Brisard, Frank. <br/><br/>
Grounding :  The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (512 pages) 
 - Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] Series ;  v.21 .
 - Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- 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 Jan Nuyts -- Subject index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110899801 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cognitive grammar.<br/>Grammar, Comparative and general -- Deixis.<br/>Reference (Linguistics).
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P165.G76 2002eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>415