| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Abbreviations | 12 |
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| I. The Structure of Discourse | 14 |
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| Sentence and Clause in Old Avestan | 15 |
| Verbal and Nominal Predication | 16 |
| Interrogative sentences | 17 |
| Negation | 18 |
| II. Morphosyntax | 22 |
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| Concord | 22 |
| Apposition | 23 |
| Nouns and Adjectives | 24 |
| Abstracta | 25 |
| Verbal Nouns (nomina agentis, actionis) | 26 |
| Nominal Composition as Syntax | 27 |
| Degrees of Comparison | 28 |
| Gender | 29 |
| Number | 30 |
| Singular | 30 |
| Dual | 30 |
| Plural | 31 |
| The Cases | 31 |
| Nominative | 32 |
| Accusative | 33 |
| Instrumental | 37 |
| Dative | 42 |
| Ablative | 46 |
| Genitive | 49 |
| Locative | 53 |
| Vocative | 56 |
| Pronouns | 57 |
| Personal pronouns and adjectives | 57 |
| Demonstrative pronouns | 59 |
| Demonstrative adverbs of manner, time, and place | 62 |
| Relative pronouns | 63 |
| Relative adverbs/conjunctions | 63 |
| Interrogative pronouns | 64 |
| Interrogative adverbs | 65 |
| Indefinite pronouns | 65 |
| Verbs | 66 |
| Person and Number | 66 |
| Voice | 67 |
| Aspect | 68 |
| The present: aorist opposition | 69 |
| The perfect | 71 |
| Tense and Modality | 72 |
| Present time | 72 |
| Future time | 74 |
| Past time | 76 |
| Mythical time | 77 |
| Potentiality | 78 |
| Prayers, wishes, aspirations | 79 |
| Requests, injunctions, prohibitions | 80 |
| Infinitives | 81 |
| Participles and Verbal Adjectives | 85 |
| Verbal adjectives in -ta- | 88 |
| Gerundives in -iia- | 88 |
| Verbal Modifiers (Preverbs) | 89 |
| Dependent Clauses | 90 |
| Relative clauses | 90 |
| Restrictive (defining) | 90 |
| Appositive (non-defining) | 92 |
| Features common to both restrictive and appositive clauses | 93 |
| The relative pronoun as quasi-article | 95 |
| Temporal clauses | 96 |
| Causal clauses | 98 |
| Comparative clauses | 99 |
| Final and consecutive clauses | 99 |
| Conditional clauses | 100 |
| Object clauses | 101 |
| Indirect statements and questions | 102 |
| Recapitulation: Uses of the Moods | 103 |
| Indicative and injunctive | 103 |
| Subjunctive | 104 |
| Optative | 104 |
| Imperative | 105 |
| Quotation of Direct Speech | 105 |
| Particles | 106 |
| Sentence particles | 107 |
| Relational particles | 110 |
| Focusing particles | 112 |
| III. Word Order | 118 |
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| The Placing of Emphatic Elements | 119 |
| Initial position | 119 |
| Final position | 121 |
| Distribution of emphasis by distraction | 121 |
| The Placing of Unemphatic Elements | 123 |
| Enclitics | 123 |
| Unemphatic elements in initial position | 124 |
| Commatization | 125 |
| Order of Words within Cola | 126 |
| The contextual force field | 126 |
| Relative bulk | 128 |
| Subject, verb, object | 129 |
| Further remarks on verb placement | 130 |
| Subject and predicate in nominal sentences | 133 |
| Secondary (predicative) accusative | 133 |
| Datives | 133 |
| Attributive adjective | 134 |
| Dependent genitive | 136 |
| Other adnominals | 136 |
| Vocatives | 137 |
| Extension | 139 |
| Interlacing | 141 |
| IV. Stylistics | 144 |
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| Economy of Expression | 145 |
| Pleonasm | 147 |
| Understatement (Litotes) | 147 |
| Rhetorical Questions | 148 |
| Parenthesis | 148 |
| Figures | 150 |
| Conjunction of contrary terms | 150 |
| Conjunction of related terms | 151 |
| Anaphora | 152 |
| Augmented triads | 155 |
| Appendix The Old Avestan Texts | 156 |
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| A. The Verse Texts | 156 |
| B. The Yasna Hapta.haiti | 185 |
| Bibliography | 190 |
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| Indexes | 192 |
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| I. Avestan words | 192 |
| II. Passages | 193 |
| III. Topics | 194 |
