Structural Aspects of Semantically Complex Verbs

The Editors: Nicole Dehé is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig. She is involved with the research programs «Universality and Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes» and «Particle Verbs in English».
Anja Wanner is assistant professor of English Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the author of a book on verb argument alternations in English («Verbklassifizierung und aspektuelle Alternationen im Englischen»).

Contents: Nicole Dehé / Anja Wanner: Introduction - Jochen Zeller: Prefixes as Transitivizers - Cristiano Broccias: The English Resultative Construction: A Schematic Analysis - Tavs Bjerre: Verbs and Descriptions of Complex Situations - Jaume Mateu: Unselected Objects - Claudia Felser / Anja Wanner: The Syntax of Cognate and Other Unselected Objects - Andrew McIntyre: Argument Blockages Induced by Verb Particles in English and German: Event Modification and Secondary Predication - Nicole Dehé: Transitive Particle Verbs in English: The Neutral Order. Evidence from Speech Production - Holden Härtl: Mapping Conceptual onto Grammatical Structures: The Case of Psych-Verbs - Heide Wegener: Verbs of Affect from a Synchronic and a Diachronic Perspective - Antroulla Papakyriakou: Aspectual Verbs as Complex Predicates - Gh. Karimi Doostan: N + V Complex Predicates in Persian - Niina Zhang: Predicate Raising in the Chinese Secondary Predication.