Table of contents

Part One - Syntactic Issues Introduction i The Layered Internal Structure of Spatial PPs Seiki Ayano 3 The Particularity of Particles, or Why They Are Not Just 'Intransitive Prepositions' Bert Cappelle 29 Some Observations on the Syntax of Adpositions of Movement Ludo Melis 59 Locative Complements of Verbs of Movement in Czech: Some Typical Structures and Their Interpretation Marta Ungermanová 87 Pronominal Adverbs Containing Adpositions of Direction in Dutch: Formation and Splitting Ingrid Van Canegem-Ardijns and William Van Belle 115 On 'Syntactic' versus 'Semantic' Telicity: Evidence from In and On Emma Thomas 145 Directionality and the Complementation of Dutch Adpositions Jesse Tseng 167 Part Two - Semantic Issues Catalan Adpositions of 'Movement' as Aspectual Particles: Cap (a) and Fins (a) Nuria Alturo 197 Vers and Contre:Two Ways of Expressing Spatial Direction in French Andrée Borillo 225 Rethinking English 'Prepositions of Movement':The Case of To and Through Vyvyan Evans and Andrea Tyler 247 Polysemy in Basque Locational Cases Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano 271 Motion, Path, and Aspect: The Case of the German Path Adpositions Über and Durch Birgitta Meex 299