Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Language and beyond -- Chapter 1. Language and situations -- 1.1. Preliminary remarks -- 1.2. Previous approaches to situation and verb typology -- 1.3. The present approach -- 1.4. Aspectual types -- 1.5. Syntactic types -- 1.6. Summary -- Chapter 2. Language and perception -- 2.1. Preliminary remarks -- 2.2. "New" linguistic data -- 2.3. Naming strategies and lexicalization patterns -- 2.4. Descriptions of activities based on postures -- 2.5. Descriptions of actions involving a location -- 2.6. Framing strategies and the ordering of linguistic elements -- 2.7. Results from eye-tracking studies and brain scan tests -- Chapter 3. Language and cognition -- 3.1. Preliminary remarks -- 3.2. Introducing the event vs. process distinction -- 3.3. The mental model of events and its instruction -- 3.4. Linguistic evidence for the three psychological dimensions -- 3.5. Firstness, secondness and thirdness -- 3.6. The mental model of processes and its instruction -- 3.7. Background knowledge of actions -- 3.8. From assimilation to accommodation in the human mind -- 3.9. Concluding remarks -- Part II: Grammar and communication -- Chapter 4. Grammar and pragmatics -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Grammar in communication -- 4.3. Product and consumer communication -- 4.4. The layered structure of imperatives -- 4.5. Towards a deeper understanding of indirect speech acts -- 4.6. The imperative frame analysis -- 4.7. Conclusions -- Chapter 5. Grammar and semiotics -- 5.1. Preliminary remarks -- 5.2. Introduction -- 5.3. The simple sign of nouns and verbs -- 5.4. The simple signasanimage-idea pair -- 5.5. Arbitrariness and motivatedness of the simple sign -- 5.6. The complex sign as a dynamic unit - an index -- 5.7. The semiotic function of grammar.

5.8. Discussing icons, indexes and symbols -- 5.9. Conclusions -- Part III: Language inside out -- Chapter 6. From types to supertypes -- 6.1. The various typological trichotomies -- 6.2. Introducing the three linguistic supertypes -- 6.3. Supertypes and related issues -- Chapter 7. The basic voice of language -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Reality-oriented languages -- 7.3. Speaker-oriented languages -- 7.4. Hearer-oriented languages -- 7.5. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 8. Linguistic expansion -- 8.1. Introductory remarks -- 8.2. The expanding function of Russian aspect -- 8.3. The expanding function of Bulgarian mood -- 8.4. The expanding function of Danish tense -- 8.5. Recapitulating and concluding -- Chapter 9. The principal and secondary voice of language -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. The principal and secondary voice of Russian -- 9.3. The principal and secondary voice of Bulgarian -- 9.4. The principal and secondary voice of Danish -- 9.5. Conclusions -- Focusing summary -- References -- Definition list -- Index.