Introduction
The introduction presents a brief (two and a quarter pages) overview of the contents of the book emphasizing two things: linguistic methodology, especially the procedures involved in reconstructing the grammar of an ancient language, and constituent structure (the basic grammatical units and how they are combined into larger units of speech or text). The introduction also provides a chapter-by-chapter description of the book's main argument--that word-level categories and phrase-level categories are insufficient for describing even some of the most basic components of Greek syntax.