Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Complex adpositions and complex nominal relators -- Indo-European language families & isolates -- 1 Complex adpositions in Romance: Emergence and variation -- 2 Complex adpositions in three West Germanic Languages: German, Dutch, and English -- 3 Complex adpositions in Slavic languages: The case of Serbian -- 4 Complex prepositions in Breton -- 5 On complex adpositions in Modern Greek -- 6 Complex prepositions in Albanian: A first assessment -- Non Indo-European languages -- 7 What makes a complex postposition: The cyclic development of postpositions in Estonian -- 8 Complex and simple postpositions: The split in Permic -- 9 Case marking and complex adpositions in Basque -- 10 Structure and origin of Turkish adpositions -- 11 A chapter on compound prepositions in Maltese: prep-prep combinations and related issues -- Discussion -- 12 Complex adpositions in Europe and beyond: A synthesis -- Index -- Language Index