Chapter 3 : NEGATION AND EMPHASIS 1. Negative Sentences 2. Tag Questions 3. Other Means of Negating Sentences 4. Double Negation 5. Negation Raising 6. Scope of Negation and Polarity Items 7.Emphasis
Chapter 4 : ‘SENTENCES’REVISITED 1. Finite and Non-finite Clauses 2. Small Clauses 3. Elliptical Constructions 4. Verbless Clauses, Amorphous‘Sentences’,and Isolates 5. Status of the Term Sentence
Chapter 5 : SENTENCE PATTERNS 1. Basic Sentence Patterns 2. Syntactic Behavior of the Four Elements 3. Reduction to More Basic Patterns 4. Obligatory and Optional Elements 5. Semantic Roles
PART 2 : PHRASE Chapter 6 : THE VERB PHRASE 1. Structure of Verb Phrase 2. Verb Phrase Patterns 3. Complements and Adjuncts
Chapter 7 : THE NOUN PHRASE 1. Structure of Noun Phrase 2. Classification of Nouns 3. Premodifiers 4. Division of the Premodifier 5. Complements and Adjuncts
Chapter 8 : THE ADJECTIVE PHRASE 1. Structure of Adjective Phrase 2. Premodifiers 3. Order of Adjectives 4. Complements and Adjuncts 5. Attributive and Predicative Usages
Chapter 9 : THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE 1. Structure of Prepositional Phrase 2. Prepositions and Particles 3. Premodifiers 4. Complements and Adjuncts
PART 3 : EMBEDDING Chapter 10 : EMBEDDING 1. Subordination and Coordination 2. Subordinate Clauses : Form and Function 3. Modality Types of Subordinate Clauses 4. Structure of Subordinate Clauses
Chapter 11 : EMBEDDING INTO SUBJECT AND COMPLEMENT POSITIONS 1. Embedding into Subject Positions 2. Embedding into Complement Positions
PART 4 : PARTS OF SPEECH Chapter 13 : PREPOSITIONS 1. Location 2. Motion 3. Time Chapter 14 : ADVERBS 1. Adverb Classes and their Structural Positions 2. Adverbs, Negation, and Scope
Chapter 20 : COMPLEX CLAUSES 1. John seems to be a secret agent. 2. I believe John to be competent. 3. John is easy to please. 4. It is linguistics that John is interested in. 5. What John is interested in is linguistics. 6. Free Indirect Speech and Free Direct Speech
Chapter 21 : RIGHTWARD MOVEMENT 1. Heavy NP Shift 2. Extraposition from Noun Phrase