Contents -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. General introduction -- 2. Main objective -- 3. Intended readership -- 4. Object of description -- 5. Organization of the material -- 6. History of the project and future prospects -- 7. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Adpositions: characteristics and classification -- 1.1. Characterization of the category adposition -- 1.2. A formal classification of adpositional phrases -- 1.3. A semantic classification of adpositional phrases -- 1.4. Borderline cases -- 1.5. Bibliographical notes -- Chapter 2. Projection of adpositional phrases: Complementation -- 2.1. Nominal complements -- 2.2. Adpositional complements -- 2.3. Adjectival complements -- 2.4. Clausal complements -- 2.5. Absolute PPs -- 2.6. Bibliographical notes -- Chapter 3. Projection of adpositional phrases: Modification -- 3.1. Spatial adpositional phrases -- 3.2. Temporal adpositional phrases -- 3.3. Non-spatial/temporal adpositional phrases -- 3.4. Comparative/superlative formation -- 3.5. Some ambiguous constructions -- 3.6. Bibliographical note -- Chapter 4. Syntactic uses of the adpositional phrase -- 4.1. Adpositional phrases used as arguments -- 4.2. Predicative use of adpositional phrases -- 4.3. Attributive use of adpositional phrases -- 4.4. Adverbial use of adpositional phrases -- 4.5. Bibliographical notes -- Chapter 5. R-pronominalization and R-words -- 5.1. [-Human] restriction on the formation of pronominal PPs -- 5.2. Lexical restrictions on the formation of pronominal PPs -- 5.3. Syntactic restrictions on R-extraction -- 5.4. Idiomatic pronominal PPs -- 5.5. Appendix: The syntax of R-words -- 5.6. Bibliographical notes -- Glossary -- Subject Index -- References -- Comprehensive Grammar Resources - the series.