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Introduction - unaccusativity introduced, approaches to unaccusativity,deep versus surface unaccusativity, assumptions about lexicalrepresentations; the anatomy of a diagnostic - the resultative construction -the distribution of resultative phrases, the syntax of the resultativeconstruction, semantic restrictions on the resultative construction,alternative accounts of the resultative construction; the causativealternation - a probe into lexical semantics and argument structure - acausative analysis of alternating unaccusative verbs, a closer look at thecausative alternation, verbs of existence and appearance; the linking ofarguments - the linking of rules, ordering the linking rules, comparison withother approaches; verbs with multiple meanings - rule-governed variablebehaviour, consequences for lexical representation, variable behaviour thatis not rule-governed; the problem of locative inversion - locative inversion- an introduction, the verbs found in locative inversion, the discoursefunction of locative inversion, evidence from various verb classes,unergative verbs in locative inversion, the syntax of locative inversion - isunaccusative analysis necessary?, an alternative account, the larger picture.Appendices: verb classes and their members; verbs found on locative inversionconstruction.