Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- For colleagues -- Foreword to the second edition -- Introduction -- 1 Heads and modifiers -- 2 Constituent structure -- 3 Constructions -- 4 Word classes -- 5 The lexicon -- 6 Clauses I -- 7 Clauses II -- 8 Clauses III -- 9 Grammatical functions -- 10 Syntactic linkage -- 11 Heads and modifiers revisited -- 12 Roles -- 13 Clauses, sentences and text -- 14 Syntax in discourse: aspect, tense, voice -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Discussion of the exercises -- Further reading -- Index