Asymmetric events are two or more events of unequal status in an utterance. This work introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including genetically unrelated ones.

1. Introduction; 2. Part I: Event chains and complex events; 3. 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach (by Newman, John); 4. 2. Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language (by Casad, Eugene H.); 5. 3. Spanish (de)queisimo: Part/whole alternation and viewing arrangement (by Delbecque, Nicole); 6. 4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language? (by Kwon, Nayoung); 7. 5. Verb serialization as a means to express complex events in Thai (by Thepkanjana, Kingkarn); 8. 6. Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry: Connective and accessibility marker interactions (by Izutsu, Katsunobu); 9. Part II: Subordination, nominalization, modification; 10. 7. Subordination in Cognitive grammar (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 11. 8. Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories (by Cristofaro, Sonia); 12. 9. Asymmetry reversal (by Lichtenberk, Frantisek); 13. 10. Transparency vs. Economy: How does Adioukrou resolve the conflict? (by Horie, Kaoru); 14. 11. Relating participants across asymmetric events: Conceptual constraints on obligatory control (by Panther, Klaus-Uwe); 15. 12. The Portugese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis (by Soares da Silva, Augusto); 16. 13. The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: Semantic and discourse constraints (by Heyvaert, Liesbet); 17. 14. Asymmetries in participial modification (by Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara); 18. Author index; 19. Subject index