Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INFINITIVE META- YERBS -- 3. -ING META-VERBS -- 4. -EN META-VERBS -- 5. COMPLEX FORMS -- 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING ENGLISH 'VERB-PHRASE' GRAMMAR -- 7. 'VERB- PHRASE' SEMANTICS -- 8. THE ORDER OF 'ORDERS' AND THEIR GLOSSES -- 9. THE ORDER OF GRAMMATICAL CLASSES -- 11. GRAMMAR-SEMANTIC EQUIVALENCES -- 12. SEMANTIC-GRAMMAR EQUIVALENCES -- 13. DERIVATIONAL RULES FOR '/-SUBJECT' SEMANTIC VERB-PHRASES AND ABSOLUTE PHRASES -- 14. SUGGESTED SEMANTIC TRANSFORMS -- 15. CONCLUSION -- TERMINOLOGICAL INDEX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY