Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality

1. List of contributors; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality (by Brisard, Frank); 4. Part I. Theoretical foundations; 5. The definition of modality (by Declerck, Renaat); 6. The English present: Temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 7. The organization of the German clausal grounding system (by Smirnova, Elena); 8. Grounding in terms of anchoring relations: Epistemic associations of 'present continuous' marking in Turkish (by Temurcu, Ceyhan); 9. Part II. Descriptive application: Cognitive Grammar; 10. Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of "more" and "less" grounding predications (by Smirnova, Elena); 11. New current relevance in Croatian: Epistemic immediacy and the aorist (by Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan); 12. Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing: The case of Arabic (by Zanned, Lazhar); 13. Part III. Descriptive application: Other cognitive approaches; 14. Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality (by Boogaart, Ronny); 15. Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai (by Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.); 16. The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait: When temporality conveys modality (by Patard, Adeline); 17. Name Index; 18. Subject Index