Note on Supplementary Material vii
Preface viii
About the Author x
1 Setting the Stage: Meaning, Cognition, Culture, and
Crosslinguistic Variation 1
2 Field Semantics: Studying Meaning without Native Speaker
Intuitions 20
3 Data Gathering in Linguistics: a Practical Epistemology of
Elicitation Techniques 37
4 Sources of Evidence: Semantic and Pragmatic Diagnostics 59
5 Ethnosemantics and Cognitive Anthropology: a Short History 79
6 Semantic Typology: the Crosslinguistic Study of Semantic
Categorization 99
7 Framing Whorf: Reference Frames in Language, Culture,
and Cognition 116
8 Doing the Math: Quantitative Methods in Semantic Typology 137
9 Event Description: Variation at the Syntax-Semantics Interface 157
10 The Language-Specificity of Conceptual Structure: Taking Stock 181
About the Series Editor 199
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers 200