Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Ontolinguistics - An outline -- Ontologies across disciplines -- Part II: Foundations, general ontologies, and linguistic categories -- The emergence of a shared action ontology: Building blocks for a theory -- Formal representation of concepts: The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology and its use in linguistics -- Linguistic interaction and ontological mediation -- Semantic primes and conceptual ontology -- Using 'Ontolinguistics' for language description -- Language as mind sharing device: Mental and linguistic concepts in a general ontology of everyday life -- Part III: Concepts with closed-class coding -- The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language: A neural model -- Postural categories and the classification of nominal concepts: A case study of Goemai -- Spatial 'on' - 'in' categories and their prepositional codings across languages: Universal constraints on language specificity -- Semantic categorizations and encoding strategies -- Part IV: Categories with open-class coding -- Taxonomic and meronomic superordinates with nominal coding -- Motion events in concept hierarchies: Identity criteria and French examples -- On the ontological, conceptual, and grammatical foundations of verb classes -- The ontological loneliness of verb phrase idioms -- Relating ontological knowledge and internal structure of eventity concepts -- About the contributors -- Index of names -- Language index -- Subject index.