Preface; 1. A guide to the book; 2. Neuronal structure and function; 3. From classic aphasia research to modern neuroimaging; 4. Words in the brain; Excursus E1: explaining neuropsychological double dissociations; 5. Regulation, overlap and web tails; 6. Neural algorithms and neural networks; 7. Basic syntax; 8. Synfire chains as the basis of serial order in the brain; 9. Sequence detectors; 10. Neuronal grammar; 11. Neuronal grammar and algorithms; Excursus E2: basic bits of neuronal grammar; Excursus E3: a web response to a sentence; 12. Refining neuronal grammar; Excursus E4: multiple reverberation for resolving lexical ambiguity; Excursus E5: multiple reverberations and multiple center embeddings; 13. Neurophysiology of syntax; 14. Linguistics and the brain; References; Abbreviations; Author index; Subject index.