Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics. Long before computers could facilitate large-scale, lexically-based language study, he and his team began building an exhaustive, empirically-based inventory of the "lexicon-grammar" of French which, thirty years later, still remains the most complete syntax-based lexicon available. Researchers all over the world have adopted the Gross model of description, which serves as a computational model for any language. As can be seen in the contributions in this volume, it has been applied to languages as different as Arabic, Chinese, English, Greek or Korean (as well as the major Romance languages, of course). In this volume the reader will also find a number of articles by eminent linguists who were close friends of Maurice Gross, and frequently in dialogue with him on linguistic issues. No matter whether they shared his theoretical views, or his particular empirical methods of description, they each had great respect for his work, especially for the close-grained linguistic analysis which has set a benchmark for future generations.

Table of Contents:
1. Foreword; 2. Entretien avec Maurice Gross (by Chevalier, Jean-Claude); 3. Le Lexique-Grammaire du grec moderne (by Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, Anna); 4. Lexique-Grammaire et extensions lexicales: Note sur le semi-figement (by Balibar-Mrabti, Antoinette); 5. Instrument Nouns and Fusion: Predicative nouns designating violent actions (by Baptista, Jorge); 6. La constitution d'une concordance de verbes de l'ancien francais (by Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava); 7. Les adjectifs derives de noms de parties du corps dans les textes medicaux (by Borillo, Andree); 8. A propos des phrases transitives en arabe: Sur quelques criteres de reconnaissance des objets directs (by Chad, Mohamed); 9. Etude distributionnelle des constructions en ba en chinois (by Ting-Au, Cheng); 10. Principes d'analyse automatique des proverbes (by Conenna, Mirella); 11. Sur la valeur de l' " incise " et sa postposition: Signe mimique et " style indirect libre " (by Cornulier, Benoit de); 12. Dictionnaires electroniques DELAF anglais et francais (by Courtois, Blandine); 13. Lexicon-Grammar, Electronic Dictionaries and Local Grammars of Italian (by D'Agostino, Emilio); 14. Coreference evenementielle entre deux phrases (by Danlos, Laurence); 15. Strings, Lists and Intonation in Garden Path Sentences: Can it, plan it, or planet? (by Dougherty, Ray C.); 16. Les relatifs de surface (by Dubois, Jean); 17. Les attributs du complement d'objet (by Dugas, Andre); 18. Une etude de corpus pour eclairer la question du verbe de l'incise en Francais (by Fairon, Cedrick); 19. Les prepositions forment-elles une classe? (by Gaatone, David); 20. Une construction tronquee du verbe faire: Jean fait le (brave + cachottier + repentant + enfant gate) (by Giry-Schneider, Jacqueline); 21. Classes semantiques et description des langues (by Gross, Gaston); 22. Multi-Lexemic Expressions: an overview (by Guenthner, Franz); 23. Here and There (by Kayne, Richard S.); 24. Sur l'ordre des adjectifs (by Kiefer, Ferenc); 25. Anaphores associatives: du large a l'etroit (by Kleiber, Georges); 26. Tree pruning (by Kuroda, S.-Y.); 27. Lexiques-grammaires compares: Quelques observations sur des differences syntaxiques en francais de France et du Quebec (by Labelle, Jacques); 28. Italian People at Work: Jobs in Lexical Syntax (by Fauci, Nunzio La); 29. La structure de la phrase en francais de Belgique (by Lamiroy, Beatrice); 30. Restructuration and the subject of adjectives (by Laporte, Eric); 31. Synonymie de mots et synonymie de phrases: une approche formelle (by Leclere, Christian); 32. Les aventures de Max et Eve, j'ai aime: A propos d'un C.O.D. "Canada Dry" (by Leeman, Danielle); 33. Nominalizations of English Neutral Verbs (by Machonis, Peter A.); 34. Remarks on the Complementation of Aspectual Verbs (by Ranchhod, Elisabete); 35. A propos de [pc-z.] (by Muller, Claude); 36. Some Linguistic Problems in Building a Korean Electronic Lexicon of Simple Verbs (by Nam, Jeesun); 37. Du locatif directionnel au datif dans les constructions du verbe arriver (by Ogata, Kozue); 38. La conjonction meme si n'existe pas! (by Piot, Mireille); 39. A Remark on English Double Negatives (by Postal, Paul M.); 40. Deverbatif et diathese en malgache (by Rabenilaina, Roger-Bruno); 41. Les travaux en Lexique-Grammaire du malgache et leurs extensions (by Raharinirina Rabaovololona, Lucie); 42. Shall we hors d'/uvres? The Assimilation of Gallicisms into English (by Renouf, Antoinette); 43. The Syntax of Emphasis - A Base Camp (by Ross, Haj); 44. Verbs of Mental States (by Salkoff, Morris); 45. Diphtongues vocaliques et diphtongues consonantiques (by Schane, Sanford A.); 46. Time in Language - Language in Time: A Leibnizian Perspective (by Schnelle, Helmut); 47. Reconnaissance des determinants francais (by Silberztein, Max); 48. Essai d'interpretation fonctionnelle des tables du Lexique-Grammaire (by Tsuruga, Yoichiro); 49. Some Elements for an Empirical Approach to the Study of Meaning (by Vergnaud, Jean-Roger); 50. Morphologie derivationnelle et mots simples: Le cas du serbo-croate (by Vitas, Dusko); 51. Une grille d'analyse pour les predicats nominaux (by Vives, Robert); 52. Publications de Maurice Gross: Bibliographie etablie par Takuya Nakamura