Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Event Structure and Syntactic Construction -- Patients in Igbo and Mandarin -- Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese -- Syntactic decomposition of events in Korean and Standard Indonesian -- Section II. Event Structure and Modification -- Unifying illegally -- Adverbial modification of adjectives: Evaluatives and a little beyond -- The structure of criterion predicates -- Reference to embedded eventualities -- Section III: Event Structure and Situation Aspect -- Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements -- The notion of 'path' in aspectual composition: Evidence from Japanese -- Reflexive intransitives in Spanish and event semantics -- Scalar complexity and the structure of events -- Section IV: Event Structure and Plurality -- On the plurality of verbs -- Event quantifícation and distributivity -- The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals -- Existential readings for bare plurals in object position -- Section V: Event Structure and Temporal Location -- Tense and adverbial quantification -- Phase structures and quantification -- Cohesion in temporal context: The role of aspectual adverbs -- Mandarin sentential -le, perfect and English already -- Section VI: Event Structure and Natural Language Ontology -- The lower part of event ontology -- Verbs of creation -- Short Portraits of the Authors -- Index