About the conference
The 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC17) was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from July 14 to 18, 2025.
Organized by the Argentine Association of Cognitive Linguistics (AALiCo), ICLC17 brought together researchers and scholars from around the world to exchange ideas and present current research in cognitive linguistics.
Under the special theme “Culture, Discourse and Cognition,” the conference offered five days of plenary lectures, theme sessions, general sessions, poster presentations and opportunities for academic exchange.
ICLC17 also marked the first edition of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference to be held in Latin America.
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conference days July 14–18, 2025
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confirmed plenary speakers
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thematic sessions developed at ICLC17
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ICLC held in Latin America
Conference materials
Programme & documents
Explore the main academic materials from ICLC17, including the complete conference programme, the Book of Abstracts, the Code of Conduct and documents related to the conference calls and important dates.
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Full Programme
The complete five-day programme of ICLC17, including plenary lectures, theme sessions, general sessions, poster presentations and scheduled activities.
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Book of Abstracts
The official Book of Abstracts of ICLC17, bringing together the contributions presented during the conference.
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Code of Conduct
The principles and guidelines established to promote a professional, inclusive and respectful environment for all ICLC17 participants.
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Call & Dates
The Calls for Papers, submission deadlines and key dates published during the organization of ICLC17.
Academic programme
Plenary Speakers
ICLC17 featured four plenary speakers whose work represents different areas and perspectives within cognitive linguistics and related fields.
Their lectures formed a central part of the academic programme and contributed to the exchange of ideas that shaped the conference.
Concepción Company Company is Emeritus Professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (emeritus at UNAM does not mean retired, it is the maximum academic degree). She is numerary member of Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, and member of El Colegio Nacional.
Her research themes are Historical Syntax, Theory of Grammatical Change, Philology, and Corpus Linguistics. She is author of 9 books, editor of 29, and more than 100 articles and/or chapters in books. She has been invited as plenary speaker in 45 international conferences.
She has been invited professor in Germany, Argentina, Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, USA, Italy, England, Israel, Portugal and Uruguay.
She is the director and co-author of Sintaxis histórica de la lengua Española, 10 volumes, 2006 (Part I) 2009 (Part II), 2104 (Part III), in press (Part IV), printed by Fondo de Cultura Económica and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, which is the first historical syntax of Spanish
and the first of any Romance language. She is co-director of Corpus Diacrónico y Diatópico del Español de América (CORDIAM), open access, www.cordiam.org.
Her research themes are Historical Syntax, Theory of Grammatical Change, Philology, and Corpus Linguistics. She is author of 9 books, editor of 29, and more than 100 articles and/or chapters in books. She has been invited as plenary speaker in 45 international conferences.
She has been invited professor in Germany, Argentina, Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, USA, Italy, England, Israel, Portugal and Uruguay.
She is the director and co-author of Sintaxis histórica de la lengua Española, 10 volumes, 2006 (Part I) 2009 (Part II), 2104 (Part III), in press (Part IV), printed by Fondo de Cultura Económica and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, which is the first historical syntax of Spanish
and the first of any Romance language. She is co-director of Corpus Diacrónico y Diatópico del Español de América (CORDIAM), open access, www.cordiam.org.
Alice Gaby is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Monash University, Australia, and Australian Research Council Industry Fellow at Living Languages. Her research interests include: semantic and structural typology; the relationship between language, culture and cognition; grammatical description; and language reclamation. Her analysis of grammatical structures proceeds from the understanding that they are embedded within a larger communicative system, encompassing multiple languages, registers and modalities. Alice is a non-Indigenous linguist who has collaborated with speakers of Kuuk Thaayorre and other Paman languages since 2002, and has supported language reclamation efforts in various communities around Australia.
Maarten Lemmens is professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Lille, France. He obtained a PhD in English linguistics at the KU Leuven, Belgium (1995) and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) at the University of Lille, France (2005). His domains of expertise are usage-based linguistics, cognitive (lexical) semantics, and multimodality. He has worked mainly on constructional alternations in English, posture verbs in Dutch and English), Odia light verb constructions (in collaboration with K. Sahoo), and language and gender. He is currently co-coordinator (with G. Caliendo) of the research project PERINAT on the linguistic expression of perinatal loss (https://perinat.univ-lille.fr/). He has published two monographs (1998, 2021) and more than 30 peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of topics. Maarten Lemmens is the founder and first president of the Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive (AFLiCo; www.aflico.fr) and the former president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (2013-2017; www.cogling.org). He is also a certified cabinet maker and enjoys badminton, running, gardening and singing.
I have a BA and an MA degree in Linguistics from the University of São Paulo. My PhD was pursued at the State University of Campinas with an internship period at the University of New Mexico, under the supervision of Dr. Sherman Wilcox. Currently I am an adjunct professor at the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) Department at the Federal University of Paraná. For my MA and PhD, I carried out research on the phonetics and phonology of Libras. Since then, however, my research has comprehended a variety of other aspects of Libras grammar, namely, morphology, lexicon, semantics and discourse and has been developed with colleagues from universities from different countries. More recently, in collaboration with Dr. Sherman Wilcox, I started analyzing digital lists that co-occur with spoken lists in Brazilian Portuguese and comparing them with Libras digital list constructions.
Programme
Theme Sessions
Eight theme sessions were held during ICLC17, bringing together researchers around specific topics and emerging lines of inquiry within cognitive linguistics.
Advances in Conceptual Blending Theory: Past and Future
Convenors: Jamin Pelkey, Ľudmila Lacková Bennett and Mark Turner
Extravagance and Creativity through the Empirical Lens
Convenors: Stefan Hartmann and Tobías Ungerer
Stance-taking and Gesture
Convenors: Maíra Avelar, Alan Cienki and Olga Iriskhanova
Cognitive Insights, Pedagogical Shifts: Rethinking Language Teaching
Convenors: Helen Zhao and Kyoko Masuda
Intersubjectivity in Grammar, Discourse and Cognition
Convenors: Augusto Soares da Silva and Diogo Pinheiro
Language as Human Behavior: The Legacy of William Diver and Érica García
Convenors: Ludmila Novotny, Lucía Zanfardini, Ilia Afanasev and Daan van Soeren
Studies on the Río de la Plata Spanish from a Cognitive Linguistics Approach
Convenors: Adriana Collado, Patricia C. Hernández and María Soledad Funes
Compositionality in Cognitive Constructional Perspective
Convenors: Corrine Occhino, Terry Janzen, Daz Saunders, Sally Rice, Jalon Begay and Cornelia Müller
People
Committees
ICLC17 was made possible through the work and commitment of its Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee and collaborators.
Their academic expertise and organizational efforts contributed to the development of the conference programme and to welcoming the international cognitive linguistics community to Buenos Aires.
Organizing Committee
- Claudia Borzi — Chair
- Adriana Collado
- Cynthia P. Audisio
- Vanina Barbeito
- María Soledad Funes
- María Celeste Galay
- Sofía Gutiérrez Böhmer
- Patricia C. Hernández
- Gisela E. Müller
Scientific Committee
- Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
- Yusuke Minami, Kobe University
- Mar Garachana Camarero, Barcelona University
- Piia Taremaa, University of Tartu
- Beate Hampe, University of Erfurt
- Adriana Collado, National University of San Juan, Argentina
- Maria Josep Cuenca, University of Valencia, Spain
- Javier Valenzuela, University of Murcia
- Guro Nore Fløgstad, University of Oslo and University of South- Eastern Norway
- Sabine De Knop, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles
- Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba
- Patricia C. Hernández, University of Buenos Aires and Universities of Orleans and Rouen
- Seongha Rhee, Mahidol University, Thailand and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
- Pedro L. Luchini, National University of Mar del Plata
- Shu-Ling Wu, Southern Illinois University
- Arie Verhagen, Leiden University
- Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark
- Gisela E. Müller, National University of Cuyo, Argentina
- Angela Schrott, University of Kassel, Germany
- Denis Creissels, French National Centre for Scientific Research and Université Lumière (Lyon 2)
- Mirjam Fried, Charles University
- Tomoko Endo, The University of Tokyo
- Kevin Moore, San José State University, U.S.A.
- Rocío Anabel Martínez, University of Buenos Aires and National Council for Scientific and Technical Research
- Herbert Colston, University of Alberta
- Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico
- Cristiano Broccias, University of Genoa
- Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
- Vanina A. Barbeito, University of Buenos Aires
- Esther Pascual, Shanghai International Studies University, China
- Michael Barlow, University of Auckland
- Ilona Tragel, University of Tartu
- Sandra L. Halverson, University of Agder
- Ad Foolen, Radboud University
- Carlos Henderson, Lund University
- María Soledad Funes, University of Buenos Aires and National Council for Scientific and Technical Research
- Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
- Stefan Th. Gries, University of California Santa Barbara and Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
- Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
- Tiago Torrent, Federal University of Juiz de Fora
- Augusto Soares da Silva, Portuguese Catholic University
- Scott Schwenter, The Ohio State University
- Mila Vulchanova, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Martin Hilpert, University of Neuchâtel
- Laura A.L Janda, The Arctic University of Norway
- Christopher Hart, Lancaster University
- Tobias Ungerer, University of Toronto
- Doris Schönefeld, University of Leipzig
- Fuyin Thomas Li, Beihang University
- Francisco Gonzálvez-García, University of Almería, Spain
- Iraide Ibarretxe – Antuñano, University of Zaragoza
- Laura Colantoni, University of Toronto
- Jóhanna Barðdal, Ghent University
- Angeliki Athanasiadou, School of English Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Hirotoshi Yagihashi, Kyorin University
- Hubert Cuyckens, Catholic University of Louvain
- Masuhiro Nomura, Hokkaido University
- Helle Metslang, University of Tartu
- Diana Bravo, Stockholm University
- Nancy Stern, The City College of New York
- Yo Matsumoto, National Institute for Japanese Languages and Linguistics
- Foong Ha Yap, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
- Élodie Blestel, Sorbonne Nouvelle University
- Michael Pleyer, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
- Maarten Lemmens, University of Lille
- Takashi Hashimoto, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – School of Knowledge Science
- Simon Devylder, The Arctic University of Norway
- Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Ricardo Maldonado, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Xu Wen, Southwest University, China
- Fabiana Álvarez-Ejzenberg, Picardie Jules Verne University
- Heng Li, Sichuan International Studies University, China.
- Kim Ebensgaard Jensen, University of Copenhagen
- Nina Böbel, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Damian Blasi, ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University
- Dominic Schmitz, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Eva Zehentner, University of Zurich
- Peter Petré, University of Antwerp
- Katja Politt, Bielefeld University
- Sören Stumpf, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Lieven Vandelanotte, Namur University and Catholic University of Louvain
- Salvio Martín Menéndez, University of Buenos Aires, University of Mar del Plata and National Council for Scientific and Technical Research
- Nikolas Koch, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Steffen Höder, Kiel University
- Jens Fleischhauer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Tanja Mortelmans, University of Antewerp
- Kyoko Ohara, Keio University
- Javier Caro Reina, University of Cologne
- Elena Smirnova, University of Neuchâtel
- Sven Leuckert, Technische Universität Dresden
- Thomas Poulton, Monash University
- Alexander Bergs, Osnabrück University
- Adam Schembri, University of Birmingham
- Susanne Niemeier, Koblenz University, Germany
- Alexandra Bagasheva, Sofia University
- Rachel Hatchard, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Corrine Occhino, University of Texas at Austin
- Freek Van de Velde, Catholic University of Louvain
- Laura Ruth-Hirrel, California State University, Northridge, USA
- Thomas Herbst, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Nürnberg
- David Tizón-Couto, University of Vigo
- Silva Ladewig, Georg-August University Göttingen
- Arne Lohmann, University of Leipzig
- Simon Kasper, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Tyler Marghetis, University of California Merced
- Theresa Matzinger, University of Vienna
- Gitte Kristiansen, Complutense University of Madrid
- Thomas Hoffmann, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- Elise Stickles, University of British Columbia
- Antonio Barcelona, Córdoba University, Spain
- Cristina Messineo, University of Buenos Aires and National Council for Scientific and Technical Research
- Ulrike Schneider, University of Mainz and University of Augsburg
- Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham
- Judith Huber, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
- Nina Julich-Warpakowski, University of Erfurt and Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
- Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh
- Anja Binanzer, Technical University Dresden
- Alan Cienki, Vrije University Amsterdam
- Véronique Boulenger, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Lyon
- Hans Jörg Schmid, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Collaborators & acknowledgements
- Lucía Bernardi
- María de las Mercedes Luciani
- Rocío Martínez
- Enrique Menéndez
- Silvina Peri
- Javier Rodríguez Ramacciotti
- Cecilia Romero
- Mónica Trípodi
- Malena Trotta
- Sofía Blasco López
- Estefanía Echenique
- Camila Sotano Pedacreda
- Estefanía Preiti
- Ludmila Widmann
- As well as the runners Azul Romera, Camila Bonamo, and Geraldine Acevedo Ruiz.
Buenos Aires
Venue
ICLC17 took place at the Regente Palace Hotel, located in the heart of Buenos Aires.
The venue hosted the plenary lectures, academic sessions and other activities of the conference throughout the five-day programme.
Conference venue
Regente Palace Hotel
Suipacha 964
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires · Argentina
Participants were also offered accommodation options at the conference venue and at nearby hotels. The original accommodation information is preserved in the Historical Archive below.
Buenos Aires
Host city of the 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference.
Buenos Aires welcomed the international cognitive linguistics community for five days of academic exchange, discussion and collaboration.
Highlights
Conference Gallery
A photographic record of ICLC17 and the people, sessions and moments that marked five days of academic exchange in Buenos Aires.
Explore the gallery by conference day.
2024–2025 material
Historical Archive
This archive preserves the information and materials originally published during the organization of ICLC17.
It includes Calls for Papers, important dates, registration information, accommodation options, events, practical information and the original conference contact details.
Archive notice: The information contained in this section refers to the organization of ICLC17 in 2024 and 2025 and is preserved for historical and documentary purposes. Deadlines, fees, contact details and booking information are no longer current.
Calls for Papers & Important Dates
The three Calls for Papers published for ICLC17, together with abstract submission deadlines, notification dates and other key milestones in the organization of the conference.
Registration & Fees
The registration categories, conference fees, eligibility conditions and payment information originally published for ICLC17 participants.
This information is preserved as part of the conference archive and is no longer valid for registration or payment purposes.
Accommodation
Information originally provided to participants regarding the Regente Palace Hotel and nearby accommodation options during ICLC17.
Rates, reservation deadlines and booking conditions correspond to the 2025 conference period and are preserved for historical reference only.
Events
Information about activities held alongside the academic programme, including the Friendship Dinner and the “How to Publish” session for young researchers and advanced students.
Practical Information
Travel and practical information originally prepared for international participants visiting Argentina and Buenos Aires, including transportation, currency, electricity, climate and other useful information.
Conference Contact Archive
The original contact information used by the ICLC17 Organizing Committee during the preparation and development of the conference.
For current enquiries, please use the contact information available on the AALiCo website.
Sponsors
ICLC17 gratefully acknowledges the institutions and organizations whose support contributed to the realization of the conference.
Endorsements
We also acknowledge the academic institutions and organizations that endorsed and supported the 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference.
