Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword to the 1979 edition xiii
4. Preface to the 1979 edition xv
5. Preface to the revised edition xix
6. Chapter 1. Fact, method and explanation 1
7. Chapter 2. Toward a discourse definition of syntax 25
8. Chapter 3. Negation in language 93
9. Chapter 4. The grammar of case 119
10. Chapter 5. From discourse to syntax 151
11. Chapter 6. Where does crazy syntax come from? 175
12. Chapter 7. The SOV mystery and language evolution 201
13. Chapter 8. Language and ontology 225
14. Bibliography 269
15. General index 291
16. Languages index 299