Foreword -- I Approaches to the PPP - Past and Present -- 1 Traditional definition -- 2 Survey of past treatment -- 3 Present analysis -- II The Semantics of Subject -- 1 Procedure -- 2 Subject notions -- 3 Subject notion and object eligibility -- III The Semantics of Object -- 1 Procedure -- 2 Object notions -- 3 Object notion and subject eligibility -- IV PPP Acceptability -- 1 Semantic-syntactic configuration -- 2 Lexical choice -- 3 Contextualization -- 4 Acceptability in practice -- V Grammar and Theory of the PPP -- 1 Towards a grammar of the PPP -- 2 The PPP and the passive proper -- 3 The PPP and the active -- 4 The PPP and linguistic theory -- Appendix: Corpus correlation between surface preposition and semantic function -- A Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs -- References.