The essays in this volume respectively deal with: inversion in Polish; the role of the example in a frame semantics dictionary; shifting face from Asia to Europe; mental-space builders: observations from Japanese and English conditionals; distance in construction grammar; lexical information and the temporal interpretation of discourse; reflections on metaphor and grammar; the relationship between semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic roles in English and French; ancestor-descendant and cultural-linguistic relativity; remarks on suspended clauses: a contribution to Japanese phraseology; pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles in Japanese; Recasting the deictic foundation — using physics and Finnish; frame semantics and the lexicon: nouns and verbs in the body frame; and the conceptual basis of performativity.