1. Introduction (by Haiman, John); 2. Part I: Motivation; 3. Diagrammatic iconicity in stem-inflection relations (by Bybee, Joan L.); 4. Temporal sequence and Chinese word order (by Tai, James H-Y.); 5. Symmetry (by Haiman, John); 6. The inherent iconism of intonation (by Bolinger, Dwight); 7. Observations and speculations on subjectivity (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 8. The iconicity of the universal categories "noun" and "verb" (by Hopper, Paul J.); 9. Part II: Isomorphism and automorphism; 10. Iconicity, isomorphism, and non-arbitrary coding in syntax (by Givon, T.); 11. The Child as a linguistic icon-maker (by Slobin, Dan I.); 12. Iconicity and grammatical meaning (by Kirsner, Robert S.); 13. some iconic relationships among place, time, and discourse deixis (by Greenberg, Joseph H.); 14. Conditional markers (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 15. Part III: Competing motivations; 16. "oats" and "wheat": the fallacy of arbitrariness (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 17. Competing motivations (by Du Bois, John W.); 18. The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto-Bruman: a case study in motivated change (by DeLancey, Scott); 19. Index of Languages; 20. Index of Names; 21. Index of Topics