Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1. Introduction: meaning and form -- Chapter 2. Dimensions of construal -- Chapter 3. Causation/perception constructions -- Chapter 4. Perspective: modal constructions -- Chapter 5. Conceptualizing subject constructions Finite and infinitival complements -- Chapter 6. Grounding -- Chapter 7. Impersonal constructions -- Chapter 8. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- REFERENCES -- Index -- Backmatter