| List of figures | |
| List of tables | |
| Preface | |
| Pt. 1 | Background | 1 |
| 1 | Cognitive Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics | 3 |
| 2 | Cognitive Grammar: An overview | 20 |
| 3 | The symbolic thesis | 38 |
| 4 | The symbolic thesis: Some questions and answers | 61 |
| 5 | Phonological structure in Cognitive Grammar | 78 |
| 6 | Semantic structure in Cognitive Grammar | 96 |
| Pt. 2 | Basic Concepts | 121 |
| 7 | Schema and instance | 123 |
| 8 | Schema and instance in phonology | 143 |
| 9 | Schema and instance in symbolic units | 164 |
| 10 | Meaning: Profile, base, and domain | 186 |
| 11 | Nominal and relational profiles | 205 |
| 12 | Syntagmatic relations: Combining semantic units | 225 |
| 13 | Syntagmatic relations in phonology | 243 |
| Pt. 3 | Morphology | 263 |
| 14 | Morphology | 265 |
| 15 | Analysability and productivity | 281 |
| 16 | Schema competition | 298 |
| 17 | Kinds of symbolic units | 323 |
| Pt. 4 | Nouns, Verbs, and Clauses | 341 |
| 18 | Nouns and nominals | 343 |
| 19 | Count nouns and mass nouns | 366 |
| 20 | Tense and aspect | 389 |
| 21 | Clause structure | 413 |
| Pt. 5 | More on Meaning | 437 |
| 22 | Domains | 439 |
| 23 | Networks and complex categories | 461 |
| Pt. 6 | Approaches to Metaphor | 485 |
| 24 | Metaphor: The Lakovian approach | 487 |
| 25 | Jackendoff and Langacker on 'go' | 505 |
| 26 | Alternatives to metaphor | 519 |
| Pt. 7 | Idioms and Constructions | 537 |
| 27 | Idioms, formulas, and fixed expressions | 539 |
| 28 | Constructions | 561 |
| Appendix | 586 |
| Glossary | 588 |
| References | 593 |
| Name index | 613 |
| Subject index | 617 |