List of contributors vi Notational conventions x Tree diagrams xiii Preface XV // 1 Preliminaries // Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston // 2 Syntactic overview 43 // Rodney Huddleston // 3 The verb 71 // Rodney Huddleston // 4 The clause: complements 213 // Rodney Huddleston // 5 Nouns and noun phrases 323 // John Payne and Rodney Huddleston // 6 Adjectives and adverbs 525 // Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston // 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases 597 // Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston // 8 The clause: adjuncts 663 // Anita Mittwoch, Rodney Huddleston, and Peter Collins // 9 Negation 785 // Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston // 10 Clause type and illocutionary force 851 // Rodney Huddleston // 11 Content clauses and reported speech 947 // Rodney Huddleston // 12 Relative constructions and unbounded dependencies 1031 // Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, and Peter Peterson // 13 Comparative constructions 1097 // Rodney Huddleston // 14 Non-finite and verbless clauses 1171 // Rodney Huddleston // 15 Coordination and supplementation 1273 // Rodney Huddleston, John Payne, and Peter Peterson // 16 Information packaging 1363 // Gregory Ward, Betty Birner, and Rodney Huddleston // 17 Deixis and anaphora 1449 // Lesley Stirling and Rodney Huddleston // 18 Inflectional morphology and related matters 1565 // Frank Palmer, Rodney Huddleston, and Geoffrey K. Pullum // 19 Lexical word-formation 1621 Laurie Bauer and Rodney Huddleston // 20 Punctuation 1723 // Geoffrey Nunberg, Ted Briscoe, and Rodney Huddleston // Further reading 1765 Index 1779 Lexical index 1780 Conceptual index 1813