32.1975, FYI: Approximation in Morphology: Special Issue in Journal of Word Formation

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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 05:48:52
From: Muriel Norde [muriel.norde at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Approximation in Morphology: Special Issue in Journal of Word Formation

 
APPROXIMATION has been at the centre of interest in various subfields of
linguistics, such as pragmatics and discourse studies, where it has been
referred to in different terms, such as ‘mitigation’ (Caffi 2007),
‘indeterminacy’ (Bazzanella 2011), ‘hedging’ (Lakoff 1972) or ‘(intentional)
vagueness’ (Channell 1994; Mihatsch 2007; Voghera 2021). Morphological means
to convey these meanings have not been studied in great depth however (as
compared to other strategies such as particles or discourse markers). To be
sure, evaluative morphology is a well-established domain of investigation
(see, e.g. Grandi & Körtvélyessy 2015 for a fairly recent survey), but
APPROXIMATION has not been as much in focus as other types of evaluation, such
as DIMINUTION, AUGMENTATION and INTENSIFICATION (e.g. Merlini, Barbaresi &
Dressler 1994; Jurafsky 1996; Grandi 2002; Schneider 2003; Bakema & Geeraerts
2004; Prieto 2005; Körtvélyessy & Štekauer eds. 2011; Efthymiou 2015;
Efthymiou, Fragaki & Markos 2015; Napoli 2017).
This Special Issue Approximation in Morphology intends to bridge this gap, by
focusing exclusively on APPROXIMATION in word formation, as a follow-up to
pioneering publications on morphopragmatics (Dressler & Merlini Barbaresi
1994) and more recent studies of diminutive markers used as attenuation
strategies in Italian (Grandi 2017), compounding elements expressing imitation
or fakeness in Dutch (Van Goethem & Norde 2020), or approximative meanings of
Italian simil- (Masini & Micheli 2020) and English (-)ish (e.g. Oltra-Massuet
2017, Kempf & Eitelmann 2018, Eitelmann, Haugland & Haumann 2020). We
understand APPROXIMATION as a complex functional domain including (at least)
vagueness, non-prototypicality, attenuation, and fakeness/imitation.

For this Special Issue, we invite empirically based papers on approximation in
word formation, which may be based on any theoretical framework, methodology
or perspective, and which address one or more of the following research
questions:
- What is the role and status of approximation within word-formation? 
- Which morphological means are used in the world’s languages to express
approximating values and, conversely, which approximating values are expressed
by morphological means?
- What are the sources of approximating morphological markers
crosslinguistically?
- Do we find competition between approximating morphological markers in a
single language?

Complementary Workshop:

As a complement to this Special Issue, we will organise a “discontinuous
workshop”, i.e. a series of online meetings in which we discuss preliminary
versions of each other’s papers, to take place between October 2021 and April
2022. To this end, all authors will be asked to submit a squib of maximally
5000 words for one of those meetings. The exact programme will be established
during the first meeting, which is scheduled for the first half of October
(depending on the participants’ availability). We believe that such
interactions with fellow authors during the writing process will be of benefit
to us all and result in a maximally coherent volume. The full (10.000-word)
papers are expected by 1 June 2022, with a view of publishing the Special
Issue in April 2023 in Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word
Formation. Each paper will be reviewed by two anonymous reviewers.  The issue
will be published online and open access.

Submission Procedure:

If you are interested at presenting your work at the discontinuous workshop
and subsequently submitting the full paper for the Special Issue, please send
an abstract of 300-500 words (excluding references) to
francesca.masini at unibo.it, kristel.vangoethem at uclouvain.be and
muriel.norde at hu-berlin.de by 2 August 2021. Notification will be given by the
end of August. 

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 2 August 2021
Notification by: 31 August 2021
Discontinuous Workshop
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology





 



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