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