TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1. Rudiments of the model 1.2. Introduction to middles 1.3. The roadmap PART I: MIDDLES IN ENGLISH 2. General properties of anticausatives, or: against a derivational analysis of anticausatives 3. Introduction to English anticausatives 3.1. Eligible bases of anticausatives in English 3.1.1. Limitations on correspondences between anticausatives and causatives 3.1.2. Basic units for English anticausatives 3.2. Towards a morpho-syntactic representation of anticausatives 3.2.1. Causative or not? 3.2.2. Complex event semantics 3.2.3. Against Alexiadou s et al. (2015) model of anticausative alternation 3.3. Processual and State projections for English anticausatives 4. Introduction to English dispositional middles 4.1. General properties of dispositional middles 4.1.1. The role of adverbial modification in dispositional middle structures 4.1.2. Modality and stativity of dispositional middles 4.2. Similarity of anticausatives and dispositional middles 4.2.1. Classes of verbs that can form dispositional middles (or, looking for a black cat in a dark room) 4.2.2. The structure for dispositional middles in English 5. Deponents in English - An introduction 5.1. Verbs resembling middle deponents 5.2. Middle deponents vs. unaccusatives 5.3. Towards the structure of middle deponents 5.3.1. Middle deponents with resultative (State) projections 5.3.2. Middle deponents with by itself phrases 5.3.3. Middle deponents with from phrases 6. Conclusion PART II: MIDDLES IN POLISH 7. Introduction 8. Anticausatives 8.1. Introduction - The Slavic perspective 8.2. Anticausatives in Polish 8.2.1. Are anticausatives a uniform class of verbs? 8.2.2. Illusory differences between analytic and synthetic anticausatives 8.2.3. Telicity as a distinguishing criterion 8.2.4. Causatives with corresponding anticausatives 8.3. Reflexively marked anticausatives as non-reflexive forms 8.3.1. The properties of the clitic się 8.3.2. By itself phrase with anticausatives 8.3.3. Subjects of analytic anticausatives as internal arguments 8.3.3.1. Genitive case internal arguments as subjects of analytic anticausatives 8.3.3.2. Scope of negation in analytic anticausatives 8.3.3.3. Scrambling phenomena in analytic anticausatives 8.3.3.4. Information structure 8.3.4. Historical evidence 8.4. Conclusion 9. Deponents in Polish 9.1. Similarities between deponents and anticausatives 10. Introduction to dispositional and stage-level middles 10.1. Dispositional middles proper 10.2. Middles with stage-level properties 10.3. Lexicalization of middles 10.4. Interim summary 10.5. Towards the structure of middles 10.5.1. Causation in middles and anticausatives 10.5.2. By itself modification in middles, deponents and anticausatives 10.5.3. The meaning of clauses with łatwo easily 10.5.4. Eventive anticausatives vs. generic middles 10.5.5. Instrumental arguments with middles 10.5.6. Modality of middle clauses 10.5.7. Agent-oriented adverbs with middles 10.5.8. Affected subjects with middles 10.5.9. Conclusion 10.6. Scarcity of middle structures in Polish 10.7. Summary PART III: SUBREGULARITIES WITHIN THE REALM OF MIDDLES - SOME IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY 11. Stage-level vs. individual level predications revisited 12. Prefixation systems of Polish middles revisited 13. Conclusion References
