Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different languages construe such events in the same way when describing them? This volume investigates placement and rem
1. Contributors, pix-x; 2. Preface (by Levinson, Stephen C.), pxi-xvi; 3. Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective (by Narasimhan, Bhuvana), p1-18; 4. Part I. Lexical semantics; 5. The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in