37.3044, Theme Session at ICLC 2027 - Cognitive Grammar beyond the Foundations: Recent Developments and New Directions

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Date: 22-Sep-2026
From: Yuki-Shige Tamura [yukitamurashige at gmail.com]
Subject: Theme Session at ICLC 2027 - Cognitive Grammar beyond the Foundations: Recent Developments and New Directions


Theme Session at ICLC 2027 - Cognitive Grammar beyond the Foundations:
Recent Developments and New Directions
Short Title: ICLC 2027
Theme: Cognitive Grammar beyond the Foundations: Recent Developments
and New Directions

Location: Online

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 08-Oct-2026

We are preparing a proposal for a theme session at the 18th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2027) in Germany
and are seeking contributions from researchers interested in Ronald W.
Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar (CG).
Since the publication of Foundations of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker
1987, 1991), Cognitive Grammar has served as one of the foundational
theoretical frameworks of Cognitive Linguistics. Much discussion of
CG, however, continues to center on the theoretical architecture
established in these foundational works. Over the subsequent decades,
Langacker has continued to develop and refine the framework, extending
its scope and introducing new perspectives on linguistic structure,
conceptualization, processing, and discourse.
One important development in Langacker’s more recent work is a more
dynamic view of linguistic structure. In the access-and-activation
model (e.g. Langacker 2012b, 2016, 2020a, 2020b), linguistic
structures are understood in relation to the serial access and
activation of portions of a broader conceptual substrate. This
perspective provides a basis for integrating linguistic structure with
processing and discourse and for examining linguistic organization at
different levels and scales. Furthermore, Langacker’s later work
develops a number of related notions and themes within Cognitive
Grammar, including the control cycle, baseline and elaboration, and
the relation between seriality and hierarchy, offering new ways of
understanding and analyzing linguistic phenomena. These developments
provide an opportunity to reconsider the current scope and potential
of CG within Cognitive Linguistics.
The aim of this theme session is therefore not simply to apply
established CG concepts to new linguistic data, but to reconsider
Cognitive Grammar itself as an evolving foundational framework for
Cognitive Linguistics. We hope to bring together research that engages
both with the continuing theoretical development of CG and with
empirical phenomena that may contribute to its further development.
We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions from a broad range
of areas, including phonology and prosody, morphology, syntax,
semantics, discourse, and language processing, as well as
cross-linguistic, corpus-based, experimental, and other approaches.
Contributions may address recent developments in CG, reconsider
established CG concepts in light of later work, extend the framework
to less extensively explored areas of linguistic organization, or
examine how empirical findings may motivate further theoretical
development.
We welcome expressions of interest from researchers who would like to
contribute to the proposed theme session. Researchers interested in
participating are invited to send the following:
 - Name and affiliation
 - Tentative title of the presentation
 - Abstract of approximately 100 words
Please send the above information to yukitamurashige at gmail.com by
October 8, 2026.
The theme session proposal will be submitted to the ICLC organizers by
October 15, 2026. The proposed theme session will consist of 6–10
papers, in accordance with the ICLC guidelines. If the theme session
is accepted, individual contributors will subsequently submit their
full abstracts for anonymous peer review in the general submission
round.
References:
Langacker, Ronald W. (1987). Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Vol. I:
Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Langacker, Ronald W. (1991). Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Vol.
II: Descriptive Application. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Langacker, Ronald W. (2008). Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Langacker, Ronald W. (2012a). “Elliptic Coordination.” Cognitive
Linguistics 23: 555–599.
Langacker, Ronald W. (2012b). “Interactive Cognition: Toward a Unified
Account of Structure, Processing, and Discourse.” International
Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 3(2): 95–125.
Langacker, Ronald W. (2016). “Toward an Integrated View of Structure,
Processing, and Discourse.” In Grzegorz Drożdż (ed.), Studies in
Lexicogrammar: Theory and Applications, 23–53. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.
Langacker, Ronald W. 2020a. Nested Locatives: Conceptual Basis and
Theoretical Import. In Wander Lowie, et al. (eds.), Usage-Based
Dynamics in Second Language Development, 207-223. Bristol, UK:
Multilingual Matters. Second Language Acquisition 141.



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