33.2521, Calls: Syntax, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Typology/Romania

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Subject: 33.2521, Calls: Syntax, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Typology/Romania

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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 03:05:16
From: Carmen Mîrzea Vasile [carmen.vasile at unibuc.ro]
Subject: Workshop - Conversion/zero-derivation

Full Title: Workshop  - Conversion/zero-derivation 

Date: 18-Nov-2022 - 19-Nov-2022
Location: Bucharest and Online, Romania 
Contact Person: Carmen Mîrzea Vasile
Meeting Email: carmen.vasile at unibuc.ro
Web Site: https://litere.ro/2022/08/04/colocviul-international-al-departamentului-de-lingvistica-editia-22/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

Workshop - Conversion/zero-derivation

In response to a sustained interest in conversion, and like other recent
international events such as SLE 2020 and the Word-formation Theories VI &
Typology and Universals in Word-formation V of 2022 featuring specific
workshops on the topic (Iordăchioaia & Melloni 2020, and Fernández-Alcaina &
Valera 2022, respectively), the 22nd International Conference of the
Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest will host a workshop
on conversion/zero-derivation. The aim is to further the state-of-the-art in
this topic as regards both theoretical and empirical research. 
While the literature on conversion has become quite rich, especially for
English (see, a.o, Štekauer 1996, Farrell 2001, Bauer & Valera 2005, Don 2005,
Bram 2011, Manova 2011, Martsa 2013, 2020, Dahl & Fábregas 2018), even basic
issues still raise questions, e.g. the limits of conversion/zero-derivation as
a word-formation process, its morphosyntactic and semantic mechanisms, how
appropriate it is to assume the existence of derivational zeroes, etc., and
this both in language-specific areas as well as cross-linguistically.

The workshop is therefore intended to disseminate research, among others, on:
- types of conversions regarding (sub)categorial shift, the input-output
formal identity, the motivation, the register, etc., and types of “converters”
across languages;
- less well-known issues in conversion, e.g. directionality, constraints, the
profiles of meaning change and of semantic extension (metonymy, metaphor);
- conversion with regard to other word-formation processes, e.g. as in the
rivalry between conversion/zero-derivation and other means of word-formation
or lexico-syntactic patterns for the expression of a particular semantic
category, or with regard to the indistinct interpretation of conversion and
overt affixation or back-formation, their overlap;
- the parts-of-speech in non-prototypical syntactic positions (for example,
the adverb or noun as noun modifiers) and neighbouring, closely related
processes and properties (grammaticalization, multifunctionality, semantic
extensions, ellipsis of the head of a noun phrase, etc.);
- conversion in languages with rich morphology, from a diachronic perspective,
or with regard to specific naming needs, e.g. in toponymization.

References
Bauer, L. & S. Valera (eds.) (2005). Approaches to Conversion/Zero-Derivation.
Münster: Waxmann. 
Bram, B. (2011). Major total conversion in English: The question of
directionality. Ph.D. dissertation. School of Linguistics and Applied Language
Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Dahl, E. & A. Fábregas (2018). Zero morphemes. In R. Lieber (Editor in Chief).
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 
Don, J. (2005). On conversion, relisting and zero-derivation. A comment on
Rochelle Lieber: English Word-formation Processes. SKASE Journal of
Theoretical Linguistics. 2(2). 2-16.
Farrell, P. (2001). Functional shift as category underspecification. English
Language and Linguistics. 5(1). 109 130.
Fernández-Alcaina, C. & S. Valera (2022). Theoretical and empirical
descriptions of conversion/zero-affixation. Workshop at the Conference
Word-formation Theories VI & Typology and Universals in Word-formation V,
Košice, Slovakia, 23th-26th June 2022.  
Iordăchioaia, G. & C. Melloni (2020). Derivational zero affixes. Workshop on
Derivational zero affixes at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea, 26 th August-1st September 2020.  
Martsa, S. (2013). Conversion in English: A Cognitive Semantic Approach.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Martsa, S. (2020). Conversion in morphology. In R. Lieber (Editor in Chief).
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 
Štekauer, P. (1996). A Theory of Conversion in English. Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang.

Call for Papers:

Date: November 18–19, 2022
Venue: Hybrid: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Romania, and
online

Convenors:
Cristian Moroianu (cristian.moroianu at litere.unibuc.ro)
Carmen Mîrzea Vasile (carmen.vasile at unibuc.ro)
Salvador Valera (svalera at ugr.es)

Keynote speaker: Jan Don (Open University of the Netherlands)

Abstracts of up to 500 words (references excluded) on these and related topics
are invited in Romanian, English or French. Submissions are to be sent until
October 15, 2022 to:
cristian.moroianu at litere.unibuc.ro (Cristian Moroianu)
carmen.vasile at unibuc.ro (Carmen Mîrzea Vasile)
svalera at ugr.es (Salvador Valera)

The workshop will send the corresponding authors the results of the peer
review assessment by October 25, 2022, so preparations can be made for the
necessary travel plans or for online presentations, according to the authors’
preference. Each presentation will last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for
discussion.  

Registration: € 50 (RON 250),  25 (RON 125) for doctoral students

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