Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Why cognitive linguists should care about the Slavic languages and vice versa -- Nominative and instrumental variation of adjectival predicates with the Russian copula byt': reference time, limitation, and focalization -- Why double marking in the Macedonian dativus sympatheticus? -- What makes Russian bi-aspectual verbs special? -- Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present tense -- Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of grammar? -- Conjunctions, verb forms, and epistemic stance in Polish and Serbian predictive conditionals -- Degrees of event integration. A binding scale for [VFIN VINF] structures in Russian -- The 'impersonal' impersonal construction in Polish. A Cognitive Grammar analysis -- A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: the case of Old Czech věřící -- A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian -- The rise of an epistemic pragmatic marker in Balkan Slavic: an exploratory study of nešto -- Iconicity and linear ordering of constituents within Polish NPs -- Discourse-aspectual markers in Czech sound symbolic expressions: Towards a systematic analysis of sound symbolism -- Backmatter.