<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> In addition to the canonical expression of the argument structure of verbs in the form of intransitive or transitive constructions with noun or prepositional phrases, arguments can also be structured in diverse ways in complex non-canonical form. Such argument structures show interesting variations, especially in comparative linguistics, as this volume illustrates based on studies of German, Romanian, and English.