Surface Syntax of English

• Editor's Preface | p. xiii
• Foreword | p. xv
• Acknowledgements | p. xvii
• Introduction
• §1. Three raisons d'être of this Book | p. 1
• §2. Five Main Characteristics of the Syntactic Approach in this Book | p. 4
• 3. Organization of this Book | p. 9
• Chapter I. A Brief Outline of the Meaning-Text Theory and the Corresponding Linguistic Model | p. 12
• §1. General Remarks
• §2. Levels of Utterance Representation in the Meaning-Text Model
• §3. General Design of the Meaning-Text Model
• §4. Five Basic Principles of the Meaning-Text Approach
• Chapter II. Surface-Syntactic Representation for English Sentences | p. 46
• §1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Representation
• §2. Surface-Syntactic Structure
• §3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Surface-Syntactic Structures
• §4. Surface-Syntactic Relations in Modern English
• Specimens of Surface-Syntactic Structures for English Sentences
• Chapter III. Deep-Morphological Representation for English Sentences | p. 163
• §1. General Characterization of the Deep-Morphological Representation (of a Sentence)
• §2. Deep-Morphological Structure
• §3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Deep-Morphological Structures
• §4. Morphological Variables and Values of Wordforms in Modern English
• Chapter IV. Surface-Syntactic Component of English | p. 178
• §1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Component
• §2. The Notion of Syntagm
• §3. Syntagms of Modern English
• Appendix I. Parts of Speech and Syntactic Features of English Lexemes | p. 471
• Appendix II. Standard Subtrees
• A. Internal Structure of Standard Subtrees | p. 485
• B. External Connections of Standard Subtrees | p. 490
• C. Distribution (among the Individual Nodes of the Subtree) of Labels that are Attached to the Subtree Symbol as a Whole | p. 491
• Appendix III. List of English Lexemes Mentioned in Syntagms (‘Syntactic’ Lexemes) | p. 493
• Appendix IV. Samples of English Syntactic Phenomena Unaccounted for in the Proposed Description | p. 501
• Subject and Term Index | p. 521

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