Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications

Contents: I. Events - states - causation: Manfred Bierwisch, The event structure of cause and become. - Stefan Engelberg Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects. - Anita Mittwoch, Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations. - Kay-Eduardo González/Eva-Maria Remberger, Ser and estar. The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish. - Horst Lohnstein, Sentence connection as quantificational structure. - II. Event nominals: Artemis Alexiadou, Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation. - Ingrid Kaufmann, Referential arguments of nouns and verbs. - III. Events in composition: Angelika Kratzer, Building resultatives. - Daniel Hole, Reconciling >possessor< datives and >beneficiary< datives. Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German. - Werner Abraham, Event arguments and modal verbs. - IV. Measuring events: Patrick Caudal/David Nicolas, Types of degrees and types of event structures. - Regine Eckardt, Too poor to mention. Subminimal events and negative polarity items. - Kimiko Nakanishi, Semantic properties of split topicalization in German.