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This volume presents new research by the Topoi group "The Conception of Spaces in Language" on the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume discuss static and dynamic aspects of the spatial grammars of Ancient to Medieval Greek, Akkadian, Hittite, and Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian, as well as field data on eight modern languages (Arabic, Hebrew, English, German, Russian, French, Italian, and Spanish). Among the grams discussed are spatial particles, motion verbs, case and, most prominently, spatial prepositions. All ancient language data are fully explained in linguistic word-by-word glosses and are therefore accessible to scholars who are not themselves experts on the respective languages. Taken together, these contributions extend the scope of research on spatial grammar back to the third millennium BCE.

Space and time in language --- Languages, Modern --- Language and languages --- Spatial behavior --- Cognitive grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- History --- Grammar, Historical --- Grammars --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Languages, Foreign --- Languages, Living --- Living languages --- Modern languages --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Cognitive linguistics --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Thought and thinking --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Space and time --- Spatial behavior. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Psycholinguistics. --- History. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Linguistics of space. --- adpositions. --- case. --- motion verbs.