Includes bibliographical references and index.

Memory and language / Hanna Pishwa -- A constructivist epistemology for the language sciences / Ngoni Chipere -- What's a nice NP like you doing in a place like this? : the grammar and use of English inversions / Gert Webelhuth ... [et al.] -- Co-occurrence and constructions / Paul Deane -- On the reduction of complexity : some thoughts on the interaction between conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and human memory / Rainer Schulze -- Making ends meet / Uwe Multhaup -- Evaluation and cognition : inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion / Monika Bednarek -- Causality and subjectivity : the causal connectives of Modern Greek / Eliza Kitis -- Expression of goals in communication : the case of multifunctional 'try' / Hanna Pishwa -- What psycholinguistic negation research tells us about the nature of the working memory representations utilized in language comprehension / Barbara Kaup -- It utterly boggles the mind : knowledge, common ground and coherence / Wolfram Bublitz -- Remembering another's experience : epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling / Ilana Mushin -- Conversation memory : intentions, politeness, and the social context / Thomas Holtgraves -- Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory / Roger Kreuz and Aaron Ashley.