Jan Terje Faarlund is Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Oslo, having previously held positions at the Universities of Trondheim and Chicago. His main fields of research are the North Germanic languages, syntactic theory, diachronic syntax, and Mesoamerican languages. He is the author of A Grammar of Chiapas Zoque (OUP, 2012) and The Syntax of Old Norse (OUP, 2004), and is the recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters.

This book is immediately relevant and interesting to a wide audience, and it will certainly be useful to many in the future who will continue to come back to it for further exploration.

• 1: Introduction 2: Nominals 3: The adjective phrase 4: The prepositional phrase 5: The verb phrase 6: The finite clause 7: The independent sentence 8: Subordinate clauses 9: Anaphor binding 10: Coordination and ellipsis

Jan Terje Faarlund is Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Oslo, having previously held positions at the Universities of Trondheim and Chicago. His main fields of research are the North Germanic languages, syntactic theory, diachronic syntax, and Mesoamerican languages. He is the author of A Grammar of Chiapas Zoque (OUP, 2012) and The Syntax of Old Norse (OUP, 2004), and is the recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters.

This book is immediately relevant and interesting to a wide audience, and it will certainly be useful to many in the future who will continue to come back to it for further exploration.

• 1: Introduction 2: Nominals 3: The adjective phrase 4: The prepositional phrase 5: The verb phrase 6: The finite clause 7: The independent sentence 8: Subordinate clauses 9: Anaphor binding 10: Coordination and ellipsis