Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- 1 Introduction - Prospects of an exponency-based syntax -- 2 The necessity of exponents and the nature of Ʃ-structure -- 3 Norwegian and Swedish passives: empirical facts -- 4 Deconstructing Norwegian and Swedish passives -- 5 Differences in the expression of middles in Norwegian and Swedish -- 6 Extensions: anticausatives, reciprocal uses, and additional properties of exponents -- References -- Index