General Preface

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU, ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU, AND MARTIN EVERAERT

1. A Semantics for Unaccusatives and its Syntactic Consequences

GENNARO CHIERCHIA

2. Unaccusativity as Telicity Checking

ANGELIEK VAN HOUT

3. Unergative Adjectives and Psych Verbs

HANS BENNIS

4. Voice Morphology in the Causative-Inchoative Alternation: Evidence for a Non-Unified Structural Analysis of Unaccusatives

ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU AND ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU

5. Unaccusative Syntax and Verbal Alternations

DAVID EMBICK

6. Against an Unaccusative Analysis of Reflexives

TANYA REINHART AND TAL SILONI

7. Unaccusatives and Anticausatives in German

MARKUS STEINBACH

8. Syntactic Unaccusativity in Russian

MAAIKE SCHOORLEMMER

9. Gradience at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Evidence from Auxiliary Selection and Implications for Unaccusativity

ANTONELLA SORACE

10. Unaccusativiry in Saramaccan: The Syntax of Resultatives

TONJES VEENSTRA

11. The Grammar Machine

HAGIT BORER

12. Acquiring Unaccusativity: A Cross-Linguistic Look

JANET RANDALL, ANGELIEK VAN HOUT, JURGEN WEISSENBORN, AND HARALD BAAYEN

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