%0 Journal Article %T Figurative use of past tense in Russian: a case study %A Daria Chernova %J Poljarnyj Vestnik %D 2010 %I University of Troms? %X This article discusses past tense verbs in collocations with the future tense adverbial §Ù§Ñ§Ó§ä§â§Ñ ¡®tomorrow'. It is shown that the past tense grammeme can express habitual, hypothetical and conditional meanings that are related through metonymy. %K past tense %K figurative use %K metaphor %K metonymy %K cognitive linguistics %U http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/vestnik/article/view/1264