Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anticausatives -- 3. The Emergence of the French reflexive anticausative -- 4. The Spread of the French reflexive anticausative -- 5. The Semantic relation between French reflexive and unmarked anticausatives -- 6. Auxiliary selection in unmarked anticausatives and the spread of the reflexive anticausative -- 7. Conclusion