Grounding : : The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference /

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

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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 c...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (475 p.) :; Num. figs.
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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

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