Iryna Fokashchuk

About Me

I am a PhD researcher at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Research Nürnberg, member of the Training Group on Dimensions of Constructional Space. My research focuses on governed spatial prepositions in four languages: English, German, Polish, and Ukrainian. The aim is to identify patterns in the cross-linguistic constructions of these prepositions, exploring similarities and differences, and examining the semantic networks formed by these prepositions. I am interested in investigating whether there are similarities across languages in terms of semantic networks, and exploring the possible reasons for such similarities (project 9).

 

Conferences

• Exploring cross-linguistic prepositional patterns: A cognitive linguistic study of prepositions governed by nouns in German, and their equivalents in English, Polish, and Ukrainian. 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Osnabrück, Germany, 4-6 September 2024 (presentation).
• Contrastive Analysis of Prepositional Usage in German, English, Polish, and Ukrainian: A Corpus and Dictionary-Based Approach. The 45th ICAME. Vigo, Spain, 18-22 June 2024 (presentation).
• From Spatial to Abstract: A Cross-Linguistic Examination of German Prepositions and their Equivalents. Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy (CALP4). Erlangen, Germany, 18-20 March 2024 (presentation).
• Corresponding constructions of German Nouns with Governed Prepositions auf, and, an in English, Polish, and Ukrainian. Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern (FJUEL) 2023. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 29-30 September 2023 (presentation).
• Comparative Analysis of Nouns Governing ‘On’: Examining NP1+P+NP2 Patterns in German, English, Polish, and Ukrainian. Grenoble Winter School in Cognitive Linguistics. Autrans, France, 13-16 March 2023 (presentation).