This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive int

The 15 essays in this volume bring together research and theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, present

Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature

Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typological

How do people know where in the world they are? How do they find their way about? These are the sort of questions about spatial orientation with which this book