammar by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. The book provides an interplay of contrib