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What’s the role of prepositions in Spanish constructions?

In Oct 2025, the Uni. of Santiago de Compostela hosted the Workshop “The Dynamics of Prepositions and Prepositional Constructions in Spanish,” welcoming academic experts in the field.

👇 Find the Workshop programme below
February 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
🔎 Meet our research member: Amparo García Cabello de Alba
Amparo is FPU-funded predoctoral researcher and PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Cádiz . Her research combines psycholinguistics, and Construction Grammar, with a focus on somatic phraseological units!
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Have you visited constridioms.es?
CONSTRIDIOMS is a unique repository of German constructional idioms and their Spanish counterparts, developed within the research project CONSTRIDIOMS (FFI2019-108783RB-100), led by Prof. Dr. Carmen Mellado Blanco.
👉 constridioms.es
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Meet our research member: Maricel Esteban Fonollosa, Assistant Professor in German Philology at the University of Valencia. Her research explores phraseology and Construction Grammar, with corpus-based and contrastive approaches to German, Spanish & English.
👉 More about her work: shorturl.at/q719P
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
📖 New publication!

How can we use proverbs creatively?
Today, we are delighted to announce the publication our member Pedro Ivorra Ordines (2025), titled “Dime con quién te juntas y te diré quién eres: Substantive Idioms from Construction Grammar.”

🔎 You can access it on: rb.gy/99gpm4
Dime con quién te juntas y te diré quién eres: Substantive Idioms from Construction Grammar
One of the hot topics in constructionist approaches is which traits are to be considered essential to posit a construction, as can be attested in the wide range of definitions that have been put forwa...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:25 PM
🔎 How do we compare constructional idioms across languages?

A new publication by Nely Milagros Iglesias Iglesias & Belén López Meirama (2024) offers a corpus-based contrastive analysis of hyperbolic expressions in German and Spanish.

Check it out on👇
turia.uv.es/index.php/qf...
La expresión hiperbólica de las sensaciones en español y alemán: análisis de las construcciones fraseológicas [morir(se) de (ART) S-sing{sensación}] y [vor N-Sg{Gefühlsempfindung} sterben] ...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS
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🔎 Meet the members of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS (PID2024-161338OB-I00).

Today, we’re pleased to introduce Caterina Chinellato, a member of the CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS research group.

✅Follow us to discover more about us!
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
🔍 New Publication! Discover groundbreaking research on how emotions are expressed across languages (Spanish-German) using corpora and Construction Grammar.
A must-read for linguists & language lovers!
shorturl.at/LmwFj
More updates coming
#CognitiveLinguistics #Phraseology
La fraseología contrastiva alemán-español de las emociones: un estudio de corpus desde la Gramática de Construcciones
El presente artículo tiene como objeto poner de manifiesto la utilidad de los corpus, tanto monolingües como paralelos, para la investigación de la fraseología contrastiva en el campo semántico de las...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
📃 New!

How can the dialogue between Construction Grammar and Language Pedagogy be pushed one step further?

Take a look at this new study of Carmen Mellado Blanco and Pedro Ivorra Ordines (2025) [shorturl.at/xFyeR] and explore CONSTRIDIOMS [https://constridioms.es]
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 PM
🌐 Meet Carmen Mellado Blanco, Full Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and PI of our project. She is a leading expert in phraseology under the lens of Construction Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics, with a strong focus on German-Spanish contrastive studies.
January 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM
📘 New publication!

New volume on interculturality & multilingualism in German Studies, featuring our team member Ana Mansilla Pérez (Univ. of Murcia).

Mansilla Perez, A., Strohschen, C. (2026), Peter Lang.
👉 www.peterlang.com/document/157...
Peter Lang Verlag - Formen der Interkulturalität und Mehrsprachigkeit im Kontext der Germanistik
In einer globalisierten Welt sind Interkulturalität und Mehrsprachigkeit zentrale Themen in Bildung, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Dieser Sammelband ...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Excited to share Mellado Blanco’s new article on the Spanish intensifying consecutive construction [ESTAR que Xcláusula]. A corpus-based study revealing interactions along the lexicon-grammar continuum.
🔗 revistas.um.es/estudiosroma...
Follow for CREA CONSTRIDIOMS new publications every Wed & Thu!
Estoy que fumo en pipa. Atracción fatal entre expresiones metafóricas y la construcción consecutiva [ESTAR que Xcláusula] | Estudios Románicos
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January 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
WELCOME CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS 🎉

🗓 2025–2029

We are thrilled to announce CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS, a research project that explores creativity through the lens of Construction Grammar (cf. Hoffmann 2018, 2020; Bergs 2018, among others).

👉 Learn more about CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS and follow us!
January 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM