Preface v // Pronunciation table vin // Abbreviations and symbols ix // 1 The English language 1 // 2 A survey of English grammar 35 // 3 Verbs and auxiliaries 93 // 4 The semantics of the verb phrase 173 // 5 Nouns and determiners 241 // 6 Pronouns and numerals 333 // 7 Adjectives and adverbs 399 // 8 The semantics and grammar of adverbials 475 // 9 Prepositions and prepositional phrases 655 // 10 The simple sentence 717 // 11 Sentence types and discourse functions eoi // 12 Pro-forms and ellipsis 855 // 13 Coordination 915 // 14 The complex sentence 985 // 15 Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate // clauses 1045 // 16 Complementation of verbs and adjectives 1147 // 17 The noun phrase 1235 // 18 Theme, focus, and information processing 1353 // 19 From sentence to text 1421 // Appendix I Word-formation 1515 // Appendix II Stress, rhythm, and intonation 1587 // Appendix III Punctuation 1609 // Bibliography 1641