Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1. Some Theoretical Concerns -- 2. Some Support for Transfer Features and Semantic Governance of Syntactic Forms -- 3. Studies on English Complement Structures -- 4. The Verbal Complements in English -- 5. Studies on the English Modal Auxiliaries -- 6. Further Studies on the English Modal Auxiliaries -- 7. A Semantic Feature Analysis of the English Modal Auxiliaries -- References -- Index of Names