Spatial semantics is my main research interest. In my research I ask how different spatial relations are described in Finnish (with independent grammatical elements, i.e. adpositions/adverbs, or local cases). What kind of entities are utilized as reference points (landmarks) for expressing a location of other entities (trajectors)? Are those reference points expressed, and if they are, what kinds of syntactic structures are used? Space is, together with time, one of the basic domains for humans, and the study of spatial language reflects and reveals something more general about the ways humans perceive and conceptualize space surrounding them. The theoretical framework for my study and thought is cognitive linguistics, in which the basic tenet is that language is based on humans’ general cognitive skills, such as the ability to focus one’s attention on different participants of a situation with different emphasis, the ability to categorize entities, and the ability to understand force-dynamic relations between entities. My research method is always corpus-based, and since I am also interested in the history of grammatical constructions, I use a variety of available corpora, from the oldest written Finnish from 16th century to modern language corpora.