| List of figures | p. ix |
| List of tables | p. xiv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| List of abbreviations | p. xviii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Syntactic structure | p. 3 |
| General considerations | p. 3 |
| The layered structure of the clause | p. 3 |
| Operators | p. 8 |
| Formal representation of clause structure | p. 11 |
| Clause structure in dependent-marking and head-marking languages | p. 16 |
| Adjuncts and the periphery | p. 19 |
| Adpositional and noun phrase structure | p. 21 |
| Lexical representation and semantic roles | p. 31 |
| General considerations | p. 31 |
| Verb classes and logical structures | p. 31 |
| Operators | p. 50 |
| Nouns and noun phrases | p. 50 |
| Semantic roles | p. 53 |
| Information structure | p. 68 |
| General considerations | p. 68 |
| Topic and focus | p. 68 |
| Focus structure and focus types | p. 69 |
| Morphosyntactic marking of focus structure | p. 73 |
| Formal representation of focus structure | p. 77 |
| Focus structure and the notion of VP | p. 80 |
| Focus structure and the interpretation of quantifier scope | p. 81 |
| Syntactic relations and case marking | p. 89 |
| General considerations | p. 89 |
| Do all languages have grammatical relations? | p. 89 |
| Privileged syntactic arguments | p. 94 |
| Types of privileged syntactic arguments | p. 101 |
| Case marking and agreement | p. 107 |
| Other syntactic functions | p. 115 |
| Linking syntactic and semantic representations in simple sentences | p. 128 |
| General considerations | p. 128 |
| The linking algorithm | p. 129 |
| The role of the lexicon in grammar | p. 158 |
| Reflexivization | p. 161 |
| Focus structure and linking | p. 170 |
| The structure of complex sentences | p. 183 |
| General considerations | p. 183 |
| Nexus relations | p. 183 |
| The layered structure of the clause and juncture | p. 188 |
| Symmetrical vs asymmetrical linkage | p. 198 |
| Operators in complex sentences | p. 201 |
| Complementizer position | p. 205 |
| Interclausal semantic relations and the interclausal relations hierarchy | p. 205 |
| Focus structure in complex sentences | p. 213 |
| Complex NPs | p. 220 |
| Syntactic templates for complex sentences | p. 223 |
| Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences | p. 225 |
| General considerations | p. 225 |
| Linking in clausal junctures | p. 228 |
| Linking in nuclear junctures | p. 234 |
| Linking in core junctures | p. 239 |
| Linking in complex noun phrases | p. 260 |
| Reflexivization in complex sentences | p. 267 |
| Constraints on linking in WH-questions and related constructions | p. 272 |
| References | p. 294 |
| Languages index | p. 304 |
| Subject index | p. 306 |
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