Contents: Farrell Ackerman, A Predicate construction: Inversion in Polish; B.T.S. Atkins, The role of the example in a frame semantics dictionary; Susan Ervin Tripp, Kei Nakamura & Jiansheng Guo, Shifting face from Asia to Europe; Seiko Yamaguchi Fujii, Mental-space builders: Observations from Japanese and English conditionals; Jean Mark Gawron, Distance in construction grammar; Ferenc Kiefer, Lexical information and the temporal interpretation of discourse; George Lakoff, Reflections on metaphor and grammar; Knud Lambrecht, The pragmatics of case: On the relationship between semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic roles in English and French; Charles Li, Ancestor-descendant and cultural-linguistic relativity; Toshio Ohiro, Remarks on suspended clauses: A contribution to Japanese phraseology; Shigeko Okamoto, Pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles in Japanese; Jan-Ola =D6stman, Recasting the deictic foundation -- using physics and Finnish; Miriam Petruck, Frame semantics and the lexicon: Nouns and verbs in the body frame; Jef Verschueren, The conceptual basis of performativity