Grounding : : The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference / / ed. by Frank Brisard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Achard, Michel,; Brisard, Frank,; Doiz-Bienzobas, Aintzane,; Epstein, Richard,; Janssen, Theo A. J. M.,; Kochańska, Agata,; Langacker, Ronald W.,; Laury, Ritva,; Mortelmans, Tanja,; Mulder, Walter De,; Nuyts, Jan,; Vetters, Carl,
• HerausgeberIn: Brisard, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (475 p.) :; Num. figs.

This compilation of invited contributions, gathering an international collection of cognitive and functional linguists, offers an outline of original empirical work carried out in grounding theory. Grounding is a central notion in cognitive grammar that addresses the linking of semantic content to contextual factors that constitute the subjective ground (or situation of speech). The volume illustrates a growing concern with the application of cognitive grammar to constructions establishing deixis and reference. It proposes a double focus on nominal and clausal grounding, as well as on ways of integrating analyses across these domains.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- Introduction: The epistemic basis of deixis and reference -- Deixis and subjectivity -- Remarks on the English grounding systems -- Part I: Nominal grounding -- Grounding, subjectivity and definite descriptions -- Interaction, grounding and third-person referential forms -- The French imparfait, determiners and grounding -- Deictic principles of pronominals, demonstratives, and tenses -- Part II: Clausal grounding -- The meaning and distribution of French mood inflections -- The English present -- The preterit and the imperfect as grounding predications -- A cognitive grammar analysis of Polish nonpast perfectives and imperfectives: How virtual events differ from actual ones -- “Wieso sollte ich dich küssen, du hässlicher Mensch!” A study of the German modals sollen and müssen as “grounding predications” in interrogatives -- Grounding and the system of epistemic expressions in Dutch: A cognitive-functional view -- Subject index -- 477-478