Leonard Talmy. A windowing onto conceptual structure and language

This interview is the result of a series of email exchanges with Leonard Talmy from February to May, 2005 and, from January to May, 2006. The first part, published in the previous ARCL issue (3:325–347) discusses some of the most important and, at the same time, controversial aspects of Talmy’s theory of lexicalisation patterns in motion event. This second and final part offers an overview of Talmy’s understanding of what language and cognition are.