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Chapter 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: Syntactic overview
Chapter 3: The verb  
Chapter 4: The clause: complements  
Chapter 5: Nouns and noun phrases  
Chapter 6: Adjectives and adverbs  
Chapter 7: Prepositions and preposition phrases  
Chapter 8: The clause: adjuncts  
Chapter 9: Negation  
Chapter 10: Clause type and illocutionary force  
Chapter 11: Content clauses and reported speech  
Chapter 12: Relative constructions and unbounded dependencies  
Chapter 13: Comparative constructions  
Chapter 14: Non-finite and verbless clauses  
Chapter 15: Coordination and supplementation  
Chapter 16: Information packaging  
Chapter 17: Deixis and anaphora  
Chapter 18: Inflectional morphology and related matters  
Chapter 19: Lexical word-formation  
Chapter 20: Punctuation