Acknowledgements -- 1. Preliminaries -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose of this study -- 1.2 Subject matter of this study -- 1.3 Methodological considerations -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Previous classifications of SICH/SJA-verbs -- 2.2 Transitivity -- 2.3 Voice -- 2.4 Transitivity and voice -- 2.5 Comparison of some recent treatments of SICH/SJA-verbs -- 3. The contrastive analysis -- 3.1 Explanation of the theoretical framework -- 3.2 Derived Intransitivity in Russian -- 3.3 Derived Intransitivity in German -- 3.4 Derived Intransitivity in English -- 3.5 Contrastive analysis statements -- 4. Further remarks on SICH/-SJA -- 4.1 Subjectless sentences in German -- 4.2 SICH-verbs formed from intransitive verbs -- 4.3 SICH and valence -- 4.4 English subject and valence -- 4.5 Lack of subject and no valence reduction -- 4.6 -SJA, intransitive verbs and valence -- 4.7 Comparison of Derived Intransitive marker and verb subcategorization for subject -- 4.8 Syntactic and lexical derivation -- 4.9 Conclusions: restatement of SICH-Introduction and the contrastive analysis in chapter 3 -- 5. Summary -- Literatur -- List of verbs -- Register.