The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.

Series editors' preface ; Introduction ; 1. A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences ; 2. Unaccusativity as telicity checking ; 3. Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs ; 4. Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives ; 5. Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations ; 6. Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives ; 7. Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German ; 8. Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian ; 9. Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection ; 10. Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives ; 11. The grammar machine ; 12. Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look ; Index