Frontmatter -- Contents -- Semi-lexical categories -- Part I. Semi-lexicality and Syntactic Projection -- The flat structure economy of semi-lexical heads -- Heads and selection -- Children's semi-lexical heads -- Semantically empty lexical heads as last resorts -- Part II. Semi-lexicality in the Nominal Domain -- Numeral/Quantifier-Classifier as a complex head -- Classifiers and semi-lexicality: Functional and semantic selection -- Agreement patterns of Czech group nouns and quantifiers -- Part III. Semi-lexicality in the Verbal Domain -- On the (semi)lexical status of light verbs -- "Semi-lexical" motion verbs in Romance and Germanic -- Underspecification in serial verb constructions -- Part IV. Semi-lexicality of Adpositional and Adposition-like Elements -- Semi-lexical heads in a semantically charged syntax -- As for as / for, they are semi-lexical heads -- Lexical particles, semi-lexical postpositions -- Index