Theme Session Proposals


The following five theme sessions have been approved by the ICLC 11, Xi'an Theme Session Proposal Review Panel.

1.  Application and Refinement of Langacker's Cognitive Gramma
     Organizer: Niu Baoyi (niubaoyi@126.com)

     Chinese   
     Organizers: Shu Dingfang (shudfk@yahoo.com)
                       Liu Zhengguang (bwzgliu@126.com

3.  Language Evolution: Biological, Cultural and Bio-Cultural
     Organizers: Arie Verhagen (Arie.Verhagen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
                       Jordan Zlatev (Jordan.Zlatev@ling.lu.se)

4.  Typology of motion descriptions in broader perspectives: Going beyond motion to caused motion and vision
     Organizers: Yo Matsumoto (yomatsum@lit.kobe-u.ac.jp
                       Kazuhiro Kawachi (kazuhirokawachi@gmail.com)

5.  Spatial Cognition in Talmy's Cognitive Semantics
     Organizer: Thomas Li (thomasli@buaa.edu.cn)