While a subsidy is often desperately necessary, do not assume that delivery of a hefty grant will guarantee acceptance of your manuscript. Conversely, your inability to raise a subsidy does not mean that rejection of your manuscript will be automatic. Your contract will also spell out exactly what your obligations are. To check proofs of the book after typesetting. As discussed earlier, copyright shall also be registered by the publisher.
Publishers are, of course, loath to commit themselves to a definite time limit.
If so, you are a rare author. While marketing your book is the publisher's responsibility, there are things you can do to help. Moreover, some things you will be expected to do, even though these are not stated in your contract. Suggest appropriate courses that might use your book. Draft a description of your book to be used a catalogue copy, as part of the book's blurb, as text for a flyer, etc.