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Preface
Publication Sources
Chapter 1 Constructions in Cognitive Grammar
1. Architecture
2. Basic semantic notions
3. Prototypical constructions
4. Non-prototypical constructions
5. Grammatical dependencies
6. Constituency
7. Conclusion
Chapter 2 Metonymy in grammar
1. Indeterminacy
2. Active zones
3. Reference point constructions
4. Complex things and relationships
5. Other phenomena
Chapter 3 A Constructional approach to grammaticization
1. The source construction
2. Component meanings
3. Integration
4. The indefinite article
5. Restructuring
Chapter 4 Possession, location, and existence
1. What is "possession"?
2. Possessive grounding
3. Nominal and clausal possession
4. HAVE possessives
5. BE possessives
6. Diachronic perspective
Chapter 5 On the subject of impersonals
1. The problem
2. Alternations in focal prominence
2.1. Basic grammatical notions
2.2. Actor defocusing
2.3. Non-participant trajectors
3. The specification of nominal referents
3.1. Nominal organization
3.2. Definites
3.3. Delimitation
3.4. Definite impersonals
3.5. Vagueness
4. The control cycle
4.1. The general model
4.2. Epistemic level
5. What does it mean?
5.1. Putting the pieces together
5.2. Reconciliation
6. Impersonal constructions
7. Further prospects
Chapter 6 Enunciating the parallelism of nominal and
clausal grounding
1. What is at issue?
2. Control
3. (Inter)Action
4. Statements and levels of reality
5. Clausal grounding
6. Grounding and discourse
7. Nominal grounding: Effective level
8. Nominal grounding: Epistemic level
9. Grounding quantifiers.
Chapter 7 The English present: Temporal coincidence vs.
epistemic immediacy
1. Framing the issue
2. Temporal coincidence
2.1. Present perfectives
2.2. Non-present uses
3. Epistemic immediacy
3.1. General considerations
3.2. An epistemic model
3.3. Non-modal clauses
4. Modals
5. Summing up
Chapter 8 A functional account of the English auxiliary
1. The formalist account
2. Functions and systems
3. Global organization
3.1. Nominals and finite clauses
3.2. Grounding and grounded structure
3.3. Existential verbs
3.4. The interactive system
3.5. Levels of clausal organization
4. Basic clauses
4.1. The grounded structure
4.2. The grounding system
4.3. The role of do
5. Interaction
5.1. Existential verb
5.2. Existential core
5.3. Layering
5.4. Anchoring
5.5. Inversion
5.6. Questions
Chapter 9 Aspects of the grammar of finite clauses
1. Finite clauses and the control cycle
2. The virtuality of clausal grounding
3. Finite clause complements
4. Factivity
5. Impersonals
Chapter 10 Finite complements in English
1. Conceptions of reality
2. Grammatical marking
3. Cognitive models
4. Personal predicates
5. Impersonal predicates
Chapter 11 Subordination in Cognitive Grammar
I. Sources of asymmetry
2. Constituency and profiling
3. An alternative account
4. Broader issues
Chapter 12 The conceptual basis of coordination
1. Prerequisites
1.1. Conceptual semantics
1.2. Symbolic grammar
2. Conjunction and/or disjunction
2.1. AND
2.2. OR
3. Basic coordination
4. Complex constructions
4.1. Non-constituent coordination
4.2. Discontinuity
5. Final word
References
Author index
Subject index