Introduction -- I. Verbal Categories in Syntax and Lexicon -- Don't Call it "X" or: Why X does not Represent Grammatical Categories -- Functional Affixes and Downward Percolation -- The -ing-Affixes: towards a Classification -- One Be: One Syntactic Function -- II. Verb Classes, Lexical Representations, and Syntactic Reflexes -- Intransitive Verbs as Case Assigners -- English Particle Verbs: Particles as Functional Categories -- The Lexical-Conceptual Structure of English Verbs of Possession -- Subject-there as an Adverb -- III. Verb Positions and Movement -- Aspectual Complement Clauses and the (Un-)Availability of Verb Raising -- Verb Second, Alternatives, and Economy -- Types of VP-Preposing -- List of Contributors.