Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. The Structure of Discourse -- Sentence and Clause in Old Avestan -- Verbal and Nominal Predication -- Interrogative sentences -- Negation -- II. Morphosyntax -- Concord -- Apposition -- Nouns and Adjectives -- Abstracta -- Verbal Nouns (nomina agentis, actionis) -- Nominal Composition as Syntax -- Degrees of Comparison -- Gender -- Number -- Singular -- Dual -- Plural -- The Cases -- Nominative -- Accusative -- Instrumental -- Dative -- Ablative -- Genitive -- Locative -- Vocative -- Pronouns -- Personal pronouns and adjectives -- Demonstrative pronouns -- Demonstrative adverbs of manner, time, and place -- Relative pronouns -- Relative adverbs/conjunctions -- Interrogative pronouns -- Interrogative adverbs -- Indefinite pronouns -- Verbs -- Person and Number -- Voice -- Aspect -- The present: aorist opposition -- The perfect -- Tense and Modality -- Present time -- Future time -- Past time -- Mythical time -- Potentiality -- Prayers, wishes, aspirations -- Requests, injunctions, prohibitions -- Infinitives -- Participles and Verbal Adjectives -- Verbal adjectives in -ta- -- Gerundives in -iia- -- Verbal Modifiers (Preverbs) -- Dependent Clauses -- Relative clauses -- Restrictive (defining) -- Appositive (non-defining) -- Features common to both restrictive and appositive clauses -- The relative pronoun as quasi-article -- Temporal clauses -- Causal clauses -- Comparative clauses -- Final and consecutive clauses -- Conditional clauses -- Object clauses -- Indirect statements and questions -- Recapitulation: Uses of the Moods -- Indicative and injunctive -- Subjunctive -- Optative -- Imperative -- Quotation of Direct Speech -- Particles -- Sentence particles -- Relational particles -- Focusing particles -- III. Word Order -- The Placing of Emphatic Elements -- Initial position -- Final position.

Distribution of emphasis by distraction -- The Placing of Unemphatic Elements -- Enclitics -- Unemphatic elements in initial position -- Commatization -- Order of Words within Cola -- The contextual force field -- Relative bulk -- Subject, verb, object -- Further remarks on verb placement -- Subject and predicate in nominal sentences -- Secondary (predicative) accusative -- Datives -- Attributive adjective -- Dependent genitive -- Other adnominals -- Vocatives -- Extension -- Interlacing -- IV. Stylistics -- Economy of Expression -- Pleonasm -- Understatement (Litotes) -- Rhetorical Questions -- Parenthesis -- Figures -- Conjunction of contrary terms -- Conjunction of related terms -- Anaphora -- Augmented triads -- Appendix The Old Avestan Texts -- A. The Verse Texts -- B. The Yasna Haptaŋhāiti -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- I. Avestan words -- II. Passages -- III. Topics.