Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- 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.