Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Maienborn, Claudia / Wöllstein, Angelika -- Section I: Events - states - causation -- The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME / Bierwisch, Manfred -- Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects / Engelberg, Stefan -- Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations / Mittwoch, Anita -- Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish / Gonzàlez-Vilbazo, Kay-Eduardo / Remberger, Eva-Maria -- Sentence connection as quantificational structure / Lohnstein, Horst -- Section II: Event nominals -- Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation / Alexiadou, Artemis -- Referential arguments of nouns and verbs / Kaufmann, Ingrid -- Section III: Events in composition -- Building resultatives / Kratzer, Angelika -- Reconciling "possessor" datives and "beneficiary" datives - Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German / Hole, Daniel -- Event arguments and modal verbs / Abraham, Werner -- Section IV: Measuring events -- Types of degrees and types of event structures / Caudal, Patrick / Nicolas, David -- Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items / Eckardt, Regine -- Semantic properties of split topicalization in German / Nakanishi, Kimiko -- Author index -- Subject index |