The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

1. Preliminaries Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston 2. Syntactic overview Rodney Huddleston 3. The verb Rodney Huddleston 4. The clause, I: mainly complements Rodney Huddleston 5. Nouns and noun phrases John Payne and Rodney Huddleston 6. Adjectives and adverbs Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston 7. Prepositions and preposition phrases Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston 8. The clause, II: mainly adjuncts Anita Mittwoch, Rodney Huddleston and Peter Collins 9. Negation Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston 10. Clause type and illocutionary force Rodney Huddleston 11. Content clauses and reported speech Rodney Huddleston 12. Relative clauses and unbounded dependencies Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum and Peter G. Peterson 13. Comparative constructions Rodney Huddleston 14. Non-finite and verbless clauses Rodney Huddleston 15. Coordination and supplementation Rodney Huddleston, John Payne and Peter G. Peterson 16. Information packaging Gregory Ward, Betty Birner and Rodney Huddleston 17. Deixis and anaphora Lesley Stirling and Rodney Huddleston 18. Inflectional morphology and related matters F. R. Palmer, Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum 19. Lexical word-formation Laurie Bauer and Rodney Huddleston 20. Punctuation Geoffrey Nunberg, Ted Briscoe and Rodney Huddleston Further reading Index.