Cognitive Linguistics offers an enticing possibility to approach time-honored linguistic
problems from a new standpoint and view them in a new dimension. Proving this theory all
contributions in this volume are Slavic-oriented and thoroughly grounded in the framework of
Cognitive Linguistics. The volume is composed of three thematic sections - grammar semantics
and discourse analysis with applied linguistics - representing fields of interest and
simultaneously corresponding to levels of linguistic organization. The book offers studies on
completability as an important parameter in the description of the Russian aspect system
application of Langacker's theory of subjectification to the analysis of Russian perfective
interaction between aspect and modality in Slavic morphological case architecture in Slovak
Czech dative-marked nominals Russian instrumental of comparison affirmation
possessive-locative constructions in Macedonian lexical semantics spoken discourse
metaphorical expressions in legal language and lexicography.
