Space in Languages

1. Introduction: Space, language, and cognition: Some new challenges (by Hickmann, Maya); 2. Part I - Typology of linguistics systems: Universals, variability, and change; 3. Encoding the distinction between location, source, and destination: A typological study (by Creissels, Denis); 4. The expression of static location in a typological perspective (by Grinevald, Colette); 5. What makes manner of motion salient?: Explorations in linguistic typology, discourse, and cognition (by Slobin, Dan I.); 6. The semantic structure of motion verbs in French: Typological perspectives (by Kopecka, Anetta); 7. From personal deixis to spatial deixis: The semantic evolution of demonstratives from Latin to French (by Marchello-Nizia, Christiane); 8. Motion events in Chinese: A diachronic study of directional complements (by Peyraube, Alain); 9. Part II - The nature and uses of space in language and discourse; 10. Are there spatial prepositions? (by Vandeloise, Claude); 11. Deitic space in Wolof: Discourse, syntax and the importance of absence (by Robert, Stephane); 12. The semantics of motion verbs: Action, space, and qualia (by Cadiot, Pierre); 13. The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language (by Talmy, Leonard); 14. Iconicity and space in French sign language (by Sallandre, Marie-Anne); 15. Part III - Space, language, and cognition; 16. On the very idea of a frame of reference (by Dokic, Jerome); 17. The relativity of motion in first language acquisition (by Hickmann, Maya); 18. Spatial language and spatial representation: Autonomy and interaction (by Landau, Barbara); 19. Deficits in spatial discourse of Alzheimer patients (by Denis, Michel); 20. Index