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Preface | p. vii |
Additions to List of Abbreviations | p. xiv |
Introductory | p. 1 |
Grammatical system | |
Nexus as object | |
Simple Nexus as Ordinary Object | p. 9 |
Simple Nexus as Object of Result | p. 18 |
After verbs denoting the production of a result | |
After other verbs | |
Border cases | |
Various Remarks on Nexus-Objects | p. 29 |
Nexus-object after of | |
Case in a simple nexus as object | |
Word-order in nexus-objects | |
Split object | |
Incomplete nexus-object | |
Split subject | |
Simple nexus as subject or predicative | |
Simple Nexus as Regimen of a Preposition | p. 38 |
After with | |
After other prepositions | |
A Simple Nexus as Tertiary | p. 45 |
Analysis | |
Case | |
First participle | |
Second participle | |
Perfect participle | |
Being with the second participle | |
Having been | |
Adjective | |
Adverb or prepositional group | |
Condensed constructions | |
Meaning of nexus-tertiaries | |
Combinations with and | |
Incomplete nexus | |
Nexus-Substantives | p. 65 |
Form and function | |
Both S and O | |
One primary | |
Secondaries and tertiaries | |
Appendix | |
The Gerund. Substantive Nature | p. 86 |
Introductory | |
Substantial nature of the gerund | |
Object of the gerund | |
Subject of the gerund | |
Genitive (possessive) | |
Subject with of | |
Subject with by | |
Subject or object? | |
Compounds | |
The Gerund. Verbal Nature | p. 108 |
Tertiaries | |
Tense. Active or passive | |
Object after gerund without of | |
Subject not in the genitive (possessive) | |
Common case | |
Personal pronouns | |
There | |
Various remarks | |
Grammatical analysis | |
The Infinitive | p. 150 |
Introductory | |
Bare infinitive and to | |
The Infinitive. Subject and Predicative | p. 162 |
Infinitive as Object | p. 169 |
Lesser verbs with bare infinitive | |
Dare | |
Need | |
Had better | |
Rather than | |
Go where he will | |
To-Infinitive as Object | p. 192 |
Various verbs | |
Have to | |
Infinitive as object of substantives and adjectives | |
And | |
Infinitive Governed by Prepositions | p. 212 |
The Infinitive as Secondary | p. 217 |
The infinitive as adjunct | |
Retroactive infinitive | |
Is to with retroactive and non-retroactive infinitive | |
The Infinitive as Tertiary | p. 239 |
Infinitive of direction | |
Infinitive of purpose | |
Speaker's parenthesis | |
Transition to the infinitive of result | |
Infinitive of result | |
Providential purpose | |
Infinitives of Reaction and Specification | p. 259 |
Infinitive of reaction | |
Infinitive of specification | |
Retroactive and passive | |
Subject + Infinitive as Object of Main Verb | p. 277 |
Accusative with infinitive | |
Immediate perception | |
Mental perception | |
Affirmation, etc. | |
Emotion | |
Permission | |
Wish and request | |
Causarion | |
Word-order | |
Split infinitival object | |
Incomplete infinitival nexus-objects | |
Infinitive and that-clause | |
Subject + infinitive after verbal phrase | |
Extension of the prepositional construction | |
Subject + Infinitive in Other Employments | p. 306 |
As subject or predicative. Split subject with infinitive | |
With a passive verb | |
With an active verb | |
There | |
Subject + infinitive forming a tertiary | |
Final Remarks on Infinitives | p. 322 |
Passive | |
Isolated infinitive | |
Historical infinitive | |
Infinitive of deprecation | |
To separated from infinitive ("split infinitive") | |
Latent infinitive | |
Clauses as Tertiaries | p. 341 |
Introductory | |
Independence. Place | |
Time | |
Comparison | |
Contrast. Contradiction | |
Condition | |
Subclasses under conditional clauses. Comparison + condition | |
Cause, reason, motive | |
Implied Dependent Nexus | p. 399 |
Agent-nouns, substantives and adjectives | |
First participle | |
Second participle | |
Negation | p. 426 |
General history | |
What is negatived | |
Negative attraction | |
Double or cumulative negation | |
The meaning of negation | |
Requests | p. 467 |
Imperative. Person | |
Relation to infinitive | |
Pseudo-imperative | |
Questions | p. 480 |
Nexus-questions and x-questions | |
Pronouns. Question strengthened. Interrogative adverbs | |
Double questions | |
Incomplete questions. Exclamations. Pseudo-questions | |
Formal signs of questions | |
Do | |
General survey | |
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