Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Why cognitive linguists should care about the -- Slavic languages and vice versa -- Part one. The nominal system: the meaning of -- case -- Nominative and instrumental variation of adjectival -- predicates with the Russian copula byt': reference time, limitation, and -- focalization -- Why double marking in the Macedonian dativus -- sympatheticus? -- Part two. The verbal system: the meaning of tense, -- aspect and mood -- What makes Russian bi-aspectual verbs -- special? -- Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present -- tense -- Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish -- aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of -- grammar? -- Conjunctions, verb forms, and epistemic stance in -- Polish and Serbian predictive conditionals -- Part three. The sentential system: non-archetypal -- event conceptions -- Degrees of event integration. A binding scale for -- [VFIN VINF] structures in Russian -- The 'impersonal' impersonal construction in Polish. -- A Cognitive Grammar analysis -- Part four. Changing language: category -- shifting -- A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: -- the case of Old Czech věřící -- A prototype account of the development of -- delimitative po- in Russian -- The rise of an epistemic pragmatic marker in Balkan -- Slavic: an exploratory study of nešto -- Part five. Motivating language: iconicity in -- language -- Iconicity and linear ordering of constituents -- within Polish NPs -- Discourse-aspectual markers in Czech sound symbolic -- expressions: Towards a systematic analysis of sound symbolism -- Backmatter