Each chapter opens with an Introduction and closes with a Summary, Discovery Problems, Text Analysis, Language Diversity Exercises, Chapter Review Terms, and Chapter Review Exercises

Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I: THE GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM
1. Grammar and Our Knowledge of Language
- The Components of Grammar
- Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar
- Standard English
- The Approach to Grammar in This Book

2. Some Syntactic Fundamentals: Categories and Phrases
- Syntactic Categories
- Grammatical and Lexical Categories
- Phrase Structure

3. Evidence for Phrases: Movement, Pronominalization, and Coordination
- Movement
- Pronominalization
- Coordination

PART II: CATEGORIES
4. Nouns
- Semantic Classes of Nouns
- The Morphology of Nouns
- The Syntax of the Noun Phrase
- Categories that Introduce Nouns: Determiners, Numerals and Quantifiers

5. The Forms and Meanings of Verbs
- The Semantics of Verbs
- The Morphology of Verbs
- Semantic Tense and Aspect
- Future Tense and Modals
- Infinitives
- Grammatical Verbs: Auxiliaries and Modals

6. The Syntax of the Verb Phrase
- A Phrase Structure Rule for Verb Phrase
- Negation and Do-Insertion
- Not Contraction
- Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and Tag
- The Grammatical Category Auxiliary

7. Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
- The Semantics of Adjectives
- The Morphology of Adjectives
- Categories That Introduce Adjectives: Degree Words
- The Syntax of the Adjective Phrase
- Adjective PhrasePositions

8. Adverbs and Adverb Phrases
- Semantic Classes of Adverbs
- The Morphology of Adverbs
- Categories That Introduce Adverbs: Degree Words
- Adverb Phrase Positions

9. Prepositions
- The Semantics of Prepositions
- The Morphology of Prepositions
- Categories That Introduce Prepositions
- Prepositions: A Grammatical or Lexical Category?
- The Phrase Structure of Prespositional Phrases
- Intransitive Prepositions: Particles
- More Prepositional Phrases

PART III: GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS
10. The Sentence: Clause Structure, Subordination, and Coordination
- The Structure of the Clause: NP and VP
- Independent and Subordinate Clauses
- Types of Subordinate Clauses

11. Complements
- Subcategorization
- Complements of Verbs
- Complements of Other Lexical Categories

12. Adjuncts in the Verb Phrase
- Prepositional Phrase Adjuncts
- Adverb Phrase and Adverbial Noun Phrase Adjuncts
- Participial Phrase Adjuncts
- Adjective Phrase Adjuncts
- Clausal Adjuncts

13. Adjuncts in the Noun Phrase
- Appositive Noun Phrases
- Restrictive Relative Clauses
- Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
- Free Relative Clauses

Glossary
Appendix
Index