i-iv -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Events - states - causation -- The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME -- Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects -- Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations -- Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish -- Sentence connection as quantificational structure -- Section II: Event nominals -- Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation -- Referential arguments of nouns and verbs -- Section III: Events in composition -- Building resultatives -- Reconciling "possessor" datives and "beneficiary" datives - Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German -- Event arguments and modal verbs -- Section IV: Measuring events -- Types of degrees and types of event structures -- Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items -- Semantic properties of split topicalization in German -- Author index -- Subject index