这本《系统功能语法入门：加的夫模式》共由三部分组成：第一部分由六位学者撰写的介绍和评论“加的夫语法”(the Cardiff Grammar)的七篇文章组成；第二部分是罗宾·福塞特(Robin P．Fawcett)撰写的Invitation toSystemic Functional Linguistics一书的汉语译文；第三部分是三个附录：附录1是福塞特一书的原文；附录2和附录3是早在2002年发表的两篇关于加的夫语法方面的文章。

Introduction

Foreword

Synopsis

Part One Introducing theCardiff Grammar

 Chapter 1 From Systemic Functional Grammar toCardiff Grammar

 Chapter 2 TheCardiff Grammar: aComponent of Systemic Functional Linguistics

 Chapter 3 Notes on theCardiff Grammar

 Chapter 4 TheCardiff Grammar: a simplification of Halliday's Functional Grammar

 Chapter 5 TheCardiff Grammar: an extension of Halliday's Functional Grammar

 Chapter 6 TheConcept of "'place" in theCardiff Grammar

 Chapter 7 FromCardiff Grammar to Systemic Functional Linguistics

Part Two TheChinese Version of Fawcett's Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics Preface

 Chapter 1 Who this book is for and where itComes from

 Chapter 2 The place of syntax structure in an overall model of language

 Chapter 3 Introducing TRANSITIVITY and MOOD a simple example

 Chapter 4 ExploringCriteria for establishing reliable Guidelines

 Chapter 5 Introducing the Subject Test

 Chapter 6 Elements, words and units: keeping things simple

 Chapter 7 Conflating the Main Verb with the Operator (O/M) : the specialCase of 'being'

 Chapter 8 The Auxiliary Verb and the Subject Theme. an introduction

 Chapter 9 Improving the Subject Test : introducing forms of do

 Chapter 10 More on TRANSITIVITY: Participants as Subjects andComplements

 Chapter 11 A brief outline of some other aspects of Clause structure

 Chapter 12 The Guidelines forClause analysis

 Chapter 13 A final analysis task

 Chapter 14 Conclusions

 Appendix 1 A systemic functional micro-grammar forsome of the structures presented here

 Appendix 2 A summary of English syntax for the text analyst References

Part Three Appendices

 Appendix 1 Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics

 Appendix 2 Introducing theCardiff Grammar

 Appendix 3 Studies of theCardiff Grammar inChina

 Technical terms and theirChinese equivalents

 Names of non-Chinese Authors and theirChinese translations