The increasingly syntactic approach to causatives has become an important element of modern linguistic thinking. This interest in the syntactic and semantic properties of causative constructions characterizes many of the papers collected in this volume.

1. Preface; 2. The inflectional category of voice: towards a more rigorous definition (by Mel'cuk, Igor); 3. Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languages (by Kibrik, Andrej A.); 4. Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: evidence from Russian (by Nichols, Johanna); 5. More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations (by Haspelmath, Martin); 6. The "second causative": a typological sketch (by Kulikov, Leonid); 7. "Make" and the semantic origins of causativity: a typological study (by Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos); 8. Causatives and causality: towards a semantic typology of causal relations (by Podlesskaya, Vera I.); 9. Causee and patient in the causative of transitive: coding conflict or doubling of grammatical relations? (by Kozinsky, Isaac); 10. Bystander voice in English: a generalization masked in some versions of theta theory (by Chvany, Catherine V.); 11. Causative constructions in Svan: further evidence for role domination (by Sumbatova, Nina R.); 12. The causative in Yukaghir (by Maslova, Elena S.); 13. Alutor causatives, noun incorporation, and the Mirror Principle (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 14. Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai (by Comrie, Bernard); 15. Through the looking-glass, and how causatives look there (by Kulikov, Leonid); 16. Hybrid causative constructions: benefactive causative and adversity passive (by Babby, Leonard H.); 17. Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissive (by Malchukov, Andrej); 18. On non-causative effects of causativity in Aleut (by Golovko, Evgeniy V.); 19. Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers (by Plungian, Vladimir A.); 20. Index of languages