Part I
1. Grammatical description: getting started
1.1. Grammar: syntax, morphology and semantics
1.2. The form and function distinction
1.3. Sentence functions introduced
1.4. Four form types
1.5. Word classes
1.6. Discontinuity
1.7. Basic sentence structures
1.8. More sentence functions and structures
1.9. Summary of sentence functions and structures
2. Sentence functions
2.1. The predicator
2.2. The subject
2.3. The direct object
2.4. The indirect object
2.5. The subject complement
2.6. The object complement
2.7. Adverbials
2.8. Predicates and predications
3. Complex forms
3.1. Groups
3.2. Types of subordination in groups
3.3. The preposition group
3.4. The compound unit
3.5. Types of coordination
3.6. Coordinating conjunctions
3.7. Clauses
3.8. The functions of subclauses
3.9. Markers of clausal subordination
3.10. Embedding and recursiveness
4. Clause types and utterance functions
4.1. Major types of clause
4.2. Communicative functions
4.3. The forms of communicative functions
5. Missing constituents, ellipsis and pro-forms
5.1. The zero convention
5.2. Types of ellipsis
5.3. Pro-forms
6. Vocatives, interjections and dislocation
Part II
7. Constituent Order
7.1. Functions of constituent order
7.2. Inversion
7.3. Constituent order in subclauses
7.4. Position and order of adverbials
8. Situations and participants
8.1. Actionality: dynamic versus stative situations
8.2. Subtypes of dynamic situations
8.3. Subtypes of stative situations
8.4. General participant roles
8.5. Specific participant roles
8.6. A few points in connection with participant roles
9. Voice: active versus passive
9.1. Functions of the passive
9.2. Voice restrictions
9.3. Nonfinite passives
9.4. GET-passives
9.5. Notional ‘passives’
9.6. Passives versus adjectival non-passives
10. Polarity
10.1. Standard negation and rules of contraction
10.2. Domain of negation: global versus local
10.3. Syntactic field of negation: clausal versus limited
10.4. Semantic scope of negation: complete versus incomplete
10.5. Overview
10.6. Polarity in non-declarative sentences
11. Subject-predicator concord
11.1. The basic rule
11.2. Singular or plural subject realization?
11.3. Notional concord
11.4. Attraction
12. The complex sentence
12.1. Definition and classifications
12.2. Additional points
12.3. Clausal complementation
12.4. Discontinuous subject clauses
12.5. The subject function in subclauses
12.6. Conditional clauses
12.7. Clausally realized disjuncts
12.8. Transferred negation
12.9. Cleft sentences
Part III
13. Verbals
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Complex predicators
13.3. Tense and aspect
13.4. Mood
13.5. Modality
14. Nominals
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Categorization
14.3. Determination
14.4. Quantification: the number category
15. Pronominals
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Central pronouns
15.3. Pronouns without a person distinction
16. Adjectivals and adverbals
16.1. Preliminary discussion of adjectivals
16.2. Adjectival modification and positional ordering
16.3. Comparison of adjectives
16.4. The substantival use of adjectives
16.5. Adverbals
Appendix: tips on pronunciation and spelling
A.1. Verbs
A.2. Nouns
A.3. Adjectives: comparison
A.4. Adverbs
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