This volume is functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies. The orientation of the volume is substantive rather than formal.

1. Dedication; 2. Editors' Introduction; 3. Zygmunt Frajzyngier * April 3, 1938 (by Shay, Erin); 4. Zygmunt Frajzyngier's contributions to the study of language structure (by Seibert, Uwe); 5. The myth of doubly governing prepositions in German (by Abraham, Werner); 6. Localisation et mouvement dans le syntagme verbal du groupe tchadique central (by Colombel, Veronique de); 7. Left, right, and the cardinal directions: Some thoughts on consistency and usage (by Comrie, Bernard); 8. Location and direction in Klamath (by DeLancey, Scott); 9. Locatives as core constituents (by Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.); 10. 'Come'and 'go' as discourse connectors in Kera and other Chadic languages (by Ebert, Karen H.); 11. Altrilocality in Tangale and Tuareg: A common heritage feature? (by Jungraithmayr, Herrmann); 12. Location and motion in !Xun (Namibia) (by Konig, Christa); 13. Directionality and displaced directionality in Toqabaqita (by Lichtenberk, Frantisek); 14. Motion, direction and spatial configuration: A lexical semantic study of 'hang' verbs in Mandarin (by Liu, Mei-chun); 15. Coding location, motion and direction in Old Babylonian Akkadian (by Macelaru, Adrian); 16. Motion events in Chantyal (by Noonan, Michael); 17. Locative prepositions in Chadic: Lexical or grammatical morphemes (by Pawlak, Nina); 18. Two Lakhota locatives and the role of introspection in linguistic analysis (by Rood, David S.); 19. Directional verbs in Japanese (by Shibatani, Masayoshi); 20. L'encodage de la localisation, de la direction et du mouvement dans les langues " Kotoko " du Cameroun (by Tourneux, Henry); 21. Index