THE GRAMMAR OF SPACE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. The Conceptual Framework -- 1. Language and the world -- 1.1 Knowledge of the physical world -- 1.2 Our conceptual world -- 1.3 Experience, cognition and language -- 1.4 On the nature of language -- 1.5 The linguist's enterprise -- 2. Language and spatial relations -- 2.1 Locating entities -- 2.1.1 Region -- 2.1.2 Locating with respect to interior region -- 2.1.3 Locating with respect to exterior region -- 2.1.4 Reference frames -- 2.1.5 Locating with respect to plural entities -- 2.2 Orienting movements -- 2.2.1 Orienting movements with respect to source, destination and point in path -- 2.2.2 Orienting movements with respect to path -- 2.2.3 Orienting movements in terms of their directionality -- 3. The linguistic expression of spatial relations -- 3.1 The meaning of spatial grams -- 3.2 The form of spatial grams -- 3.2.1 Internal structure -- 3.2.2 Interaction with other elements -- Chapter 2. General Methodology -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Universais and methodology -- 2. The data base -- 2.1 Sampling -- 2.1.1 Sources -- 2.2 Coding -- 2.2.1 The pilot study -- 2.2.2 Selection criteria -- 2.2.3 Coding of formal characteristics -- 2.2.4 Coding of meaning -- 2.3 Data base design -- 3. The frame of data analysis -- Chapter 3. The Evolution of Spatial Grams -- 1. Universais and diachrony -- 1.1 The emergence of grammatical forms -- 2. Issues of grammaticization of spatial grams -- 2.1 Lexical sources -- 3. Nominal sources -- 3.1 Body parts -- 3.1.1 Two models for the evolution of body-part terms to spatial grams -- 3.2 Environmental landmarks -- 3.3 Relational object parts -- 3.4 Abstract spatial notions -- 3.5 The path of semantic evolution -- 3.5.1 Morphosyntactic consequences -- 4. Verbal sources.

4.1 Serial-verb constructions -- 4.2 Participles and spatial grams -- 4.3 The verbal model -- 5. Evolution and the acquisition of spatial grams -- Chapter 4. The Front - Back Axis -- 0. Introduction -- 1. FRONT-REGION spatial relations -- 1.1 ANTERIOR definition -- 1.2 ANTERIOR distribution in the sample -- 1.3 ANTERIOR and other uses -- 1.3.1 Other spatial uses -- 1.3.2 Non-spatial uses -- 1.3.3 Temporal uses -- 1.3.4 ANTERIOR as a derived use -- 2. BACK-REGION spatial relations -- 2.1 POSTERIOR definition -- 2.2 POSTERIOR distribution in the sample -- 2.3 POSTERIOR and other uses -- 2.3.1 Other spatial uses -- 2.3.2 Non-spatial uses -- 2.3.3 Temporal uses -- 3. FRONT-REGION, BACK-REGION and movement -- 3.1 Variation in specification of FRONT-/ BACK-REGION as destination, source and point-in-path -- 4. The semantic space of FRONT-/BACK-REGION grams and grammaticiza-tion -- 5. The morphology of FRONT-REGION and BACK-REGION grams -- 5.1 The degree of fusion of F-REGION and B-REGION grams -- 5.1.1 The scope elements of F-/B-REGION grams -- 5.1.2 The hosts of F-/B-REGION grams -- 5.1.3 The order of gram and its scope -- 5.2 Internal structure of the grams -- 5.2.1 Monomorphemic grams -- 5.2.2 Ρolymorphemic gram composition patterns -- 5.2.3 Internal gram fusion -- 5.2.4 F-/B-REGION grams and genitive markers -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- 1. On the emergence and evolution of spatial grams -- 2. Semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of a semantic subdomain -- 3. Some implications of the notion of "region" -- Notes -- Appendix A. The SpaceCats Sample -- Appendix B. Coding Manual -- Section 1: Coding Morpheme Data (Page 1) -- Section B: Coding uses (page 2) -- Appendix C. Meaning component working definitions -- Appendix D. Frequency of meaning components in the data base -- Appendix E. Nominal sources of spatial grams -- 1. FRONT-REGION.

2. BACK-REGION -- 3. TOP-REGION -- 4. BOTTOM-REGION -- 5. SIDE-REGION -- 6. EDGE -- 7. MEDIAL-REGION -- 8. INTERIOR-REGION -- 9. EXTERIOR-REGION -- 10. ACROSS -- 11. AROUND -- 12. ALONG -- 13. PROXIMAL -- 14. SUPPORT/CONTIGUOUS -- 15. AT THE END -- 16. CHEZATIVE -- 17. THROUGH, VIA -- 18. ALLATIVE -- 19. ABLATIVE -- Bibliography -- Language Index -- Name Index -- Subject Index.