1. Preliminaries
2. Syntactic overview
3. The Verb
4. The Clause : complements
5. Nouns and noun phrases
6. Adjectives and adverbs
7. Prepositions and preposition phrases
8. The Clause : adjuncts
9. Negation
10. Clause type and illocutionary force
11. Content clauses and reported speech
12. Relative constructions and unbounded dependencies
13. Comparative constructions
14. Non-finite and verbless clauses
15. Coordination and supplementation
16. Information packaging
17. Deixis and anaphora
18. Inflectional morphology and related matters
19. Lexical word-formation
20. Punctuation.