Martin Everaert is Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University and Director of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. He works primarily on the syntax-semantics interface (anaphora: reflexives, reciprocals) and the lexicon-syntax interface (idioms/collocations, and argument structure).
Marijana Marelj is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University. She completed her thesis, entitled Middles and Argument Structure across Languages under the supervision of Tanya Reinhart and Eric Reuland. Her research interests include the Architecture of grammar, properties of the computational system/syntactic theory, Interfaces (lexicon-syntax interface and syntax-semantics interface), and Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages.
Tal Siloni is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University and the chair of the department. Her major areas of research are syntactic theory and comparative syntax with particular reference to Semitic and Romance languages, the lexicon-syntax interface, argument structure, idioms, and nominalization.

• 1: Introduction: The Theta System


• 2: Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot: The Linguistic Expression of Causation


• 3: Martin Haiden: The Content of Semantic Roles: Predicate-argument structure in language and cognition


• 4: Edwin Williams: Combine


• 5: Hagit Borer: In the Event of a Nominal


• 6: Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Lexicon Uniformity and the Causative Alternation


• 7: György Rákosi: In Defense of the Non-causative Analysis of Anticausatives


• 8: Julie Fadlon: Hidden Entries: A psycholinguistic study of derivational gaps


• 9: Peter Ackema and Marijana Narelj: To Have the Empty Theta-role


• 10: Joseph Potashink: Emission Verbs


• 11: Aya Meltzer-Asscher: Verbal Passives in English and Hebrew: A comparative study


• 12: Alexis Dimitriadis: An Event Semantics for the Theta System


• 13: João Costa and Na'ama Friedmann: Children Acquire Unaccusative and A-movement Very Early on

This book considers the recent results and evaluations of the Theta System in both theoretical and experimental domains. Distinguished linguists from all over the world examine the theory in the context of an impressive array of new empirical data ranging from Germanic, Romance, and Slavic to Ugro-Finnish, and Semitic languages.