1. Acknowledgments; 2. List of abbreviations; 3. Chapter 1. The importance of meaning for syntax; 4. Chapter 2. Theoretical foundations of the proposed approach; 5. Chapter 3. Why the meaning encoded in the grammatical system matters; 6. Chapter 4. Lexical and morphological coding means and their implications; 7. Chapter 5. Linear orders as coding means; 8. Chapter 6. A methodology for the discovery of meanings encoded in the grammatical system; 9. Chapter 7. The distinction between the meaning encoded in the grammatical system and inferences from utterances; 10. Chapter 8. Indirectly affected argument, benefactive, and malefactive; 11. Chapter 9. The clause and the meanings encoded in the grammatical system; 12. Chapter 10. Clausal predications in English; 13. Chapter 11. Clausal predications in Polish; 14. Chapter 12. Clausal predications in Wandala; 15. Chapter 13. Towards a non-aprioristic typology of functional categories; 16. Chapter 14. Conclusions, implications, and open questions; 17. References; 18. Subject index; 19. Language index; 20. Name index