Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Language and the cognitive construal of space / Pütz, Martin -- Part A Space in language -- Section 1: Pointing, deixis, and distance -- The Japanese verbal suffixes as indicators of distance and proximity / Cook, Haruko Minegishi -- Demonstratives as locating expressions / Mulder, Walter De -- 'Here' and 'there' in Croatian: a case study of an urban standard variety / Fuchs, Milena Zic -- Prosodic and paralinguistic signals of distance / Ozga, Janina -- Section 2: Conceptualizing space in prepositions and in morphology -- The German über / Bellavia, Elena -- The separability of German über-: A cognitive approach / Dewell, Robert B. -- Prepositional prototypes / Rice, Sally -- Space and movement in the English verb system / Inchaurralde, Carlos -- The representation of space in English derivational morphology / Kastovsky, Dieter -- Part ¿ Space as a cultural artifact -- Section 3: Can language use cope with space ? -- Spatial deixis in Afrikaans dictionaries / Botha, Willem J. -- What good are locationals, anyway? / Casad, Eugene H. -- Iconicity in verbal descriptions of space / Wenz, Karin -- Section 4: Variability in the conceptualization of space -- The syntax and semantics of locativised nouns in Zulu / Taylor, John R. -- Distinguishing the notion 'place' in an Oceanic language / Hill, Deborah -- The linguistic, cognitive and cultural variables of the conceptualization of space / Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara -- Rethinking some universals of spatial language using controlled comparison / Neumann, Sabine / Widlok, Thomas -- Part C Space as a bridge to other conceptual domains -- Section 5: From one meaning to another -- Polarity and metaphor in German / Borneto, Carlo Serra -- Metaphors of 'total enclosure' grammaticizing into middle voice markers / Strauss, Susan -- Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond -- The story of -ing: A subjective perspective / Verspoor, Marjolijn -- The temporal use of Hawaiian directional particles / Cook, Kenneth William -- Temporal meanings of spatial prepositions in Polish: The case of przez and w / Kochanska, Agata -- Viewpoint and subjectivity in English inversion / Dorgeloh, Heidrun -- How do we mentally localize different types of spatial concepts? / Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia -- Part D Space as an organizing principle of thought -- Section 7: Discourse as space -- Space in dramatic discourse / Herman, Vimala -- How space structures discourse / Mondada, Lorenza -- The (meta-)textual space / Nöth, Winfried -- Section 8: Abstract worlds as space -- From one meaning to the next: The effects of polysemous relationships in lexical learning / Frisson, Steven / Sandra, Dominiek / Brisard, Frank / Cuyckens, Hubert -- Metaphorical scenarios of science / Jäkel, Olaf -- Language, space and theography: The case of height vs. depth / Noppen, Jean-Pierre van -- List of contributors -- Subject Index