Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part 1. Atypical realization of the main arguments of the verb
5. Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian 3
6. Non-canonical ‘existential-like‘ constructions in colloquial Modern Hebrew 27
7. IO realizations in Spanish reverse psych verb sentences 61
8. Non-human agents as subjects in English and Dutch 87
9. Part 2. Valency-changing devices and non-finite verb forms
10. The argument-structure configuration of English middle and related structures 115
11. Non-categorical categories 131
12. Part 3. Variations in transitivity
13. The semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations 163
14. Atypical argument structures in French 181
15. Split intransitivity in Lamaholot (East Flores, Indonesia) 203
16. Part 4. Norm variation in predicate-arguments relations
17. Geographic variation in a non-canonical infinitive structure with the modal verb brauchen 243
18. Verbal constructions in spoken language deviating from the norm 265
19. Index of authors 283
20. Index of subjects 287