Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Object marking in cross-linguistic perspective -- What is an object in a crosslinguistic perspective? -- Nominal and / or verbal marking of central actants -- (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues -- Section 2: Transitivity and objects in Romance languages -- The object clitic pronoun in Italian: a functional interpretation -- Prepositional objects in Neapolitan -- From subject to object and from object to subject: (de)personalization, floating, and reanalysis in presentative verbs -- Changes of valence and their effect on objects -- Transitivity and grammaticalization of object. The struggle of direct and indirect object in Spanish Concepción Company Company -- Non-diachrony of ditransitivity in Spanish -- Argument structure of perception verbs and actance variation of the Spanish direct object -- Subject Index.