i-vi -- Preface -- Contents -- Introductory Remarks -- 1. Contrast, its linguistic manifestation and investigations -- Part One - Theory -- 2. Considerations on the theoretical basis -- Part Two - Survey of Research -- 3. The connection of contrast in grammars -- 4. Investigations of adversative relations -- 5. Investigations of concessive relations -- Part three - Functional types -- General remarks on the functional types of the connection of contrast -- 6. Adversative contrast expressed by the main adversative connectives -- 7. Other adversative connectives -- 8. Concessive contrast -- Part Four - Additional Observations -- 9. Special syntactic and/or semantic questions -- Final Remarks -- 10. Contrast and some of its aspects -- 11. Bibliography -- 12. Index -- 545-548