Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Argument hierarchy and other factors determining argument realization -- Mismatches in semantic-role hierarchies and the dimensions of role semantics -- Thematic roles - universal, particular, and idiosyncratic aspects -- Experiencer constructions in Daghestanian languages -- Clause-level vs. predicate-level linking -- From meaning to syntax - semantic roles and beyond -- Meaning, form and function in basic case roles -- Semantic macroroles and language processing -- Thematic roles as event structure relations -- Generalised semantic roles and syntactic templates: A new framework for language comprehension -- Backmatter