In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes
conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular
conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction,
and attention and viewpoint. One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive
semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual
material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual …

The linguistic representation of conceptual structure is the central concern of this volume
and of its companion volume. While such conceptual organization in language had once
been insu½ciently addressed, attention to it has been increasing over the last two to three
decades. The growing research in this relatively recent linguistic domainÐwhich has
generally come to be known as cognitive linguisticsÐhas developed into an alternative
approach to the study of language that now complements other approaches. The work …