In the past two decades, the study of prepositions has grown steadily. The papers collected in this volume bring together the multifaceted perspectives on prepositions that have been developed in contemporary linguistics. Some papers mainly discuss syntactic (and morphological) aspects of prepositions; other papers predominantly focus on cognitive aspects. All the papers are, however, concerned with the semantics of prepositions. This volume evolved from a workshop on prepositions held at Hamburg University on June 26 and 27, 1998.

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Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

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Inhalt: Hubert Cuyckens/Günter Radden, Introduction. - Gisa Rauh, Prepositions, Features, and Projections. - Dagmar Haumann, The Projections of Temporal Prepositions. - Niina Ning Zhang, Movement within a Spatial Phrase. - Britta Mondorf, The Effect of Prepositional Complements on the Choice of Synthetic or Analytic Comparatives. - Günter Rohdenburg, Processing Complexity and the Variable Use of Prepositions. - Claudio Di Meola, Präpositionale Rektionsalternationen unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Grammatikalisierung. - Priska-Monika Hottenroth, Fortbewegungsverben und Ortswechsel im Französischen. - Birgitta Meex, Die Wegpräposition über. - Walter de Mulder/Anne Vanderheyden, The Evolution of French Sur. - Maaike Beliën, Force Dynamics in Static Prepositions. - Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando, Towards a Description of the Meaning of At. - Günter Radden/Elizabeth Matthis, Why Similar To, but Different From? - Hubert Cuyckens, Metonymy in Prepositions.