This book analyzes events & narratives from the points of view of literature grammar discourse & semantics The contributors explore the issues related to the ways of portraying stories & their events within a cultural & literary framework They also examine the role of prefixes in construing events & asymmetries that exist in time-creating event markers from a contrastive perspective The contributions focus on narrativity as a semantic category & on how events are described in signed languages They place the event & narrative categories at the center of interest & their specific goals are pursued by applying different both qualitative & quantitative research methods