Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- Introduction: The epistemic basis of deixis and reference / Brisard, Frank -- Deixis and subjectivity / Langacker, Ronald W. -- Remarks on the English grounding systems / Langacker, Ronald W. -- Part I: Nominal grounding -- Grounding, subjectivity and definite descriptions / Epstein, Richard -- Interaction, grounding and third-person referential forms / Laury, Ritva -- The French imparfait, determiners and grounding / Mulder, Walter De / Vetters, Carl -- Deictic principles of pronominals, demonstratives, and tenses / Janssen, Theo A. J. M. -- Part II: Clausal grounding -- The meaning and distribution of French mood inflections / Achard, Michel -- The English present / Brisard, Frank -- The preterit and the imperfect as grounding predications / Doiz-Bienzobas, Aintzane -- A cognitive grammar analysis of Polish nonpast perfectives and imperfectives: How virtual events differ from actual ones / Kochańska, Agata -- "Wieso sollte ich dich küssen, du hässlicher Mensch!" A study of the German modals sollen and müssen as "grounding predications" in interrogatives / Mortelmans, Tanja -- Grounding and the system of epistemic expressions in Dutch: A cognitive-functional view / Nuyts, Jan -- Subject index -- Backmatter |