<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> In the realm of verbal categories, situational arguments are long-established components of lexical semantic representation. The essays in this volume use a broad range of materials to discuss the extent to which it is also possible to justify the notion of situational arguments in the realm of nominal categories. A focus is placed on deverbal nouns and participles in adjective-type distributions.