Brisard Frank (Editor). Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference

Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. — xxxiv, 475 pages. — (Cognitive Linguistics Research). — ISBN: 3-11-017369-7.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.Introduction: The epistemic basis of deixis and reference
Deixis and subjectivity
Remarks on the English grounding systems
Nominal grounding
Grounding, subjectivity and definite descriptions
Interaction, grounding and third-person referential forms
The French imparfait, determiners and grounding
Deictic principles of pronominale, demonstratives, and tenses
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