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Introduction Carol Tenny and James Pustejovsky; Part I. FoundationalIssues in Event Semantics: 1. What lexical semantics reveals about the natureof events Beth Levin; 2. Events, predication, and Qualia structure JamesPustejovsky; Part II. Grammatical Components of Complex Events: 3. TheQuantization puzzle Hana Filip; 4. Events and thematic role assignments toaffected objects Gregory Carlson; Part III. Event Structure and the Syntaxand Semantics of Adverbs: 5. Some effects of manner adverbials on meaningJune M. Wickboldt; 6. Manners and events Tom Ernst; 7. Core events andadverbial modification Carol Tenny; Part IV. Event Structure andMorphosyntax: 8. Event structure in syntax Lisa Travis; 9. Verb Framealternations in Dutch and their acquisition Angeliek Van Hout; 10. Ergativityand event structure Elizabeth Ritter and Sara Rosen; 11. On lexical verbmeanings: evidence from Salish Henry Davis and Hamida Demirdache; Part V.Grammaticalization of Events and Non-Events: 12. On the internal structure ofstative psychological causatives in Finnish Liina Pylkkanen; 13. Antineo-Davidsonianism Graham Katz; Part VI. Thoughts: 14. Where we are in thestudy of events in natural language Barbara Partee.