What aspects of spatial relations influence speakers' choice of locative? This article presents
a study of static spatial descriptions from 24 languages. The study reveals two kinds of …

In this article, I revisit Landau and Jackendoff's () paper,“What and where in spatial language
and spatial cognition,” proposing a friendly amendment and reformulation. The original …

Does language influence recognition for spatial scenes? In Experiments 1 and 2,
participants viewed ambiguous pictures, with or without spatial sentences. In a yes—no …

Reference to space, especially with prepositions, plays a central role in natural language
and is receiving more and more attention over the past decades. One line of research uses …

Abstract [eng] The paper deals with the spatial relations of containment and support in the
Baltic languages in a geometric framework. The geometric framework in our research is …

Prepositions name spatial relationships (eg, book on a table). But they are also used to
convey abstract, non‐spatial relationships (eg, Adrian is on a roll)—raising the question of …

In this paper we analyse the issue of reference using spatial language and examine how the
polysemy exhibited by spatial prepositions can be incorporated into semantic models for …

Prepositions such as in and on convey not only spatial relationships between objects, but
also abstract relationships, such as 'Mary is in love'and 'Tim's on a roll'. Although such uses …

What do people attend to when describing the locations of objects in space? This paper
describes a study of the ways in which speakers of seventeen languages describe static …

This book presents a typological overview of the case system of Eastern Indo-Aryan (EIA)
languages. It utilizes a cognitive framework to analyse and compare the case markers of …