Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope, and Methodology

From the contents: Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise (Ronald W. Langacker). - Some contributions of typology to cognitive linguistics (William Croft). - Methods and generalizations (Gilles Fauconnier). - Compositionality and blending: semantic composition in a cognitively realistic framework (Eve Sweetser). - Idealistic and empirical tendencies in cognitive linguistics (Dirk Geeraerts).