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1. Introduction; PART I LEXICAL REPRESENTATION; 2. Reflections onManner/Result Complementarity; 3. Verbs, Constructions, and Semantic Frames;4. Contact and Other Results; 5. The Lexical Encoding of Idioms; PART IIARGUMENT STRUCTURE AND THE COMPOSITIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF PREDICATES; 6. TheEmergence of Argument Structure in Two New Sign Languages; 7. Animacy inBlackfoot Implications for Event Structure and Clause Structure; 8. LexiconVersus Syntax Evidence From Morphological Causatives; 9. On the Morphosyntaxof (Anti-)Causative Verbs; 10. Saturated Adjectives, Reified Properties; PARTIII SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC COMPOSITION OF EVENT STRUCTURE; 11. Incrementalhomegeneity and the Semantics of Aspectual for-phrases; 12. Event Measurementand Containment; 13. Morphological Aspect and the Function and Distributionof Cognate Objects Across Languages; 14. Locales; 15. Modal and TemporalAspects of Habituality; References; Index