Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction: Syntax in Linguistics -- 1. Syntax − The State of a Controversial Art -- 2. Syntactic Constructions -- 3. Syntax and its Interfaces: An Overview -- II. The Syntactic Tradition -- 4. The Indian Grammatical Tradition -- 5. Arabic Syntactic Research -- 6. Prestructuralist and Structuralist Approaches to Syntax -- III. Syntactic Phenomena -- 7. Syntactic Categories and Subcategories -- 8. Grammatical Relations -- 9. Arguments and Adjuncts -- 10. The Morpho-Syntactic Realisation of Negation -- 11. The Syntactic Role of Agreement 1. Introduction: -- 12. Verb Second -- 13. Discourse Configurationality -- 14. Control -- 15. Pronominal Anaphora -- 16. Coordination -- 17. Word Order -- 18. Ellipsis -- 19. Syntactic Effects of Cliticization -- 20. Ergativity -- 21. Relative Clauses and Correlatives -- 22. Voice and Valence Change -- 23. Syntax and Grammar of Idioms and Collocations