Preface // 1 The English language // 2 A general framework // 3 Verbs and auxiliaries // 4 The semantics of the verb phrase // 5 Nouns and determiners // 6 Pronouns // 7 Adjectives and adverbs // 8 The semantics and grammar of adverbials // 9 Prepositions and prepositional phrases Í0 The simple sentence // 11 Sentence types and discourse functions // 12 Pro-forms and ellipsis // 13 Coordination // 14 The complex sentence // 15 Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses // 16 Complementation of verbs and adjectives // 17 The noun phrase // 18 Theme, focus, and information processing // 19 From sentence to text // Bibliography