Discourse and Function

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Subject and Topic

Chapter 2. Identity and Quantity

Chapter 3. Sentences Containing an Indefinable Element

Chapter 4. Grammar and Syntax

Chapter 5. Aspect, Tense, and Viewpoint

Chapter 6. Transitive Sentences and their Stative Resultants

Chapter 7. Intransitive Sentences and their Stative Resultants

Chapter 8. Transfer and Possession Sentences

Chapter 9. Receptive and Adoptive Sentences

Chapter 10. The Benefactive and Adversative Functions

Chapter 11. Sentences with a Dynamic Resultant Sentence

Chapter 12. Functional Nouns

Chapter 13. The Discourse Analysis of Sentence Structure

Chapter 14. The Syntax of Sentence Discourse

Chapter 15. The Functional Analysis of Sentence Structure

Chapter 16. The Components of a Sentence

Chapter 17. Adverbials

Chapter 18. The Components of a Question and a Negative Sentence

Chapter 19. Illustrations

Notation and Transliteration

Glossary

References