The Aqua-motion project (based in Moscow, Russia) is devoted to the description and cross-linguistic comparison of aqua-motion predicates, i.e. predicates denoting motion in a liquid medium – like swim, sail and float in English, nager, naviguer, flotter and surnager in French or płynąć and pływać in Polish.

The main general issue dealt with in the present research is the conceptualization of the temperature domain in natural lnaguages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms, such as the adjectives hot, cold etc.