This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of drawing those generalizations that are most significant from a cross-linguistic perspective. Many ideas which are at best only hinted at in earlier literature – such as the precise relation among resultative, perfect, and stative, or correlations between resultative and passive voice – are here for the first time stated precisely and given a firm foundation by means of detailed exemplification from a wide range of languages.

Table of Contents:
1. Foreword (by Comrie, Bernard); 2. Preface (by Nedjalkov, Vladimir P.); 3. From the Preface to the Russian Edition; 4. Abbreviations; 5. I. Theoretical Aspects of the Investigation of Resultative Constructions; 6. The Typology of Resultative Constructions (by Nedjalkov, Vladimir P.); 7. Resultative, Perfect and Aspect (by Maslov, Jurij S.); 8. The Structure of Verbal Meaning and the Resultative (by Sil'nickij, George G.); 9. Resultatives: Classification and Calculus (by Jaxontov, Sergej Je.); 10. II. Resultative Constructions Across Languages; 11. Resultative in Chinese (by Jaxontov, Sergej Je.); 12. Resultative and Continuative in Nivkh (by Nedjalkov, Vladimir P.); 13. Resultative and Perfect in Chukchee (by Nedjalkov, Vladimir P.); 14. The Resultative in Archi (by Kibrik, Aleksandr E.); 15. Resultative and Passive in Aleut (by Golovko, Evgeniy V.); 16. Resultative in Asiatic Eskimo (by Vaxtin, Nikolaj B.); 17. Resultative and Perfect in Mongolian (by Dugarova, Galina S.); 18. Stative, Resultive, and Perfect Passive in Uzbek (by Nasilov, Dmitrij M.); 19. Resultative in Ewe (by Litvinov, Viktor P.); 20. Stative, Resultative, Passive, and Perfect in Evenki (by Nedjalkov, Igor' V.); 21. Stative, Resultative, Passive and Perfect in Georgian (by Macavariani, Maja V.); 22. Stative, Resultative, Passive, and Perfect in Ancient Greek (Homeric Greek) (by Perel'muter, Ilja A.); 23. Stative, Resultative, Perfect, and Passive in Tongan (by Polinskaja, Marija S.); 24. Resultative, Passive and Neutral verbs in Indonesian (by Salim, Agus); 25. Resultative and Passive in Arabic (by Xrakovskij, Victor S.); 26. Resultative, Passive and Perfect in Russian (by Knjazev, Jurij P.); 27. Resultative, Passive, and Perfect in Lithuanian (by Geniusiene, Emma S.); 28. Resultative, Passive, and Perfect in Russian Dialects (by Trubinskij, Valentin I.); 29. Resultative, Passive, and Perfect in German (by Nedjalkov, Vladimir P.); 30. Resultative, Passive, and Perfect in Norwegian (by Berkov, Valerij P.); 31. Resultative, Passive and Perfect in Armenian (by Kozinceva, Natalia A.); 32. Resultative and Perfect Passive in Finnish (by Volodin, Aleksandr P.); 33. Resultative and Apparent Evidential in Dogon (by Plungian, Vladimir A.); 34. Resultatives: Results and Discussion (by Kozinsky, Isaac); 35. References; 36. Sources; 37. Personal Names Index; 38. Language Index; 39. Subject Index