RARE collection of papers on significant aspects of cognitive grammar applying an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from the leading exponents of cognitive grammar, such as Langacker, Croft, Wood, Geeraerts, Kövecses, Wildgen, and philosophers of language: Albertazzi, Marconi, Peruzzi, Violi), who, in most cases, share a phenomenological and Gestalt approach to the problem of semantics. Contents: Which Semantics? - Liliana Albertazzi. Why a mind is necessary: Conceptualization, grammar and linguistic semantics - Ronald W. Langacker. What is Montague semantics? - Diego Marconi. Construal operations in linguistics and artificial intelligence - William Croft and Esther J. Wood. Salience phenomena in the lexicon: a typology - Dirk Geeraerts. Prototypicality, typicality, and context - Patrizia Violi. Directions and perspective points in spatial perception - Liliana Albertazzi. Force and emotion - Zoltán Kövecses. The geometric roots of semantics - Alberto Peruzzi. The history and future of field semantics: from Giordano Bruno to dynamic semantics - Wolfgang Wildgen. 225x155mm. VI+270 pages. Hardcover. Spine upper edge slightly bumped. In very good condition.