Table of Contents

1. Editor's Preface; 2. Foreword; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. Introduction; 5. 1. Three raisons d'etre of this Book; 6. 2. Five Main Characteristics of the Syntactic Approach in this Book; 7. 3. Organization of this Book; 8. Chapter I. A Brief Outline of the Meaning-Text Theory and the Corresponding Linguistic Model; 9. 1. General Remarks; 10. 2. Levels of Utterance Representation in the Meaning-Text Model; 11. 3. General Design of the Meaning-Text Model; 12. 4. Five Basic Principles of the Meaning-Text Approach; 13. Chapter II. Surface-Syntactic Representation for English Sentences; 14. 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Representation; 15. 2. Surface-Syntactic Structure; 16. 3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Surface-Syntactic Structures; 17. 4. Surface-Syntactic Relations in Modern English; 18. Specimens of Surface-Syntactic Structures for English Sentences; 19. Chapter III. Deep-Morphological Representation for English Sentences; 20. 1. General Characterization of the Deep-Morphological Representation (of a Sentence); 21. 2. Deep-Morphological Structure; 22. 3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Deep-Morphological Structures; 23. 4. Morphological Variables and Values of Wordforms in Modern English; 24. Chapter IV. Surface-Syntactic Component of English; 25. 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Component; 26. 2. The Notion of Syntagm; 27. 3. Syntagms of Modern English; 28. Appendix I. Parts of Speech and Syntactic Features of English Lexemes; 29. Appendix II. Standard Subtrees; 30. A. Internal Structure of Standard Subtrees; 31. B. External Connections of Standard Subtrees; 32. C. Distribution (among the Individual Nodes of the Subtree) of Labels that are Attached to the Subtree Symbol as a Whole; 33. Appendix III. List of English Lexemes Mentioned in Syntagms ('Syntactic' Lexemes); 34. Appendix IV. Samples of English Syntactic Phenomena Unaccounted for in the Proposed Description; 35. References; 36. Subject and Term Index