A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language / Randolph Quirk.

Preface ;
Pronunciation table;
Abbreviations and Symbol;
1 The English language;
2 A survey of English Grammar;
3 Verb and auxiliaries;
4 The Semantics of the verb phrase;
5 Noun and Determiners;
6 Pronoun and Numerals;
7 Adjective and adverb;
8 The semantics and grammar of adverbials;
9 Preposition and prepositional phrase;
10 The simple sentence;
11 Sentence type and discourse function;
12 Pro form of ellipsis;
13 Coordination;
14 The Complex Sentence;
15 Syntactic and semantic function of subordinate clauses;
16 Complementation of verb and adjective;
17 The Noun Phrase;
18 Them focus and information processing;
19 From sentence to text ;
appendix 1 word formation
appendix 2 Stress rhythm and intonation;
appendix 3 Punctuation;
Bibliography;
Index;