Preface
Table of symbols and notational conventions
1. Basic concepts in grammar
1.1 Words and lexemes
1.2 Constituent structure
1.3 Syntactic classes and functions
1.4 Paradigmatic relations and kernel clauses
1.5 Sentence and clause
1.6 Morphological processes
1.7 Inflectional and lexical morphology
1.8 Components of a linguistic description
1.9 Descriptive grammar and prescriptive grammar
2. The structural approach to linguistic analysis
2.1 General principles
2.2 Exemplification: The grammatical subject
2.3 Particular grammars and general grammatical theory
2.4 Exemplification: English verb inflection
3. The parts of speech
3.1 The traditional classification
3.2 Nature of units classified
3.3 Associated phrase classes
3.4 Open and close classes
4. Verbs and verb phrases
4.1 Verbs
4.2 Structure of verb phrases
4.3 Systems of VP
4.4 Operators, auxiliaries and catenatives
4.5 Tense
4.6 Progressive aspect
4.7 Perfect aspect
4.8 Analytic mood
5. The structure of kernel clauses
5.1 Complements and adjuncts
5.2 Objects and predicative complements
5.3 The complex-transitive construction
5.4 The ditransitive construction
5.5 PP and AdvP complements
5.6 Subordinate clause complements
5.7 Adjuncts
5.8 Vocatives
6. Noun and noun phrases
6.1 Nouns
6.2 Subclasses of noun
6.3 Dependents in NP structure
6.4 Determiners
6.5 Number
6.6 Countability and boundedness
6.7 Definiteness, specificness and genericness
6.8 Pre-head modifiers
6.9 Complements
6.10 Post-head modifiers
6.11 Peripheral dependents
6.12 The relationship between pre- and post-head
6.13 The relationship between PossP and 'of' phrase dependents
7. Pronouns
7.1 Types and distintive properties of pronouns
7.2 Pronouns, anaphora and deixis
7.3 Pronouns and ellipsis
7.4 Personal, reflexive and possessive pronouns
7.5 Other subclasses of pronoun
8. Adjectives and adjective phrases
8.1 Adjectives
8.2 Some non-central subclasses of adjectives
8.3 Determinatives
8.4 Dependents in AdjP structure: complements
8.5 Dependents in AdjP structure: modifiers
9. Verbs, nouns and adjectives: the boundaries between them
9.1 Verbs vs nouns: gerunds
9.2 Verbs vs adjectives: participles
9.3 Nouns vs adjectives
10. Adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions
10.1 Adverbs and adverb phrases
10.2 Prepositions
10.3 The position of prepositions
10.4 Conjunctions and their relation to prepositions
10.5 On so-called 'complex prepositions'
10.6 Complementation and modification in PP structure
10.7 Prepositions in relation to verbs, adjectives and adverbs
11. Clause type
11.1 Clause type and illocutionary force
11.2 Declaratives
11.3 Imperatives and related constructions: jussives
11.4 Interrogatives
11.5 Exclamatives
11.6 Interrogative tags
11.7 Echoes
12. Coordination and subordination
12.1 Compound and complex sentences
12.2 Coordination
12.3 Classification of subordinate clauses
12.4 Relative constructions
12.5 Comparative constructions
13. Negation
13.1 Clausal and subclausal negation
13.2 Affirmatives and non-affirmatives
13.3 The semantic scope of negation
13.4 The intepretation of negation
14. Thematic system of the clause
14.1 Voice: active and passive
14.2 The indirect object transformation
14.3 Extaposition
14.4 Thematic reordering
14.5 Subject-complement switch in the identifying construction
14.6 The cleft and pseudo-cleft construction
14.7 The 'there' construction
References
Index
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