Transitivity -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Trans-duction -- 1. Transitive ideals -- 1.1 One and two place predications and functions -- 1.2 Forms and meanings -- 1.3 Differentiating forms or not -- 2. Transience and perfecticism -- 2.1 The transitive pendulum -- 2.2 Ordinary and other individuals -- 2.3 Categories, syntax and lexicon -- References -- Part I Form and meaning -- Types of transitivity, intransitive objects, and untransitivity - and the logic of their structural designs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview -- 2.1 Ergatives are perfective intransitives -- 2.2 The range of the discussion -- 3. Main tenets around verbal argumenthood and transitivity -- 3.1 Argument conditions -- 3.2 Aspect conditions on identifying iV as opposed to eV -- 3.3 Theta role related considerations and claims -- 3.4 Lexical and syntactic reflexivization - reflexive verbs and reflexive constructions -- 4. Direct object (DO) accusative retained with analytic and reflexive passives -- 4.1 Objects not promoting to subject: Object incorporation -- 4.2 Agreement and diathetic auxiliary alignment: The transitive object accusative and the Romance perfect -- 4.3 The radical proposal: Intransitives are in fact deeper transitives -- 4.4 The aspect condition -- 4.5 Nominal classifers -- 5. The emergence of cognate object constituents in the history of German -- 5.1 Active and passive cognate object constituents (Funktionsverbgefüge) -- 5.2 What is behind the grammaticalization of the German light verb constructions (Funktionsverbgefüge)? -- 5.3 Perfectivity as a dominant property - pseudo-transitivzation -- 6. Unaccusativity, perfectivity, and the Modist's assumptions about universal grammar -- 6.1 The Pre-Cartesian, Modistic - the 'Uncartesian' - concept of universal grammar -- 6.2 The deeper reason of vP vs. VP.

6.3 What is behind the claim that all verbs should be transitives, in the first place? The argument beyond the empirical attestations -- 6.4 Secondary transitivity and covert transitivity: From intransitivity to secondary resultativity -- 7. Split auxiliary selection and the Unaccusative Hypothesis: Transitivity parameters -- 7.1 The search for a uniquely motivated auxiliary selection -- 7.2 Motion verbs: Exceptions to unaccusativity? -- 8. Summary and conclusion -- 8.1 Intransitives are deep transitives? -- 8.2 The derivative tasks of either lexicon or syntax -- References -- The interaction of transitivity features in the Sinhala involitive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. High and low transitivity -- 3. Volitive and involitive verbs - Syntax and semantics -- 4. The irrealis nature of involitive stems in Sinhala -- 5. Subject case and verb type -- 5.1 Dative vs. atiŋ subjects -- 5.2 Nominative vs. accusative subjects -- 5.3 The interaction of verb type, semantic case, and volitivity -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Transitivity in Chinese experiencer object verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chinese experiential verbs and constructions -- 3. Semantic properties -- 3.1 Agentivity -- 3.2 Aktionsart -- 4. Syntactic properties -- 5. Summary -- References -- Non-zero/non-zero alternations in differential object marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Harmonic alignment -- 2.2 Impoverishment -- 2.3 Iconicity -- 3. Proposal -- 4. Case studies -- 4.1 Object marking in Hindi -- 4.2 Differential encoding of objects in Mannheim German -- 4.3 Trumai -- 4.4 Cavineña -- 5. Summary -- References -- Part II Acquisition and processing -- Children and transitivity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prominence -- 3. Animacy -- 4. Definiteness -- 4.1 Corpus study definiteness -- 4.2 Corpus study locality -- 5. Conclusions -- References.

Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Transitivity in language comprehension -- 3. The present study -- 3.1 Experimental design and hypotheses -- 3.2 Participants -- 3.3 Materials -- 3.4 Procedure -- 3.5 EEG recording -- 3.6 Data analysis -- 3.7 Results - behavioral data -- 3.8 Results - ERP data -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Consequences for the language processing architecture -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A: ERPs at the positions of NP1 and NP2 -- NP1 -- NP2 -- Appendix B: List of abbreviations -- Part III Transitivity and diathesis -- The space between one and two -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The pronominal stage -- 2.1 Referential -- 2.2 Reflexive -- 2.3 Reciprocal -- 3. The voice row -- 3.1 Autocausative -- 3.1.1 Inherently reflexive verbs -- 3.1.2 Inherently reciprocal verbs -- 3.2 Spontaneous -- 3.3 Passive -- 3.4 Two-participant events -- 4. Generic excursions -- 4.1 Facilitative -- 4.2 Deobjective -- 4.3 Arbitrary -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The event-structural constraint under closer scrutiny -- 3. Event-structure and referential demotion -- 4. Summary -- References -- Part IV Crosslinguistic and crosscategorical considerations -- Lability and spontaneity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Labile verbs -- 3. Labile verbs and spontaneity -- 3.1 Peaks of lability (situations frequently denoted by labile verbs) -- 3.2 Average numbers of labile lexemes in the spontaneous and the non-spontaneous zone -- 3.3 Lability in individual languages -- 4. Semantic classification -- 4.1 Lexical semantics and labile verbs in individual languages -- 4.2 Verbs with animate patients: Why are they so rare? -- 4.3 Motion and phasal verbs -- 5. Why are labile verbs so different from causatives and anticausatives? -- 6. Conclusions.

References -- Transitivity of deverbal nominals and aspectual modifiers of the verbal stem (evidence from Russian) -- 1. Problem and suffixes under discussion -- 1.1 Approaches and questions -- 1.2 Suffixes -- 2. Transitivity of the verbal stem -- 2.1 Types of deverbal nominals derived from transitive and intransitive stems -- 2.2 Suffixes and transitivity of the verbal stem -- 3. Aktionsart affixes and transitivity -- 3.1 Aspectual prefixes and suffixes in the verbal stem -- 3.2 Transitivity preferences and derivational morphemes in the stem -- 3.3 Why this correlation? -- 3.4 Verbal stem structure: Prefixes, suffixes, nominalizers -- 4. General consequences -- References -- Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Animacy, core cases, and spatial cases -- 3. From cases to adpositions -- 4. A corpus study of Dutch Ps -- 4.1 The corpus -- 4.2 Results -- 4.2.1 Do Dutch adpositions show restrictions with respect to animacy? -- 4.2.2 Do Dutch adpositions show restrictions with respect to semantic role? -- 4.2.3 Can semantic role interpretation be modeled as a function of animacy? -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Language index -- Subject index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.