This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions, in a variety of languages including English, German, Dutch and Polish. Besides analyses of "objective construal", it reflects interest in subjectivity.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Editors' Foreword; 3. Pragmatic Conditionals (by Athanasiadou, Angeliki); 4. How Polish Structures Space: Prepositions, Direction Nouns, Case, and Metaphor (by Dancygier, Barbara); 5. Case Meaning and Sequence of Attention: Source Landmarks as Accusative and Dative Objects of the Verb (by Dewell, Robert B.); 6. Fijian Children's Possessive Categories and Constructions (by Griffiths, Patrick D.); 7. Facing up to the Meaning of 'face up to': A Cognitive Semantico-Pragmatic Analysis of an English Verb-Particle Construction (by Hampe, Beate); 8. Gerundive Nominalization: From Type Specification to Grounded Instance (by Heyvaert, Liesbet); 9. A Cognitive Approach to Errors in Case Marking in Japanese Agrammatism: The Priority of the Goal -ni over the Source -kara (by Ihara, Hiroko); 10. Verbal Aspect and Construal (by Kochanska, Agata); 11. How I got myself arrested: Underspecificity in Grammatical Blends as a Source for Constructional Ambiguity (by Mandelblit, Nili); 12. Konjunktiv II and Epistemic Modals in German: A Division of Labour (by Mortelmans, Tanja); 13. Subjectivity and Conditionality: The Marking of Speaker Involvement in Modern Greek (by Nikiforidou, Kiki); 14. English Imperatives and Passives (by Takahashi, Hidemitsu); 15. Lexical Causatives in Thai (by Thepkanjana, Kingkarn); 16. Cognitive Models in Transitive Construal in the Japanese Adversative Passive (by Tsuboi, Eijiro); 17. Caused-Motion and the 'Bottom-Up' Role of Grammar (by Leek, Frederike van der); 18. Addresses; 19. Index