In this volume, five working papers are presented. "Minimal Signs and Grammar" (Lars Hellan) proposes that a significant part of the "production" of grammar is incremental, building larger and larger constructs, with lexical objects called minimal signs as the first steps. It also suggests that the basic lexical information in grammar is essentially semantic in nature, with syntactic properties deducible by general principles. A system of features representing the most important properties in lexical description is outlined. "Derived Delimiters" (Anneliese Pitz) discusses effects of prefixation in German with respect to the delimitedness of a situation: in some cases, prefixes act as delimiters together with verbs, while in other cases they select the spatial extent of the object as delimiter. In "The Lexical Semantics of Ergative Verbs in German" (Anja J. Seibert), grammatical behavior of these verbs is explained by their semantic, not syntactic, specification. "The Monotonic Participant" (Ingebjorg Tonne) sketches a system relating the monotonic participant to the verb through aspectual features. Two principles are derived in the system, semantically restricting verb environments and narrowing syntactic possibilities of construction. "Semantic Information in "se"-Constructions in Spanish" (Angel Miguel Almagro) looks at constructions in which the clitic is used anaphorically related to the subject. Each paper contains references. (MSE)