This book applies the theory of Cognitive Linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in Non-Indo-European languages. In previous studies of languages from Non-Indo-European families, Cognitive Linguistics has been remarkably useful in explaining non-prototypical structures as well as more common ones. The book expands that effort into a new set of families and languages.FROM THE CONTENTS:Eugene H. Casad and Gary B. PalmerIntroduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex categoriesTHE AMERICASSouth America: uechua Rick Floyd:Completion, comas, and other 'downers': observations on the Wanka directional suffix -lpu Central America: Uto-Aztecan Eugene H. Casad: Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors David H. Tuggy: Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes North America: Salish David BeckConceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of speech in Upper Necaxa Totonac and other languages ASIA AND WESTERN PACIFIC RIMAUSTRONESIAN / HAWAIIAN Kennneth William CookHawaiian 'o as an indicator of nominal salience ISNAGRodolfo R. BarlaanAnimism exploits linguistic phenomena TAGALOG Gary B. PalmerThe Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy, polysemy, and voice THAI Douglas Inglis: Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in Thai Kingkarn ThepkanjanaA cognitive account of the causative/inchaoative alternation in Thai Margaret UkosakulConceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai 'face' Jordan ZlatevHolistic spatial semantics of Thai CHINESE Ning YuThe bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: What do we do and mean with "hands" JAPANESE AND KOREAN Kaoru HorieWhat cognitive linguistics can reveal about complementation in non-IE languages Case studies from Japanese and Korean Satoshi UeharaZibun reflexivization in Japanese: a Cognitive Grammar approachEUROPE:FINNISH Mari Siiroinen: Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbsCOMPARISONS AND CONTRASTSFoong Ha Yap and Shoichi IwasakiFrom causatives to passives: A passage in some East and Southeast Asian languagesSubject IndexLanguage Index