| General Concepts | |
| Beyond geometric and logical descriptions of space: A functional description | |
| The geometric description of space | |
| The logical description of spatial propositions | |
| A functional description of spatial prepositions | |
| The asymmetry of spatial relations | |
| Target and landmark | |
| The relation of landmark and speaker | |
| Directional and functional prepositions | |
| The representation of objects | |
| The idealization of the terms of a spatial relation | |
| Intrinsic orientation of objects | |
| The contextual orientation of objects | |
| Concepts involved in the description of spatial prepositions | |
| The corpus of the description | |
| Prepositional use | |
| Complex primitives and language acquisition | |
| Pragmatic bridges and language acquisition | |
| Review | |
| Spatial Prepositions5. The expressions près de / loin deand accessibility | |
| The expressions près de / loin deand distance | |
| Accessibility and the norm | |
| The description of the expressions près de / loin de5.4. A comparison of the expressions près de /nbsp;proche de6. Positions of the vertical axis | |
| The vertical axis | |
| The expressions au-dessus de / en dessous de7. The prepositions devant / derrièreand general orientation | |
| General orientation | |
| The prepositions devant / derrièreand general orientation | |
| The prepositional terms of the relations devant / derrière7.4. The expressions en face de / dans le dos deand frontal direction | |
| The expressions à gauche / à droiteand lateral orientation | |
| The advantages of the lateral direction over the line of sight | |
| The advantages of lateral orientation over lateral direction | |
| La gauche / la droite8.4. The prepositional terns of à gauche / à droite9. The prepositions devant / derrièreand access to perception | |
| Bisemy of the prepositions devant / derrière9.2. A unified description of the English expressions in front of / in back of9.3. The second usage rule of the prepositions devant / derrière9.4. The impetus of the prepositions devant / derrière10. The prepositions avant / aprèsand order in potential encounter | |
| The prepositions avant / aprèsand order along a scale | |
| The prepositions avant / aprèsand relative movement | |
| Potential encounter | |
| The expressions en avant / en arrière10.5. The distributions of avant / aprèsand devant / derrière11. The preposition àand localization | |
| The formal properties of the preposition à11.2. The prepositions àand localization | |
| The preposition àand integrated landmarks | |
| Conclusions | |
| The prepositions sur / sousand the bearer / burden relation | |
| Characteristics of the prepositions sur / sous12.2. The bearer / burden relation and the impetus of the prepositions sur / sous12.3. The development of sousbased on its impetus | |
| Comparison of the prepositions àand sur,12.5. Comparison of the prepositions contreand sur | |
| The relation between the prepositions derrièreand sous13. The prepositions dans / horsdeand the container / contained relation | |
| Topological relations between the objects of the prepositions dans / hors de13.2. Total inclusion and partial inclusion | |
| The expression hors deand movement | |
| The container / contained relation | |
| A comparison of the prepositions dans, sur, and sous | |
| The expressions en dedans / en dehors | |
| Conclusions | |
| Notes | |
| Reference | |
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