Meet the Members of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS (PID2024-161338OB-I00) Today we are thrilled to introduce Prof. Dr. Fabio Mollica, CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS member and Professor at the University of Milan (Italy). More about Prof. Mollica's research activity: www.unimi.it/it/ugov/pers...

We celebrate the academic collaboration of Prof. Dr. Inga Hennecke at the University of Valencia, an event organized by another member of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS, Prof. Dr. Maricel Esteban Fonollosa (University of Valencia). 👉 Learn more about the event: shorturl.at/waqXa.

Meet the Members of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS (PID2024-161338OB-I00) Today we are delighted to introduce Prof. Dr. Inga Hennecke, CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS member and Professor at the University of Tübingen (Germany). More about Prof. Hennecke's research activity: shorturl.at/DBw3p

What are the goals of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS? Find out more in our website: shorturl.at/mmhxO

Meet the Members of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS (PID2024-161338OB-I00) We are delighted to present Prof. Dr. Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij, member of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS team.

We are pleased to share highlights from our team’s participation at CReating 2025 - CReativity and CRitical Thinking in Translation and InterpretING, held in Universitat d’Alacant from 16 to 17 October 2025! Find the programme of the Conference and the abstracts: shorturl.at/GCnio.

How to analyse constructional idioms across languages? To address this challenge, a key methodological component of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS is its unilateral contrastive method. Have a look at the work of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS members to find out more about it: 👉 Link to the PDF: shorturl.at/7H80R.

Today we are delighted to introduce Clara Ureña Tormo, Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) and member of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS. Visit Clara Ureña Tormo profile: frasespal.com/miembros/cla...

To close the week, we would like to spotlight a key publication 'Constructions in Spanish' in the field of Construction Grammar and Spanish, edited by Prof. Dr. Inga Hennecke (Universität Tübingen) and Prof. Dr. Evelyin Wiesinger (Universität Regensburg), CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS members: lnkd.in/eXMpk_SY

New publication out! Mellado Blanco, C., Ivorra Ordines, P. (2025). Pasito a pasito, Schrittchen für Schrittchen : The platform CONSTRIDIOMS as a tool to learn constructional idioms in Spanish and German shorturl.at/6lc7A Visit in CONSTRIDIOMS: shorturl.at/nARND

🗣️ New Book Review! We are excited to share the recently published book review by Prof. Dr. Pedro Ivorra Ordines (2026), CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS member. Congratulations! 👏 Link to the review: shorturl.at/Zj7GS

Meet the Members of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS Today, we are thrilled to introduce Ana Mansilla Pérez, Associate Professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the Universidad de Murcia (Spain) and member of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS. On Ana Mansilla Pérez's research: frasespal.com/miembros/ana...

🗣️ New publication out! Can creativity emerge not from words themselves, but from constructional idioms? Congrats to the authors Prof. Dr. Carmen Mellado Blanco and Prof. Dr. Pedro Ivorra Ordines, CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS members 👉Read the article here: shorturl.at/PF1IL

How can the concept of constructional idioms be effectively employed in language teaching? The recent monograph by Clara Ureña Tormo, Professor at the UPV and member of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS, is already becoming a key reference in Language Pedagogy!

Today we introduce Pedro Ivorra Ordines, member of CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS and Lecturer at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza, Spain). 👇Find more information below

👀 How are recent advances reshaping Construction Grammar? This Special Issue brings together leading international scholars to present cutting-edge research on constructional idioms, semantic–pragmatic interfaces, and constructional borrowing. #CognitiveLinguistics #CREACONSTRIDIOMS

We are pleased to introduce Nely Milagros Iglesias Iglesias, Professor at the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) Her work contributes significantly to German Studies, with particular expertise in phraseology and contrastive linguistics. #CREACONSTRIDIOMS #GermanStudies Further information below⬇️

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

🔎 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!

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

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

📖 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

🔎 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...

CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS @creaconstridiom · 1m 🔎 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!

🔍 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

📃 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]

🌐 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.

📘 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...

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!

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!