FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR: A FIELD APPROACH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Chapter I. Functional grammar: subject matter and goals -- General view -- Types of functional-grammatical description -- The concept of function -- The interpretational component of language content -- Semantic categories of grammar -- Intercategorial relations of functions -- Interaction of system and environment -- THE CATEGORY OF ASPECT AND ITS ENVIRONMENT IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE -- General survey -- The types of limit -- Internal and external limit -- Real and potential limit -- Explicit and implicit limit -- Absolute and relative limit -- Limitativity as a functional-semantic field -- The varieties of limitative relations -- Limitedness/unlimitedness of the action. The meanings of aspect. -- Orientation towards limit (result)/Attainment of limit -- Terminativity/Aterminativity -- Limitative situations -- Chapter II. Structural types of functional-semantic fields -- The diversity of types of functional-semantic fields -- Taxis in the Russian language -- General survey -- Restrictions specifying the sphere of taxis relations -- Taxis and relative tense -- The structure of the taxis field in the Russian language -- The meanings of dependent and independent taxis -- The opposition of dependent and independent taxis -- Is taxis a grammatical category? -- The correlation of primary and secondary predication in dependent taxis constructions -- Peripheral components of dependent taxis -- The hierarchy of the expressive means of independent taxis -- Taxis situations and their relations with aspectuality -- Chapter III. Categorial situations -- Introductory remarks -- Dominant categorial situations -- On the universal and concrete-language aspects of the concept of categorial situation -- Attitude to existing theories.

Concluding remarks on categorial situations -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Name index.