Part I -- Chapter 1: Preliminaries -- 1.1. Goals and framework -- 1.2. Organization -- 1.3. Data -- 1.4. Varieties of English -- 1.5. Standard English -- 1.6. Grammatical variation -- 1.7. Variation according to medium -- 1.8. English for Special Purposes -- Chapter 2: An introduction to syntax -- 2.1. The word -- 2.2. The sentence -- 2.3. Grammatical structure -- 2.4. Linearity and the principle of proximity -- 2.5. Constituency -- 2.6. Linguistic creativity and ambiguity -- 2.7. Competence and performance -- 2.8. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations -- 2.9. Recapitulation -- Chapter 3: Elementary sentence analysis -- 3.1. The basic form and function approach -- 3.2. Sentence functions and sentence structures -- 3.3. The internal structure of complex forms -- Chapter 4: Advanced sentence analysis -- 4.1. Stacking -- 4.2. Missing constituents, ellipsis and pro-forms -- 4.3. Complex predicators -- 4.4. The top of the tree -- 4.5. Vocatives, interjections and dislocation -- 4.6. A final word on advanced sentence analysis -- Part II -- Chapter 5: Constituent order -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Functions of constituent order -- 5.3. Inversion -- 5.4. Constituent order in subordinate clauses -- 5.5. Position and order of adverbials -- 5.6. Discontinuity -- Chapter 6: Coordination and subordination -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Coordination -- 6.3. Subordination -- 6.4. Markers of clausal subordination -- Chapter 7: The simple sentence -- 7.1. Introduction: simple and complex sentences -- 7.2. Referential properties: situations -- 7.3. Participant roles -- 7.4. Voice -- 7.5. Polarity -- 7.6. Subject-predicator concord -- 7.7. Other types of external concord -- Chapter 8: The complex sentence -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Classification of subclauses -- 8.3. Subject clauses -- 8.4. Cleft sentences -- 8.5. Object clauses -- 8.6. Subject complement clauses.

8.7. Indirect object clauses and object complement clauses -- 8.8. Adverbial clauses -- 8.9. Conditional clauses -- 8.10. Clausally realized disjuncts -- 8.11. Polarity in complex sentences -- Part III -- Chapter 9: Verbals -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Verb forms -- 9.3. The external relations of verbals -- 9.4. The internal structure of verb groups -- 9.5. Auxiliaries and their delimitation -- 9.6. Tense and aspect -- 9.7. Modal uses of tense-aspect forms -- 9.8. Mood -- 9.9. Modality -- Chapter 10: Nominals -- 10.1. Preliminaries -- 10.2. Categorization -- 10.3. Determination -- 10.4. Quantification: the number category -- Chapter 11: Pronominals -- 11.1. Preliminaries -- 11.2. Central pronouns -- 11.3. Pronouns without a person distinction -- Chapter 12: Adjectivals and adverbals -- 12.1. Preliminary discussion of adjectivals -- 12.2. Adjectival modification and positional ordering -- 12.3. Comparison of adjectives -- 12.4. The substantival use of adjectives -- 12.5. Adverbals -- References -- Subject index -- Word index.