Preface;
List of Symbols
1. Levels of linguistic structure
2. Grammar and grammatical rules
3. Clauses: meanings and structures
4. Structural recursion
5. Mood
6. Mood tags
7. Imperatives
8. Modality
9. Adjuncts and prepositional groups
10. Complementation
11. Phase
12. Theme
13. Voice
14. The verbal group 1
15. The verbal group 2
16. Tense and aspect
17. Clause complexes 1
18. Clause complexes 2
19. Bound clauses 1
20. Bound clauses 2
21. Reporting clauses
22. Reported mood and reported speech
23. Rankshift
Appendix A: English intonation
Appendix B: Passages of spoken text
Notes and suggestions for further reading
References
Key to exercises
Index
Biography
David Young
