Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties.

1. Introduction 2. Towards a Comprehensive Characterization of Adpositions 3. A Crosslinguistic Survey of the Morphological Diversity of Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases 4. Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases in a Syntactic Perspective 5. Adpositions From the Semantic Point of View References Subject Index Language Index

Claude Hagege , College de France