CONSTRUCTIONS IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Foreword -- Pragmatic Conditionals -- 1. Introduction: Types of conditionals -- 2. General characteristics of pragmatic conditionals (PCs) -- 3. Identifying conditionals -- 4. Inferencing conditionals -- 5. Discourse conditionals -- 6 Metacommunicative conditionals -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- How Polish Structures Space Prepositions, Direction Nouns, Case, and Metaphor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Direction nouns -- 3. Prepositions and case -- 4. Metaphorical extensions -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Case Meaning and Sequence of Attention Source Landmarks as Accusative and Dative Objects of the Verb -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Trajector-centered source paths -- 3. LM-centered source paths -- 4. Nominative source-path TRs with accusative source LMs -- 5. Interactive separation, shared focus, and the dative -- 6. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Fijian Children's Possessive Categories and Constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Patterns in the data -- 3. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Facing up to the Meaning of 'face up to' A Cognitive Semantico-Pragmatic Analysis of an English Verb-Particle Construction -- 1. Goals of this analysis -- 2. The phrasal verb in lexicography -- 3. The phrasal verb as a marked lexical item -- 4. A cognitive semantic analysis of 'to face' and 'to face up to' -- 5. Pragmatic characteristics of the verb-particle construction -- 6. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Gerundive Nominalization From Type Specification to Grounded Instance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nonfinite clausal type specification -- 3. Different kinds of nominalization -- 4. Means of instantiation and grounding -- 5. Factive Nominais? -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

A Cognitive Approach to Errors in Case Marking in Japanese Agrammatism The Priority of the Goal -ni over the Source -kara -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Outline of case particles in Japanese -- 3. Characteristics of agrammatism -- 4. Experiment and results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Verbal Aspect and Construal -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An analysis of the data -- 3. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- How I got myself arrested Underspecificity in Grammatical Blends as a Source for Constructional Ambiguity -- 1. Grammatical blending in the use of syntactic constructions -- 2. Blending operations in the Hebrew morphological binyanim system -- 3. Blending and underspecification in French causative-passive constructions -- Notes -- References -- Konjunktiv II and Epistemic Modals in German A Division of Labour -- 1. Subjectivity and 'grounding predications -- 2. Mood as a 'grounding predication' in German -- 3. The German epistemic modal verbs as periphrastic modals -- 4. The past subjunctive forms of the German epistemic modal verbs -- 5. An analysis of the degree of grammaticalization of epistemic dürfte -- 6. Speaker orientation -- 7. A constrained division of labour -- Notes -- References -- Subjectivity and Conditionality The Marking of Speaker Involvement in Modern Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conditionals with ama: from simultaneity to speaker involvement -- 3. Ean conditionals: from concrete to discourse deixis -- 4. Conditionals with na: grounded conditionality -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- English Imperatives and Passives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English imperatives and their four features -- 3. A cognitive (image-schematic) model of imperatives -- 4. English imperatives and passives -- 5. Japanese imperatives and passives -- Notes -- References.

Lexical Causatives in Thai -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The windowing of attention in language -- 3. Semantic differences between syntactic causatives and lexical causatives -- 4. Types of lexical causatives in Thai -- 5. The so-called suppletive lexical causative forms -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Cognitive Models in Transitive Construal in the Japanese Adversative Passive -- 1. The Japanese adversative passive: basic facts and previous analyses -- 2. Issues to be addressed -- 3. Cognitive models underlying the Japanese adversative passive -- 4. Apparent counterexamples -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Caused-Motion and the 'Bottom-Up' Role of Grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbal and constructional polysemy: different cognitive approaches -- 3. The caused-motion construction -- 4. Arguments against additional CAUSE and MOVE verb senses -- 5. A compositional account -- 6. Predictable or not, that is the question -- 7. Concepts are blind without percepts, percepts are vague without concepts -- Notes -- References -- Addresses -- Index.