Index

• structural characteristics of natural language categorization

  • prototypicality
  • systematic polysemy
  • cognitive models
  • mental imagery
  • metaphor

• functional principles of linguistic organization

  • iconicity
  • naturalness

• conceptual interface between syntax and semantics

  • Cognitive Grammar
  • Construction Grammar

• experiential and pragmatic background of language-in-use; and the relationship between language and thought

  • questions about relativism
  • conceptual universals.