Introduction
I PERCEPTION AND SPACE
1. The perceptual basis of spatial representation. Vyvyan Evans
II THE INTERACTION BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND SPATIAL COGNITION
2. Language and space: Momentary interactions. Barbara Landau (John Hopkins University), Banchiamlack Dessalegn (Johns Hopkins University), and Ariel Micah Goldberg (Johns Hopkins Univeristy)
3. Language and inner space. Benjamin Bergen (University of Hawai’i, Manoa), Carl Polley (University of Hawai’i, Manoa), and Kathryn Wheeler (University of Hawai’i, Manoa)
III TYPOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND NEUROLINGUISTIC APPROAHCES TO SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
4. Inside in and on: Typological and psycholinguistic perspectives Michele Feist (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
5. Parsing space around objects. Laura Carlson (University of Notre Dame)
6. A neuroscientific perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations. David Kemmerer (Purdue University)
IV THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO SPATIAL REPRESENTATION IN LANGUAGE
7. The genesis of spatial terms. Claude Vandeloise (Louisiana State University)
8. Forceful prepositions. Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University)
9. From the spatial to the non-spatial: The ‘state’ lexical concepts of in, on and at. Vyvyan Evans
V SPATIAL REPRESENTATION IN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES
10. Static topological relations in Basque. Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Universidad de Zaragoza)
11. Taking the Principled Polysemy Model of Spatial Particles Beyond English:
The Case of Russian za. Darya Shakhova (Georgetown University) and Andrea Tyler (Georgetown University)
12. Frames of reference, effects of motion, and lexical meanings of Japanese FRONT/BACK terms. Kazuko Shinohara (University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Matsunaka (Tokyo Polytechnic University)
VI SPACE IN GESTURE AND SIGN-LANGUAGE
13. How spoken language and signed language structure space differently. Leonard Talmy (State University of New York, Buffalo)
14. Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space. Irene Mittelberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
VII MOTION
15. Translocation, language and the categorization of experience. Jordan Zlatev (Lund University), Johan Blomberg (Lund University), and Caroline David (Université de Montpellier 3)
16. Motion: A conceptual typology. Stéphanie Pourcel (Bangor University)
VIII THE RELATION BETWEEN SPACE, TIME AND MODALITY
17. Space for thinking. Daniel Casasanto (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
18. Temporal frames of reference. Jörg Zinken (Portsmouth University)
19. From mind to grammar: Coordinate systems, prepositions, constructions. Paul Chilton