Nearly three decades after the publication of the groundbreaking Foundations of Cognitive Grammar vol 1 1987 the framework devised by Ronald W Langacker for a cognitivelygrounded account of language has not lost momentum After a long period during which the major descriptive constructs were laid out for the linguistic community and applied in numerous analyses of language data Cognitive Grammar continues to probe deeper with an everincreasing acuity This volume a record of a series of lectures Langacker gave at UMCS Lublin Poland in May 2014 is concerned with nominal structure The author presents an impressively detailed account of how nominals link with cognitive processes allowing conceptualizers to construe aspects of their experience for purposes of linguistic symbolization The Editors Adam Glaz Hubert Kowalewski Przemyslaw Lozowski