| Preface | p. vii |
| Clause structure | p. 1 |
| Basics of cognitive grammar | p. 1 |
| Cognitive abilities | p. 2 |
| Lexical meaning | p. 4 |
| Lexical classes | p. 8 |
| Symbolic complexity | p. 12 |
| Extension to grammar | p. 18 |
| Application to clause structure | p. 23 |
| Conceptual archetypes | p. 24 |
| Grammatical relations | p. 27 |
| Case marking | p. 35 |
| Marked coding | p. 39 |
| Conclusion | p. 43 |
| Evidence for descriptive constructs | p. 45 |
| "Invisible" semantic constructs | p. 46 |
| Scope | p. 49 |
| Search domain | p. 53 |
| Active zone | p. 62 |
| Setting vs. participant | p. 67 |
| Semantics and grammar | p. 70 |
| The meaning of of | p. 73 |
| The question of meaningfulness | p. 73 |
| Complement vs. modifier | p. 77 |
| Nominal periphrasis | p. 83 |
| Conclusion | p. 90 |
| A dynamic usage-based model | p. 91 |
| The usage-based conception | p. 91 |
| Psychological phenomena | p. 93 |
| Processing interpretation | p. 95 |
| Basic linguistic problems | p. 98 |
| Categorization of usage events | p. 99 |
| Selection of categorizing structures | p. 104 |
| Categorization vs. construction | p. 107 |
| Composition | p. 109 |
| Degrees of regularity | p. 113 |
| Distribution | p. 117 |
| Structural applications | p. 121 |
| Lexicon and grammar | p. 122 |
| Lexical semantics | p. 124 |
| Phonology | p. 128 |
| Morphology | p. 131 |
| Morphophonemics | p. 135 |
| Larger assemblies | p. 138 |
| A final issue | p. 142 |
| Conceptual grouping and constituency | p. 147 |
| Constituency and grammatical relations | p. 147 |
| Assemblies vs. building blocks | p. 151 |
| Conceptual groupings | p. 156 |
| Constituents as emergent entities | p. 159 |
| Groupings and symbolic linkages | p. 165 |
| Conclusion | p. 170 |
| Reference point constructions | p. 171 |
| Basic cognitive assumptions | p. 171 |
| Reference points | p. 173 |
| Possessives | p. 174 |
| Characterization | p. 175 |
| Possessive elements | p. 179 |
| Further uses | p. 184 |
| Additional reference point phenomena | p. 188 |
| Quasi-possessive constructions | p. 188 |
| Non-possessive constructions | p. 193 |
| Metonymy | p. 198 |
| Conclusion | p. 201 |
| Viewing in cognition and grammar | p. 203 |
| Viewing | p. 203 |
| Construal | p. 206 |
| Complement vs. modifier | p. 212 |
| English tense and aspect | p. 218 |
| Grounding predications | p. 218 |
| Tense and aspect | p. 222 |
| The progressive | p. 226 |
| Subordination | p. 229 |
| Anaphora | p. 234 |
| Pronouns and reference points | p. 234 |
| Pronoun-antecedent configurations | p. 239 |
| Conclusion | p. 245 |
| Generic constructions | p. 247 |
| Higher-order entities | p. 247 |
| Plural generics | p. 249 |
| Quantifier constructions | p. 254 |
| Grouping and pronominal anaphora | p. 261 |
| Interaction, grammar, and discourse | p. 261 |
| Negotiation and contextual understanding | p. 261 |
| Incrementing the current discourse space | p. 264 |
| Role of the composite conception | p. 267 |
| Spaces, planes, and groupings | p. 269 |
| Spaces and constituency | p. 269 |
| Type plane | p. 270 |
| Instance planes | p. 274 |
| Antecedence and grouping | p. 278 |
| Role of dominions | p. 278 |
| In the wrong space at the wrong time | p. 281 |
| Antecedents and reference points | p. 284 |
| Anaphora with grounding quantifiers | p. 284 |
| Quantifier scope | p. 289 |
| Type specifications and "sloppy identity" | p. 292 |
| Conclusion | p. 295 |
| Subjectification and grammaticization | p. 297 |
| Subjectification, attenuation, and transparency | p. 297 |
| The nature of subjectification | p. 297 |
| Dimensions and degrees of attenuation | p. 299 |
| Attenuation and transparency | p. 302 |
| Grammaticization | p. 306 |
| Uses of have | p. 306 |
| English modals | p. 307 |
| Spanish estar | p. 309 |
| Get-passives | p. 312 |
| Conclusion | p. 314 |
| Raising and transparency | p. 317 |
| Previous accounts | p. 317 |
| The classic raising analysis | p. 317 |
| Critique of the classic analysis | p. 321 |
| Logical grammatical relations | p. 325 |
| A fallacious argument | p. 326 |
| A case of polysemy | p. 327 |
| The active-zone analysis | p. 330 |
| Complex constructions | p. 332 |
| General properties of raising constructions | p. 337 |
| Grammatical relations | p. 337 |
| Semantic non-equivalence | p. 338 |
| Optionality of the complement clause | p. 340 |
| Transparency | p. 342 |
| Idioms and syntactic "dummies" | p. 344 |
| Specific properties of raising constructions | p. 347 |
| Subject-to-Object Raising | p. 348 |
| Subject-to-Subject Raising | p. 349 |
| Object-to-Subject Raising | p. 352 |
| Final matters | p. 357 |
| Dynamic conceptualization | p. 361 |
| Previous applications | p. 361 |
| Unification | p. 364 |
| Back to clause structure | p. 370 |
| Looking ahead | p. 376 |
| Notes | p. 377 |
| References | p. 401 |
| Index | p. 419 |
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