37.3208, FYI: Online Workshop: Prepositions in Thought and Language

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Subject: 37.3208, FYI: Online Workshop: Prepositions in Thought and Language

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Date: 05-Oct-2026
From: Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group [tclrg.auth at gmail.com]
Subject: Online Workshop: Prepositions in Thought and Language

We would like to draw your attention to the online workshop
Prepositions in Thought and Language to be held on 10-11 October. The
workshop brings together researchers from around the world whose work
explores the pervasive role of prepositions in a variety of
communicative situations.
All sessions will be streamed online for the public. Colleagues
wishing to attend the workshop sessions are kindly asked to send an
email to Evangelos Tsigaridas (tsigevan at lit.auth.gr) or Pantazis
Stougianas (pstougi at auth.gr) in order to receive the Zoom link.
You will find the complete programme below. We look forward to having
you with us!
The Organizers,
Evangelos Tsigaridas & Pantazis Stougianas
Prepositions in Thought and Language
Online Workshop
10–11 October 2026
Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group
Programme
Saturday 10 October 2026 (14:00–18:05)
14:00 Greetings – Angeliki Athanasiadou (Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki)
Session A (14:10–15:30)
14:10 Xiaoben Yuan (Akita University)
The Japanese Case Particle e in Children’s Multimodal Metaphors of
Taxation
14:25 Ulisses Tadeu Vaz de Oliveira (Federal University of Mato Grosso
do Sul)
Prepositions as Cognitive Organizers in English and Portuguese Nominal
Groups: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
14:40 Ishant Yenamandra (Liberal Arts & Science Academy)
The use of prepositions to shift responsibility of non-transmission in
Texas German
14:55 Keith Tse, Francesco-Alessio Ursini (Ronin Institute for
Independent Scholarship (RIIS) 2.0, Central China Normal University)
Formation of Differential Object Marking (DOM): Argument/Event
Structure and Categorial Parameters
15:10 Discussion
Session B (15:30–16:35)
15:30 Veronica Yesenia Ancco Almonte (Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro)
Causatives and directionals in emotion metaphors in Aymara
15:45 Monica Rajguru (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar)
The Postposition -re in Odia: A Cognitive Model Cluster Analysis of
Its Semantic Extensions
16:00 Katarzyna Makocka-Wojsiat (University of Białystok)
>From Prepositions to Metaphor: Spatial Relations as Minimal Models of
Experience
16:15 Discussion
16:35 Break
Session C (17:00–18:05)
17:00 Ivana Matas Ivanković (Institute for the Croatian Language)
Semantic Classification of Nouns in the Description of Croatian
Prepositions
17:15 Robert Sviben, Ivana Matas Ivanković (Institute for the Croatian
Language)
Meaning Construction in Croatian P1+N+P2 Complex Prepositions
17:30 Maather Al-Rawi, Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (King Abdulaziz
University, Mohammed V University)
Prepositional Allosemy as compositional: Evidence from Arabic
17:45 Discussion
End of Day 1
Sunday 11 October 2026 (15:00–18:20)
Session D (15:00–16:20)
15:00 Inesa Šeškauskienė, Egle Žilinskaite-Šinkuniene (Vilnius
University)
Force dynamics in Baltic: the Latvian pret compared to the Lithuanian
prieš (‘in front of, against’)
15:15 Ieva Stasiūnaitė (Vilnius University)
On the Meaning of the Lithuanian PO ‘under’
15:30 Erica Pinelli (University of Pavia)
The role of prepositions in NPN semi-schematic phraseologisms in
Russian
15:45 Martina Irsara (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
What happens to through in translation? Reconstructing narrative space
across languages
16:00 Discussion
16:20 Break
Session E (17:00–18:20)
17:00 Lacey Okonski, Marlene Johansson-Falck, Ljiljana Saric
(University of Oslo, Umeå University, University of Oslo)
An Embodied Scenes approach to building and testing five preposition
profiles
17:15 Eva Zehentner (University of Zurich)
English prepositional verbs do not exist as a category (but some
verb-preposition combinations became more entrenched over time)
17:30 Pantazis Stougianas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
The semantic network of the Ancient Greek prefix ἀπο-
17:45 Maya Baćić Ćosić (University of Belgrade)
Spatial construals of temporal duration in Modern Greek language:
prepositional adverbial phrases
18:00 Discussion
18:20 Closing Remarks

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics

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