This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors to the volume share a commitment to examining the language phenomena pertaining to the volume’s theme with a fresh eye. While most of the papers make reference to existing theoretical frameworks, each also makes a novel and sometimes surprising contribution to the body of knowledge and theory concerning motional, directional and locational predicates, complements, morphology, adpositions and other phenomena. This collection of articles suitably complements courses on comparative and diachronic linguistics, semantics, syntax, typology, or field methods.Table of contentsDedication vii Editors’ Introduction ix Zygmunt Frajzyngier * April 3, 1938 Erin Shay 1–4 Zygmunt Frajzyngier’s contributions to the study of language structure Uwe Seibert 5–18 The myth of doubly governing prepositions in German Werner Abraham 19–38 Localisation et mouvement dans le syntagme verbal du groupe tchadique central Véronique de Colombel 39–50 Left, right, and the cardinal directions: Some thoughts on consistency and usage Bernard Comrie 51–58 Location and direction in Klamath Scott DeLancey 59–90 Locatives as core constituents Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 91–109 ‘Come’and ‘go’ as discourse connectors in Kera and other Chadic languages Karen Ebert 111–122 Altrilocality in Tangale and Tuareg: A common heritage feature? Herrmann Jungraithmayr 123–128 Location and motion in !Xun (Namibia) Christa König and Bernd Heine 129–150 Directionality and displaced directionality in Toqabaqita František Lichtenberk 151–175 Motion, direction and spatial configuration: A lexical semantic study of ‘hang’ verbs in Mandarin Mei-chun Liu 177–187 Coding location, motion and direction in Old Babylonian Akkadian Adrian Macelaru 189–210 Motion events in Chantyal Michael Noonan 211–234 Locative prepositions in Chadic: Lexical or grammatical morphemes Nina Pawlak 235–254 Two Lakhota locatives and the role of introspection in linguistic analysis David S. Rood 255–258 Directional verbs in Japanese Masayoshi Shibatani 259–286 L’encodage de la localisation, de la direction et du mouvement dans les langues << Kotoko >> du Cameroun Henry Tourneux 287–297 Index 299–303