gary b. palmer (PhD 1971) is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His main research interests involve the overlap of cultural categories and polysemy in lexical constructions as an approach to ethnosemantics. He has published research on polysemy in Tagalog (Austronesian) verbal pre- fixes, cultural determinants of Shona (Bantu) noun classifiers, and polysemy in Snchitsu’umshtsn (Salish) spatial prefixes. His publications include Toward a Theory of Cultural Linguistics (1996); Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Construc- tions of Emotional Substrates (edited with Debra J. Occhi, 1999); Cognitive Lin- guistics and Non-Indo-European Languages (edited with Gene Casad, 2003); and the special issue ‘‘Talking about Thinking across Language’’ (edited with Cliff Goddard and Penny Lee; Cognitive Linguistics, 2003). His involvement with Cognitive Lin- guistics dates from his first encounter with Langacker’s Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, which he first read in the late 1980s. Gary B. Palmer can be reached at gary.palmer@unlv.edu. klaus-uwe panther (PhD 1976) is professor of English linguistics at the University of Hamburg. He has had a long-standing interest in pragmatics and its influence on grammatical structure culminated in two monographs. With Linda Thornburg, he was one of the first scholars in Cognitive Linguistics to recognize the importance of conceptual metonymy as a natural inference schema that underlies much of pragmatic reasoning (see, e.g., Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing,withLinda Thornburg, 2003). He is a member of the editorial board of Cognitive Linguistics and is on the advisory/referee board of several other journals. He is also a member of the editorial board of Benjamins’s Cognitive Linguistics in Practice series. Currently, he is the president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. Klaus-Uwe Panther can be reached at panther@uni-hamburg.de. eric pederson (PhD 1991) is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon. The overarching theme of his research is the relationship between lan- guage and conceptual processes. He was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, working within Cognitive Linguistics with George Lakoff, Dan Slobin, Eve Sweetser, and Leonard Talmy since 1980. He joined the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 1991 until 1997, where he began working on issues more specific to linguistic relativity. Relevant publications include ‘‘Geographic and Manipulable Space in Two Tamil Linguistic Systems’’ (1993); ‘‘Language as Con- text, Language as Means: Spatial Cognition and Habitual Language use’’ (1995); ‘‘Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization’’ (with Eve Danziger, Stephen Levinson, Sotaro Kita, Gunter Senft, and David Wilkins, 1998); ‘‘Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror Image Discrimination’’ (with Eve Danziger, 1998); and ‘‘Mirror-Image Discrimination among Nonliterate, Monoliterate, and Biliterate Tamil Speakers’’ (2003). In addition to linguistic rel- ativity, his general interests include semantic typology, field/descriptive linguistics (South India), and the representation of events. Eric Pederson can be reached at epederso@uoregon.edu. frank polzenhagen (PhD 2005) is a member of a research and dictionary project on West African English in progress at Humboldt University Berlin, where he xx contributors earned his doctorate. His PhD thesis explores cultural conceptualizations in West African English. In his work, he seeks to combine the cognitive linguistic approach with concepts from anthropological linguistics and with corpus-linguistic methods and to apply this framework to the study of what has been termed ‘‘New Englishes’’ in sociolinguistics. His further research interests include Critical Discourse Anal- ysis, metaphor theory, intercultural communication, and verb morphology. Frank Polzenhagen can be reached at frank.polzenhagen@rz.hu-berlin.de. martin pu ¨ tz (PhD 1987, Dr habil. 1993) is professor of linguistics and English language at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau, Germany). He taught for several years at the Universities of Duisburg, Du ¨ sseldorf, Greifswald, and Groningen. His main research interests involve the fields of applied Cognitive Linguistics, multilingualism, and foreign language teaching/learning. Among his publications are several edited volumes, including The Construal of Space in Language and Thought (with Rene ´ Dirven, 1996); Applied Cognitive Linguistics, 2 vols. (with Susanne Niemeier and Rene ´ Dirven, 2001); Cognitive Models in Lan- guage and Thought: Ideology, Metaphors and Meanings (with Rene ´ Dirven and Roslyn Frank, 2003); Language, Discourse and Ideology (with JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer and Teun van Dijk, 2004); and ‘Along the Routes to Power’: Explorations of Empowerment through Language (with Joshua A. Fishman and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, 2006). He is the review editor and an editorial board member of the journal Cognitive Linguistics.In1989, he organized, with Rene ´ Dirven, the First International Cognitive Linguistics Conference at the University of Duisburg, Germany. Since the year 2000, he has been the main organizer of the biannual International LAUD Symposium, held at Landau University, Germany. Martin Pu ¨ tz can be reached at puetz@uni-landau.de. tim rohrer (PhD 1998) took his PhD in the philosophy of Cognitive Science at the University of Oregon under the guidance of Mark Johnson. Since 1987, when he first saw the potential of using cognitive semantics as a tool to analyze the political rhetoric of international peacemaking negotiations, he has been an active re- searcher and frequent contributor to the field. In 1994, he founded the online Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor at the University of Oregon to disseminate cognitive semantics research on the World Wide Web. He has recently held a Fulbright Fellowship at the Center for Semiotic Research in Aarhus, Den- mark (where he collaborated with Per Aage Brandt and Chris Sinha on Embodi- ment Theory), and a NIH Fellowship to the Institute for Neural Computation and the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, where he conducted ERP and fMRI studies on conceptual metaphor. Currently, he is at work on a book tentatively titled Sensual Language: Embodiment, Cognition and the Brain and directs the Colorado Advanced Research Institute. Tim Rohrer can be reached at rohrer@cogsci.ucsd.edu. ted sanders (PhD 1992) is professor of Dutch language use and discourse studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. His research concentrates on discourse structure and coherence. Striving for an interdisciplinary approach, he combines Cognitive Linguistics and text linguistics with the psycholinguistics of discourse processing, as contributors xxi well as with his interest in text and document design. He is currently the head of a research project on ‘‘Causality and Subjectivity in Discourse and Cognition,’’ funded by the Dutch organization for scientific research (NWO). He is the (co-)author of several articles published in edited volumes and international journals, such as Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Processes, Journal of Pragmatics, Reading and Writing, Text,andWritten Communication. He recently coedited special issues of Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse Processes, and with Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spoo- ren, he edited Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches (2001). Ted Sanders can be reached at ted.sanders@let.uu.nl. hans-jo ¨ rg schmid (PhD 1992) holds the chair of Modern English Linguistics at Munich University, Germany. His interest in Cognitive Linguistics dates back to the late 1980s, when he started working on his PhD thesis on categorization as a basic principle of semantic analysis, published in 1993. Together with Friedrich Ungerer he wrote the first book-sized introductory text to the whole field of Cognitive Linguistics, An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics (1996; rev. 2nd ed., 2006). He has published articles on categorization, metaphor, compounding from a cognitive linguistic perspective, and the methodology of prototype theory, as well as on the reifying and encapsulating functions of abstract nouns, which are investigated in detail in his monograph English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells: From Corpus to Cognition (2000). His most recent book, Englische Morpho- logie und Wortbildung: Eine Einf € uuhrung (2005), includes a new cognitive linguis- tic perspective on English word-formation. Schmid initiated the foundation of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Cognitive Language Research at Munich Univer- sity. Hans-Jo ¨ rg Schmid can be reached at hans-joerg.schmid@anglistik.uni- muenchen.de. gunter senft (PhD 1982) is senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and extraordinary professor of general linguis- tics at the University of Cologne (see http://www.mpi.nl/world/persons/profession/ gunter.html for more information). His interest in Cognitive Linguistics dates from the 1980s, when he started investigating the system of nominal classification in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea. He has been studying the language and the culture of the Trobriand Islanders since 1982 (including 37 months of fieldwork so far). His main research interests include Austronesian (especially Oceanic) and Papuan languages, anthro- pological linguistics, pragmatics, lexical semantics, the interface between language, culture, and cognition, the conceptualization of space, and the documentation of endangered languages. His publications include the following books: Sprachliche Variet € aat und Variation im Sprachverhalten Kaiserslauterer Metallarbeiter ( 1982); Kilivila: The Language of the Trobriand Islanders (1986); Classificatory particles in Kilivila (1996); Referring to Space: Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages (1997); and Systems of Nominal Classification (2000). He is senior editor of Prag- matic, the journal of the International Pragmatics Association, and was one of the founding members of the European Society for Oceanists and of the Gesellschaft fu ¨ r bedrohte Sprachen. Gunter Senft can be reached at gunter.senft@mpi.nl. xxii contributors chris sinha (PhD 1988) is professor of psychology of language in the Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. His first degree was in developmental psychology, and he remains (if critically) a devotee of the grand narratives of Baldwin, Piaget, Vygotsky, and Wallon, as well as finding lasting inspiration in the work of Jerry Bruner and Colwyn Trevarthen. His involvement with Cognitive Linguistics was triggered by reading Langacker and Lakoff, and by the first International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Duisburg in 1989, or- ganized by Rene ´ Dirven. These enlightening experiences convinced him that Cognitive Linguistics was indispensable for interdisciplinary work in the cognitive and language sciences. His central research interest is in the developmental rela- tions between language, cognition, and culture, and he co-organized the Inter- national Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind at Portsmouth in 2004.A main aim of his research is to integrate Cognitive Linguistic with sociocultural approaches to language acquisition and development. He was the initiator of Pro- ject SCALA, which pioneered a cognitive semantic-based approach to language acquisition and development, focusing on the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of the development of spatial language and cognition. He is author of Lan- guage and Representation: A Socio-naturalistic Approach to Human Development (1988) and of numerous articles in cultural and developmental psychology, lin- guistics, education, evolutionary and comparative biology, and anthropology. Chris Sinha can be reached at chris.sinha@port.ac.uk. dirk speelman (PhD 1997) is associate professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven, where he teaches corpus linguistics and ICT for language students. In his PhD, he explored possibilities for cross-fertilization between theoretical concepts from Cognitive Linguistics (notably prototype theory) and empirical methods from quantitative corpus linguistics. Speelman is coauthor of Convergentie en divergentie in de Nederlandse woordenschat (with Dirk Geeraerts and Stefan Grondelaers, 1999). He also is author of several software tools in sup- port of quantitative corpus-based or corpus-driven analysis of language (e.g., the tool Abundantia Verborum). His main research interest lies in the fields of corpus linguistics, computational lexicology, and variationist linguistics in general. Much of his work focuses on methodology and on the application of statistical and other quantitative methods to the study of language. Dirk Speelman can be reached at dirk.speelman@arts.kuleuven.be. wilbert spooren (PhD 1989) is professor of language and communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research focuses on issues of text structure and coherence. He is interested in combining insights from the fields of Cognitive Linguistics, text linguistics, and psycholinguistics, and in doing so, ap- plies various research methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative—the latter comprising corpus studies, experiments, and survey studies). In order to stimulate the interdisciplinary discussion of issues of text structure, he has, since 1995, been involved in the organization of a series of international biannual workshops called Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse (MAD). He has published on discourse structure, genre, interestingness, and persuasiveness, in edited volumes and in contributors xxiii journals such as Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Processes, and Journal of Research in Reading. Together with Ted Sanders and Joost Schilperoord, he edited a book vol- ume on Text Representation (2001). Wilbert Spooren can be reached at w.spooren@ let.vu.nl. soteria svorou (PhD 1988) is professor of linguistics at San Jose ´ State University, California. Her main research interests lie with the intersection of lexical seman- tics, semantic typology and universals, and grammaticalization. Her involvement with Cognitive Linguistics dates from the 1980s, when she started to investigate the expression of spatial relations across languages. Her monograph, The Grammar of Space (1994), represents an example of how the theoretical tools of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze synchronic, cross-linguistic, and diachronic aspects of spatial grammatical forms. It was followed by other published work on issues of semantic typology and grammaticalization of spatial grammatical forms. Her current research interests include the syntax and semantics of multiverb constructions across languages. Soteria Svorou can be reached at ssvorou@email .sjsu.edu. leonard talmy (PhD 1972) is professor of linguistics and adjunct professor of philosophy and was director of the Center for Cognitive Science for thirteen years through summer 2004 at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His broader research interests cover Cognitive Linguistics, the properties of con- ceptual organization, and cognitive theory. His more specific interests within lin- guistics center on natural language semantics, including: typologies and universals of semantic structure; the relationship between semantic structure and formal linguistic structures—lexical, morphological, and syntactic; and the relation of this material to diachrony, discourse, development, impairment, and culture. Addi- tional specializations are in American Indian and Yiddish linguistics. Over the years, he has published several articles on these topics, which have been collected in the two-volume set, Toward a Cognitive Semantics: volume 1, Concept Structur- ing Systems; volume 2, Typology and Process in Concept Structuring (2000). He is currently working on a book for MIT Press titled The Attention System of Language. He was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in its 2002 inaugural selection of Fellows (and had been a founding member of the society). He is on a number of journal and governing boards. He is included in Outstanding People of the 20th Century and in International Who’s Who of Intellectuals (13th ed.). Leonard Talmy can be reached at talmy@buffalo.edu. john r. taylor (PhD 1979) is senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand; previously he was at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and the University of Trier, Germany. His interest in Cognitive Linguistics dates from the 1980s, when, after having completed his doctoral thesis on acoustic phonetics, he chanced upon a preprint of some chapters of Langacker’s Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. He is author of Linguistic Categorization (1989; 2nd ed., 1995; 3rd rev. ed., 2003; and translated into Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Polish), Possessives in English (1996), and Cognitive Grammar (which appeared in 2003 in the Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics series). He has also coedited two vol- xxiv contributors umes: Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World (with Robert MacLaury, 1996) and Current Approaches to Lexical Semantics (with Hubert Cuyckens and Rene ´ Dirven, 2003). Since 1996, he has been one of the editors (alongside Ronald Langacker and Rene ´ Dirven) of the series Cognitive Linguistics Research, pub- lished by Mouton de Gruyter. His main research interests are lexical semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, and phonetics/phonology in a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. John R Taylor can be reached at john.taylor@stonebow.otago.ac.nz. linda l. thornburg (PhD 1984) taught linguistics at California State University, Fresno, and Cognitive and Functional Linguistics at Eo ¨ tvo ¨ s Lora ´ nd University, Budapest. She has been an occasional lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Hamburg University. Her interest in semantic and pragmatic explanations in historical linguistics, a topic pursued in her dissertation on syn- tactic reanalysis in early English, led her quite naturally to Cognitive Linguistics. Since 1994 she has been collaborating with Klaus-Uwe Panther on various projects on the role of metonymy in conceptual and grammatical structure and language use. Thornburg and Panther’s key ideas on the role of metonymy in pragmatic inferencing were laid out in an article in the Journal of Pragmatics (1998) and applied and refined in many subsequent publications culminating in their edited volume Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing (2003). They are currently working on an edited volume Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar. Thornburg serves on the advisory boards of several (cognitive linguistic) journals, and she is a board member of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States. She is coeditor (with Janet M. Fuller) of the forthcoming Studies in Contact Linguis- tics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert. Linda L. Thornburg can be reached at lthornburg@alumni.usc.edu. michael tomasello (PhD 1980) is codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His major research interests include pro- cesses of social cognition, social learning, and communication from a develop- mental, comparative, and cultural perspective, with special emphasis on aspects related to language and its acquisition. His current theoretical focus involves processes of shared intentionality. Major publications include First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development (1992); The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999); and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2003). Michael Tomasello can be reached at tomas@eva.mpg.de. david tuggy (PhD 1981) has been a member of the Summer Institute of Lin- guistics (SIL) since 1970. He studied at the University of California, San Diego, and wrote one of the first dissertations within the Space Grammar (later Cogni- tive Grammar) framework. It was the first to be based on a non-Indo-European language. He has published a number of articles from a Cognitive Linguistics per- spective and has taught Cognitive Grammar at a number of universities and work- shops in Latin America, the United States, and elsewhere. He has published (in Spanish) a grammar of Orizaba Nawatl (available at http://www.sil.org/~dtuggy) and is coordinator of the Mexico Web site of SIL (http://www.sil.org/mexico). Among his research interests are Nahuatl, inadvertent blends and other bloopers (a contributors xxv forthcoming book is titled My Brain Has a Mind of Its Own), and lexicography. David Tuggy can be reached at david_tuggy@sil.org. mark turner (PhD 1983) is institute professor at Case Western Reserve Univer- sity. He took his PhD in English language and literature and his MA in mathe- matics from the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Death Is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism (1987); Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (1991); The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language (1996); and Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We think about Politics, Economics, Law, and Society (2001). He has been a visiting professor at the Colle ` ge de France and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities. In 1996, the Acade ´ mie franc¸aise awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la litte ´ rature franc¸aises. His Web page address is http://turner.stanford.edu. Mark Turner can be reached at mark .turner@case.edu. friedrich ungerer (PhD 1964) is emeritus professor of English linguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany. He was attracted to Cognitive Linguistics in the early 1990s and has worked mainly in the fields of lexical categorization, metaphor, and iconicity. Apart from his coauthorship of An Introduction to Cognitive Lin- guistics (with Hans-Jo ¨ rg Schmid, 1996), he has edited Kognitive Lexikologie (1998), a collection of essays, and has published a number of articles in the above areas, the most recent one on the cognitive function of derivational morphology (2002). Other current research areas are applied grammatical description and media lin- guistics. Friedrich Ungerer can be reached at friedrich.ungerer@philfak.uni- rostock.de. johan van der auwera (PhD 1980) is professor of English and general linguistics at the University of Antwerp. His research interests have always concerned lan- guage universals, but whereas he initially approached them from a logical and philosophical point of view, he has progressively become more involved in typology and, more particularly, grammatical semantics. A major focus is the study of mood and modality. Book-length results of his work include Language and Logic (1985) and the edited volumes The Germanic Languages (with Ekkehard Ko ¨ nig, 1994) and Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe (1998). His present activities are embedded in a center that brings together cognitive and typological linguistics, the Antwerp Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology (http://webhost.ua.ac.be/ cgct/). His Web pages address is http://webhost.ua.ac.be/vdauwera. Johan van der Auwera can be reached at johan.vanderauwera@ua.ac.be. karen van hoek (PhD 1992) studied Cognitive Linguistics and the acquisition of American Sign Language at the University of California, San Diego. Her disser- tation, ‘‘Paths Through Conceptual Structure: Constraints on Pronominal Anaph- ora,’’ was published by Chicago University Press as Anaphora and Conceptual Structure (1995). The work was a groundbreaking demonstration that Cognitive xxvi contributors Grammar could explain constraints on pronominal anaphora more insightfully than generative grammar accounts based on c-command. She currently works in the field of accent reduction for the company Your American Voice and does research on the application of cognitive semantics and frame theory to political arguments and speechwriting. Karen can Hoek can be reached at kvh@umich.edu. willy van langendonck (PhD 1970) is professor of linguistics at the University of Leuven. He started as a structuralist, became a generativist, turned to Genera- tive Semantics, and got interested in cognitive linguistic theories, such as Word Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, and Radical Construction Grammar. His main research interests include markedness and iconicity, reference and semantics (es- pecially proper names), and grammatical categories such as definiteness, gener- icness, number, grammatical relations, prepositions, dependency syntax, and word order. In these fields he has published a substantial number of articles in journals, readers, and handbooks. Recent titles include Word Grammar (with Richard Hudson, 1991); Ikonizit € aat in nat € uurlicher Sprache (with W.A. de Pater, 1992); ‘‘De- terminers as Heads?’’ (1994); ‘‘The Dative in Latin and the Indirect Object in Dutch’’ (1998); and ‘‘Neurolinguistic and Syntactic Evidence for Basic Level Meaning in Proper Names’’ (1999). He has also published two edited volumes on the dative (with William Van Belle, 1996, 1998). His recent research is concerned with the role of iconically formed relator constructions in cross-linguistic word order. Willy Van Langendonck can be reached at willy.vanlangendonck@arts .kuleuven.be. arie verhagen (PhD 1986) has been the chair of Dutch Linguistics at the Uni- versity of Leiden since 1998. He received his PhD at the Free University of Am- sterdam on a study of word order, presenting an account in terms of perceptual independence based on linear precedence. Soon afterwards, he started to partici- pate in the emerging community of cognitive linguists. From his dissertation work onwards, he has been especially interested in linking up the study of grammar with the use of language in discourse. He has taught at the Free University of Am- sterdam, Utrecht University, and the University of Leiden. His publications in- clude the following books: Linguistic Theory and the Function of Word Order in Dutch ( 1986), Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch (edited with Jeroen van de Weijer, 2003), Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition (2005). He was editor of the major Dutch linguistics journal Nederlandse taalkunde (and one of its predecessors) from 1981 until 1999 and editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Linguistics from 1996 until 2004. His research focuses on relations between lan- guage use and language structure, synchronically and diachronically, in a usage- based, evolutionary approach to construction grammar; special topics include (inter)subjectivity, causation, and stylistics. His Web site address is http://www .arieverhagen.nl. Arie Verhagen can be reached at arie.verhagen@let.leidenuniv.nl. sherman wilcox (PhD 1988) is professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico. His main research interests are the theoretical and applied study of signed languages. His theoretical work focuses on iconicity, gesture, and typological stud- ies of signed languages. He is widely recognized as an advocate for academic contributors xxvii acceptance of American Sign Language in universities in the United States. He also has taught signed language interpreting for many years and most recently has begun to demonstrate the application of Cognitive Linguistics to interpreting theory. He is author of several books and articles, including The Phonetics of Fingerspelling (1992); Gesture and the Nature of Language (with David F. Armstrong and William C. Stokoe, 1994); Learning to See: Teaching American Sign Language as a Second Language (with Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, 1997); and several edited collections. Sherman Wilcox can be reached at wilcox@unm.edu. hans-georg wolf (PhD 1994, Dr habil. 2001) is associate professor in the English Department and coordinator of the Program in Language and Communication at the University of Hong Kong. He has published a book on English in Cameroon (2001) and one on The Folk Model of the ‘Internal Self’ in Light of the Contemporary View of Metaphor: The Self as Subject and Object (1994). His research interests include sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, corpus linguistics, and pragmatics, and he tries to weave them into a coherent whole in his studies of cultural variation in second language varieties of English. Hans-Georg Wolf can be reached at hanswolf@hkucc.hku.hk. jordan zlatev (PhD 1997) is assistant professor at the Center for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden (see http://asip.lucs.lu.se/People/Jordan .Zlatev for more information). In his PhD dissertation ‘‘Situated Embodiment: Studies in the Emergence of Spatial Meaning,’’ he presented a synthetic biocultural conceptual framework for the study of language and cognition and its application to spatial meaning. He has continued this line of work with respect to language acquisition, ‘‘epigenetic robotics,’’ and most recently the evolution of language and its relation to gesture. He has published chapters related to spatial semantics in several volumes dealing with Cognitive Semantics, as well as articles in interdis- ciplinary journals (e.g., his 2001 ‘‘The Epigenesis of Meaning in Human Beings, and Possibly in Robots,’’ Minds and Machines). His engagement with Cognitive Lin- guistics began in 1992, while visiting the University of California, Berkeley, and collaborating with Terry Regier on the connectionist modeling of spatial language. Jordan Zlatev can be reached at jordan.zlatev@ling.lu.se. xxviii contributors Abbreviations 1 First person 2 Second person 3 Third person abl Ablative abs Absolutive acc Accusative advz Adverbializer af Agent focus all Allative ap Antipassive art Article ben Benefactive bf Beneficiary in focus cl Classifier comp Complementizer compl Completive cond Conditional cop Copula dat Dative def Definite dem Demonstrative det Determiner dir Direct ds Directional suffix emph Emphatic epistnec Epistemic necessity erg Ergative euph Euphonic f Feminine fin Finite foc Focus fut Future futpst Future past gen Genitive hon Honorific hrm Heavy reflexive marker imperf Imperfective impers Impersonal ind Indicative inf Infinitive inst Instrumental intr Intransitive inv Inverse irr Irrealis mood lf Location in focus lg Ligature loc Locative lrm Light reflexive marker m Masculine mid Middle n Noun nc Non-control ncl Noun classifier neg Negative nom Nominative nomz Nominalizer obj Object obl Oblique obsrv Observer obv Obviative part Partitive pass Passive perf Perfective pl Plural pm Predicate marker poss Possessive pot Potential pp Past participle pred Predicative pre ˆ t Preterite pro Anaphoric pronoun prol Prolative case . 20 03) . He is a member of the editorial board of Cognitive Linguistics and is on the advisory/referee board of several other journals. He is also a member of the editorial board of Benjamins’s Cognitive. professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon. The overarching theme of his research is the relationship between lan- guage and conceptual processes. He was a student at the University of. include Death Is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism (1987); Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (1991); The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and