Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. The contributors 13
5. French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of the absolute use 17
6. "Over the hills and far away" or "far away over the hills": English place adverb phrases and place prepositional phrases in tandem? 37
7. Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivations 67
8. A closer look at the Hebrew Construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of mi- locatives 85
9. Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coup 115
10. Particles and postpositions in Korean 133
11. French prepositions à and de in infinitival complements: A pragma-semantic analysis 171
12. Prepositional wars: When ideology defines preposition 191
13. "Ago" and its grammatical status in English and in other languages 209
14. Case marking of Turkic adpositional objects 229
15. The logic of addition: Changes in the meaning of the Hebrew preposition im ("with"). 257
16. A monosemic view of polysemic prepositions 273
17. The development of Classical Armenian prepositions and its implications for universals of language change 289
18. Author index 301
19. Languages index 303
20. Subject index 305