Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition — Preface to the second edition — Introduction — Part one: Constituent structure — 1 Constituent structure — 1.1 Determining constituent structure — 1.2 Representing and talking about constituent structure — 1.3 Hierarchical structure — 2 Form classes — 2.1 Form classes — 2.2 Widening the data base — 3 Constituent structure grammar — 3.1 A simple grammar — 3.2 Generating and parsing sentences 3.3 Generative grammar — 4 Formal grammars — 5 Verbs and nouns — 5.1 Some verb classes in English — 5.2 Some noun classes in English — 5.3 Selection restrictions — 6 Adjectives and prepositions — 6.1 Adjectives and adjective phrases — 6.2 Prepositions and prepositional phrases — 7 Optional constituents — 7.1 Optional constituents — 7.2 Modifiers and heads — 7.3 Adverbs and adverbials — 8 Intermediate levels of structure — 8.1 Intermediate levels of structure — 8.2 The specifiers, modifiers and complements of the major categories — 9 Embedding, recursion and ambiguity — 9.1 Embedding and recursion — 9.2 Attachment and ambiguity — 10 Relations between sentences — 10.1 Introduction — 10.2 Active and passive — 10.3 Declarations and interrogatives — 10.4 Wh movement and relative clauses — 11 The sentence — Part two: Morphology — 12 Words and morphemes — 12.1 Identifying words — 12.2 'Inflectional' and 'derivational' morphology 12.3 Models of inflectional morphology — 12.4 Some terminology — 12.5 Lexical and grammatical morphemes — 12.6 The morpheme as an abstract unit — 13 Morphemes and morphs — 3.1 Morphs — 13.2 Morphs and allomorphs — 13.3 Realization — 14 The morphology of the English verb — 14.1 Singular and plural: a problem in analysis — 14.2 Subject-verb concord — 14.3 Tense and aspect in the English verb — 15 Lexical morphology — 16 Form classes and grammatical categories — 16.1 Form classes: nouns, adjectives and verbs — 16.2 Grammatical categories — Part three: Functional relations — 17 Heads and modifiers: the encoding of dependency relations — 17 .1 Heads and modifiers — 17 .2 Encoding: word order and marking — 17 .3 Linkage: agreement and government — 18 Processes and participants — 18.1 Introduction — 18.2 Actions and states — 18.3 Agent and patient: range, result and neutral — 18.4 Location and motion: locative place, goal, source and path — 18.5 Inchvative and causative-inchoative verbs — 18.6 [State] propositions: description and identification; neutral and attribute — 18.7 Conclusion — 19 Grammatical functions — 19.1 Subject — 19.2 Object — 19.3 Indirect object — 19 .4 Complement — 19.5 Adjuncts — 19.6 Conclusion — 20 Sentences in texts — 20.1 Theme, rheme and end focus — 20.2 Given and new — 20.3 Topics — 20.4 Conclusion — Further reading — References — Index.