Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Tables -- 1 Intersubjectivity-mutual management of cognitive states -- 1.1 Small grammatical puzzles -- 1.2 Big theoretical issues -- 1.2.1 A human specialization -- 1.2.2 Common ground and the construal configuration -- 1.2.3 Human and animal communication, and the theory of argumentativity -- 1.3 Variation in the balance between objectivity and intersubjectivity -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- 1.3.2 An initial illustration: a range of promises -- 1.4 Prospects -- 1.4.1 The usage-based approach and empirical data -- 1.4.2 Preview -- 2 Negation and virtual argumentation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Negation and perspectives -- 2.2.1 Mental spaces -- 2.2.2 Sentential vs. morphological negation -- 2.3 Conventional linguistic constraints on intersubjective coordination -- 2.3.1 The let alone construction: some unsolved problems -- 2.3.2 Barely is not almost, let alone pretty much completely -- 2.3.3 The negation system for intersubjective coordination -- 2.3.4 Let alone and argumentation -- 2.4 'Double' negation revisited: why not impossible does not equal possible -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Finite complements-putting conceptualizers on stage -- 3.1 Introduction: two ways of looking at complements -- 3.2 Problems with clauses as constituents -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 Some issues of grammatical analysis -- 3.2.3 Some issues of discourse analysis and language acquisition -- 3.3 Use and structure of complementation constructions -- 3.3.1 The special role of complementation in discourse structure -- 3.3.2 A template and its meaning -- 3.3.3 Third-person conceptualizers and degrees of directness in intersubjective coordination -- 3.3.4 Manipulating the relation between Ground and onstage conceptualizers -- 3.3.5 Wh-extraction 'in the wild' -- 3.3.6 Impersonal intersubjectivity and the irrelevance of syntactic relations.

3.3.7 Perspectival and causal connections -- 3.3.8 Clauses as discourse segments revisited -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Discourse connections-managing inferences across perspectives -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Concession -- 4.2.1 Two paradoxes -- 4.2.2 Background assumptions and mental spaces -- 4.2.3 The double link between epistemic concessives and epistemic causals -- 4.2.4 Concessivity and negated causality -- 4.3 Arguing, reasoning, and construing causes -- 4.3.1 Causal connectives imposing constraints on perspectives -- 4.3.2 Causal connectives and the structure of the construal configuration -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- 5.1 Not everything is intersubjectivity (though intersubjectivity is widespread) -- 5.2 Grammar provides systematic instruments for mutual management-of a special kind -- 5.2.1 Looking ahead -- 5.2.2 Looking back -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.