Dates: January 26-27, 2019 Venue: NINJAL Organizer: Yo MATSUMOTO (NINJAL) The language of the conference: English. Registration: Please register here. [Privacy policy] Overview: How languages describe spatial motion events has been intensively studied in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology, motivated to test the hypothesis in which languages can be categorized in terms of how Path of motion is expressed (Talmy 1990, 2000). However, languages in fact exhibit much more variations. In addition, the descriptions of motion event must consider different types of Path and Deixis, with the latter playing an important role in characterizing motion event descriptions in some languages like Japanese. Invited speakers Jürgen BOHNEMEYER (State University of New