Dejan Stosic

Dejan Stosic is a Professor in the Department of Language Sciences at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, where he has been employed since 2003, first as Lecturer (2013-2022) and currently as University Professor (since 2022). He is a member of the CLLE Laboratory (Cognition, Languages, Language, Ergonomie), a joint research unit (UMR 5263) of the CNRS. His academic career spans multiple institutions, including previous positions at the University of Artois.

Stosic's research focuses at the interface of semantics and syntax, with specializations in spatial semantics, prepositional semantics, expression of manner, nominal semantics, and lexical/grammatical polysemy. His work primarily examines French, with significant comparative components involving Serbian and English. Methodologically, he combines introspection with corpus analysis in his linguistic investigations.

His most recent publications (2023-2024) demonstrate a continued focus on complex prepositions in French, polysemy patterns, spatial-temporal mappings, and the expression of manner across languages. These works reveal consistent research trajectories examining how spatial concepts structure temporal domains and how complex prepositional constructions evolve across European languages.

Stosic is actively involved in multiple research projects including the ANR DIVITAL project (2021-2025) focused on increasing the digital vitality of regional French languages, and the SALTA project examining spatial asymmetries across languages. He regularly organizes academic events such as the PrETrELa event (2024) on written press and language study, and the MoCo Workshop on Motion & Cognition.

His scholarly contributions include several significant books such as 'Complex Adpositions in European Languages' (2020), 'The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French' (2019), and 'Les prépositions complexes en français. Théories, descriptions, applications' (2023), establishing him as a leading expert in prepositional semantics and complex adpositions across European languages.