Reviewed by Taras Shmiher, Ivan Franko National University in L’viv, Ukraine

This is the sixth collection of the Annual review of cognitive linguistics published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association. The volume contains nine articles, five reviews and two interviews.

In her article, Clara Molina (1–22) suggests reorganizing historical dictionary definitions according to the principles of prototype theory in order to reflect the semasiological profile of terms more transparently and stress the mutual interface between synchrony and diachrony. Veronika Szelid and Dirk Geeraerts (23–49) apply concepts of cognitive linguistics to traditional dialectology and discuss whether differences of culture and conceptualization can be detected within one language. The language variant under study is Moldavian Southern Csango, an archaic Hungarian dialect.

Esther Pascual (50–82) analyzes the discourse of a prosecutor’s closing argument through the conceptual blend of the deceased victim. The focus is on the constraining effects of the overall communicative context, particularly the participants’ experience, knowledge, and general contextualization, on conceptual integration. The article by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Klaus-Michael Köpcke (83–112) concentrates on the problem of defining the sentence and its types. The authors propose to regard them as complex prototypical structures on the levels of morphosyntactic form, conceptual content, and pragmatic function.

Hans C. Boas (113–44) argues that Adele Goldberg’s characterization of the interactions between lexical entries and grammatical constructions faces similar difficulties as in the Chomskyan framework. Using analogy, collocational restrictions, frequency, and productivity, the paper discusses encoding semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic information from both comprehensive and production perspectives. The corpus-based study by Marion Neubauer (145–67) investigates the cognitive grammar conceptualization of the reference point embedded in the anaphoric pronoun and of coreference between singular epicenes and plural pronouns.

Zoltán Kövecses (168–84) analyzes criticisms of ‘conceptual metaphor theory’ from the perspectives of methodology, the direction of analysis, schematicity, embodiment, and the relationship between metaphor and culture. Antonio Barcelona (208–81) reports on the study of metonymical and metaphorical motivation in English and Spanish compounds in which neither component actually refers to the compound’s referent (bahuvrihi). He provides some tentative remarks on the cognitivistic representation of their semantic structures, the connection between meaning, grammar, and prosody, and the contrasts between the two languages. Jan Nuyts (185–207) explores tense-aspect modality and related categories (deontic modality, volition, intention, and directivity). The relationship between qualificational and illocutionary categories can deepen our understanding of the cognitive organization and processing of language. The volume also contains five book reviews.