| List of Contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Thematic conditions on syntactic structures: evidence from locative applicatives | p. 23 |
| Background: benefactive and instrumental applicatives | p. 25 |
| The problem of locative applicatives | p. 29 |
| Chichewa | p. 29 |
| Kinyarwanda and Sesotho | p. 30 |
| The role of the applied affix | p. 32 |
| Contrast 1: Chichewa vs. Sesotho | p. 33 |
| Contrast 2: Kinyarwanda vs. Chichewa/Sesotho | p. 38 |
| Chichewa benefactive applicatives revisited | p. 40 |
| Implications | p. 43 |
| Morphology, semantics and argument structure | p. 47 |
| Introduction | p. 47 |
| Lexical-conceptual structure | p. 48 |
| Morphological operations on LCS | p. 51 |
| Verbal prefixation and LCS | p. 54 |
| Middle verbs | p. 58 |
| Deverbal compounds and the external argument | p. 65 |
| English deverbal compounds | p. 65 |
| Italian deverbal compounds | p. 67 |
| Italian and English | p. 71 |
| English deverbal compounds revisited | p. 73 |
| Sentence accents and argument structure | p. 79 |
| Bresnan's account: the Nuclear Stress Rule | p. 80 |
| The generalization | p. 83 |
| Difficulty of perceiving nonfinal accents | p. 87 |
| Two PP's in one argument | p. 88 |
| Exploiting the generalization | p. 88 |
| Multiword predicates | p. 88 |
| Natural predicates | p. 89 |
| Newman's pair | p. 89 |
| Composition | p. 92 |
| Embedded clauses | p. 95 |
| "Raising" vs. "Equi-NP" constructions | p. 95 |
| PP as predicate | p. 98 |
| The syntactic character of thematic structure | p. 107 |
| The double object construction | p. 108 |
| Conflation as incorporation | p. 111 |
| Other patterns of conflation | p. 115 |
| Lexical representations | p. 118 |
| D-structure representations | p. 122 |
| Problems of method and the determination of Lexical Relational Structures | p. 124 |
| Conflations and the English middle construction | p. 126 |
| Conflation from the inner subject position | p. 132 |
| The relational structures of location and locatum verbs | p. 135 |
| Functional categories in the lexicon | p. 136 |
| Aspect and Theta Theory | p. 145 |
| The problem | p. 145 |
| Resultatives | p. 146 |
| Small clauses | p. 146 |
| Resultatives | p. 150 |
| Conclusion | p. 153 |
| Licensing | p. 153 |
| The theory of modification | p. 154 |
| Aspect and Aktionsart | p. 156 |
| Licensing Resultatives | p. 161 |
| Accomplishments | p. 162 |
| Morphologically complex accomplishments | p. 165 |
| Morphologically simplex verbs | p. 169 |
| Raising in syntax, semantics and cognition | p. 175 |
| Introduction and overview | p. 175 |
| Raising patterns in syntax | p. 177 |
| Raising patterns in semantics | p. 182 |
| The function of raising | p. 189 |
| Raising patterns in cognition | p. 192 |
| Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages | p. 199 |
| Part-whole constructions in Warlpiri | p. 200 |
| Stative predicates in Warlpiri | p. 204 |
| Secondary predicates in Arrernte-type languages | p. 207 |
| Lexical structure of verbs | p. 214 |
| "Perception" predicates | p. 221 |
| The lexical semantics of verbs of motion: the perspective from unaccusativity | p. 247 |
| Verbs of motion: a problem for the unaccusative hypothesis? | p. 251 |
| Three classes of verbs of motion | p. 252 |
| Correlations of meaning components with unaccusativity | p. 253 |
| Arrive verbs | p. 253 |
| Manner of motion verbs | p. 254 |
| Run verbs with directional phrases | p. 258 |
| Summary | p. 260 |
| Implications for lexical semantic representation | p. 260 |
| The projection principle(s): a reexamination | p. 271 |
| A review | p. 272 |
| The projection principle | p. 279 |
| The projection principle and the extended projection principle | p. 285 |
| Circumstantial complements and direct objects in the Romance languages: configuration, case, and thematic structure | p. 293 |
| A traditional view of the problem | p. 293 |
| Some tests for "Objecthood" | p. 295 |
| Commutation tests | p. 295 |
| Passive constructions | p. 297 |
| Causative constructions | p. 298 |
| Auxiliary selection | p. 299 |
| Extraction | p. 301 |
| Cliticization | p. 302 |
| A configurational account | p. 303 |
| Case and Theta-Role assignment | p. 306 |
| Some further data | p. 310 |
| Author index | p. 317 |
| Subject index | p. 321 |
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