A cognitive grammar analysis of Polish nonpast perfectives and imperfectives: How virtual events differ from actual ones

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Table of contents ix
5. Introduction: The epistemic basis of deixis and reference xi
6. Deixis and subjectivity 1
7. Remarks on the English grounding systems 29
8. Part I: Nominal grounding
9. Grounding, subjectivity and definite descriptions 41
10. Interaction, grounding and third-person referential forms 83
11. The French imparfait, determiners and grounding 113
12. Deictic principles of pronominals, demonstratives, and tenses 151
13. Part II: Clausal grounding
14. The meaning and distribution of French mood inflections 197
15. The English present 251
16. The preterit and the imperfect as grounding predications 299
17. A cognitive grammar analysis of Polish nonpast perfectives and imperfectives: How virtual events differ from actual ones 349
18. “Wieso sollte ich dich küssen, du hässlicher Mensch!” A study of the German modals sollen and müssen as “grounding predications” in interrogatives 391
19. Grounding and the system of epistemic expressions in Dutch: A cognitive-functional view 433
20. Subject index 467
21. 477-478 477