Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Greeks and Romans and the first grammatical theory -- 3. The Middle Ages -- 4. Grammar in the Renaissance and the first grammars of English -- 5. Modern linguistics and structuralism -- 6. Chomsky and constituency grammars -- 7. Introduction -- 8. Sentence structure of Present-Day English -- 9. Dependency relations and linguistic universals -- 10. Syntactic variation -- 11. Comparative syntax from a synchronic perspective -- 12. Movement and its application to the syntax of English -- 13. Introduction -- 14. Sentence structure of Early English -- 15. Dependency relations in Early English -- 16. Syntactic variation in Early English -- 17. Comparative syntax from a diachronic perspective -- 18. Syntactic movement in the history of English -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index