Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 On Nouns -- 2 Premodification in the Noun Phrase -- 3 On Adjectives -- 4 On Definite and Indefinite Articles -- 5 Personal Pronouns -- 6 Prepositional Phrases -- 7 On Verbs: Tense -- 8 Phrasal Verbs -- 9 Auxiliary Verbs -- 10 Auxiliary Verb do -- 11 Modal Auxiliary Verbs -- 12 On Aspect -- 13 Adverbs -- 14 Adverbials -- 15 On Clauses -- 16 On Clauses: Coordinators and Subordinators -- 17 On Clauses: Relative Pronouns -- 18 -ing forms -- 19 On Anaphora -- 20 On Cataphora -- 21 End Focus and Endweight -- 22 Collocation and Colligation -- 23 Cohesion and Coherence -- 24 Deixis -- 25 Conversational Implicatures -- 26 Speech Acts -- Primary Sources -- References