Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Outline of Functional Grammar -- 3. Predicates, predicate-frames, and predications -- 4. On the function and structure of terms -- 5. Subject and Object Assignment -- 6. Pragmatic functions -- 7. Expression rules: case marking -- 8. The order of constituents -- 9. A language-independent preferred order of constituents -- 10. Epilogue -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages -- Index of names

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Outline of Functional Grammar -- 3. Predicates, predicate-frames, and predications -- 4. On the function and structure of terms -- 5. Subject and Object Assignment -- 6. Pragmatic functions -- 7. Expression rules: case marking -- 8. The order of constituents -- 9. A language-independent preferred order of constituents -- 10. Epilogue -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages -- Index of names