Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Manner Adverbs -- 1.2. The Operator Approach of Thomason and Stalnaker -- 1.3. The Narrow Operator Approach -- 1.4. The Event Based Approach -- 1.5. Appendix: Operators Are Not Essential -- 2. Ontology -- 2.1. Events and Sets of Times -- 2.2. Events as Spatio-Temporal Regions -- 2.3. Semantic Participants -- 2.4. Summary -- 3. Events and Their Names -- 3.1. Attribution -- 3.2. Evaluative Adverbs -- 3.3. Causation -- 4. Mereological Structure -- 4.1. Evidence in Favour of Complex Events -- 4.2. Persistent Event Structures -- 4.3. Non-boolean Conjunction -- 5. Scope -- 5.1. Modification of Big Events -- 5.2. Existential Closure, and Diesing's Mapping Hypothesis -- 5.3. On Little and Big Events -- 6. Manner Adverbs and Word Order -- 6.1. Manner Adverbs and Indefinite NPs -- 6.2. Intonation and Normality -- 6.3. Focus, and the Interpretation of Indefinites -- 6.4. Adverbs of Degree of Perfection -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. Bibliography.