List of contributors .......................................... vii
Introduction .................................................... 1
Nicole Delbecque, and Bert Cornillie
A usage-based approach to prototypical transitivity
Victoria Vazquez Rozas ...................................... 17
Transitivity and referentiality in Spanish and Rumanian
Eugeen Roegiest ............................................. 39
Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in Hebrew:
Cross-language comparison with English, German and Spanish
Rivka Halevy ................................................ 61
Unsubcategorized objects in English resultative
constructions
Cristiano Broccias ......................................... 103
Complex predicates in Basque
Cathryn Donohue ............................................ 125
An adversative passive in English: in search of origins
Junichi Toyota ............................................. 143
Verbs of letting: Some cognitive and historical aspects
Augusto Soares da Silva .................................... 171
Syntactic and semantic integration in the Spanish
causative-reflexive construction
Jose M. Garcia-Miguel ...................................... 201
Soft causatives in Spanish
Ricardo Maldonado .......................................... 229
Two causal alternatives: carry vs. push type constructions
in English
Natalya Schmidt ............................................ 261
Grammar of "manner of motion" verbs in English and Spanish:
between lexicon and syntax
Yuko Morimoto .............................................. 287
On the nature of lexicalization patterns: a cross-
linguistic inquiry
Luna Filipovic ............................................ 307
The semantics of space: A study of the prefix pro- in
Serbian
Dejan Stosic ............................................... 331
Subject index ................................................. 359
Author index .................................................. 365
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