序(Preface)
胡壯麟（HU Zhuanglin )
Preface 　Functional Syntax: an overview
Susumu Kuno
Preface　Structural and Formal Linguistics in Prague
Petr Sgall
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
　1.1. Views of language
　1.2. Syntactic semantics
　1.3. Centrality of syntax
　1.4. Purpose and scope
2. A survey of some relevant studies
　2.1. Vilemm Mathesius
　　2.1.1. Subject
　　2.1.2. Predication
　　2.1.3. Object
　　2.1.4. Subject - predicate relations
　　2.1.5. Object - predicate relations　　
　　2.1.6. Functional sentence perspective (FSP)
　2.2. Frantisek Danes
　　2.2.1. A three-level approach to syntax
　　2.2.2. Sentence patterns and predicate classes
　2.3. Charles Fillmore
2.3.1. Case relationships
2.3.2. Perspectives
　2.4. Wallace Chafe
2.4.1. Semantic types of verb
2.4.2. Noun - verb relations
　2.5. Michael Halliday
2.5.1. Processes
2.5.2. Participants
2.5.3. Circumstances
　2.6. Summary
3. A relational - perspective approach: relations
　3.1. Relations in the world and in language
　3.2. Verbs of action
　　3.2.1. Action and state
　　3.2.2. Action and result
　　3.2.3. Action and time
　3.3. Verbs of state
　　 3.3.1. State and result
　3.4. Nouns in relation to verbs
　　3.4.1. Agent
　　3.4.2. Patient
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4.A relational-perspective approach:perspectives
5.Internal dative:a relational*perspective approach
6.Concluding remarks
Bibliogeaphy
Index