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1. French modals and speaker control; 2. Constraints on adjectival pastparticiple; 3. From resultativity to current relevance: evidence from thehistory of English and modern castilian Spanish; 4. Beyond beads on a stringand branches in a tree; 5. Menendez brothers virus: blended spaces andinternet humor; 6. Conditional, distancing, and alternative spaces; 7.Viewpoint and the definite article; 8. Blending as a central process ofgrammar; 9. Psychological predicates and the syntax-semantics interface; 10.Discourse goals and attentional processes in sentence production: the dynamicconstrual of events; 11. Salish lexical suffixes: a case ofdecategorialization; 12. Primitive and compound metaphors; 13. What's so easyabout pie?: The lexicalization of a metaphor; 14. Metaphor, metaphoricalextension, and grammaticalization: a study of Mandarin Chinese -qilai; 15.The way constructions grow; 16. Emphatic-self in discourse; 17. The metaphorsystem for morality; 18. On the formal and functional relationship betweentopics and vocatives: evidence from French; 19. A constraint on progressivegenerics; 20. Conversational use and basic meaning of Finnish demonstratives;21. Rigid syntax and flexible meaning: the case of the English ditransitive;22. Conceptual manipulation and semantic distinction: the case of Mandarinpostverbal 'De'- complements; 23. Schematic representations of discoursestructure; 24. How abstract is subjective motion? A comparison of coveragepath expressions and access path expressions; 25.The exclamative sentencetype in English; 26. The dynamic nature of conceptual structure building:evidence from conversation; 27. Situation perspective: on the relations ofthematic roles, discourse categories, and grammatical relations to figure andground; 28. Manipulation of discourse spaces in American sign language; 29.Roles, values, and possessives: deictic adjectives in the noun phrase; 30.How productive are metaphors? A close look at the participation of a fewverbs in the 'states are locations' metaphor (and others); 31. On thediscourse function of rightward movement in English; 32. Deontic andepistemic modals in ASL: a discourse analysis.