33.209, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Hungary

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-33-209. Fri Jan 21 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.209, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Hungary

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Billy Dickson
Managing Editor: Lauren Perkins
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Goldfinch, Nils Hjortnaes,
      Joshua Sims, Billy Dickson, Amalia Robinson, Matthew Fort
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 01:44:12
From: Livio Gaeta [livio.gaeta at unito.it]
Subject: Backformation in a New Theoretical Universe

 
Full Title: Backformation in a New Theoretical Universe 
Short Title: IMM20 

Date: 01-Sep-2022 - 04-Sep-2022
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact Person: Livio Gaeta
Meeting Email: livio.gaeta at unito.it
Web Site: http://www.nytud.hu/imm20/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2022 

Meeting Description:

''Back-formation in a new theoretical universe'' is a workshop that will be
held during the 20th International Morphology Meeting.
Convenors: Livio Gaeta (University of Turin) & Fabio Montermini (CNRS &
University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
Keynote speaker: Franz Rainer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Traditionally, the phenomenon of so-called back-formation occupies only some
lines in introductory textbooks in word-formation, and, with few exceptions
(Becker 1993, Plag 2003: 27, Rainer 2004), it is discussed even more sparsely
in theoretical works, often as cases of “reanalysis/reinterpretation
involv[ing] some analogical pressures, especially when the reanalysis is
induced by models that exist elsewhere in the language” (Joseph 2001, cf. also
Mel’čuk 2001: 532). It is not rare, moreover, that back-formation is included
among minor word-formation processes on a par with extragrammatical or
marginal morphological phenomena like blending, clipping and the like (Bauer
1983: 232, Lieber 2005: 375, see Štekauer 2015 for a survey).

Since recent research trends in morphology in various theoretical frameworks
have shifted the focus from purely derivational rules to lexical /
derivational networks or paradigms, the very role of directionality in
word-formation (and more generally in linguistics) has been challenged. In
particular, multidirectionality and multiple motivation have been identified
as constitutive properties for many derived lexemes. Concurrently, analogy has
progressively been recognized as a driving force for derivation, losing its
status of a marginal, unpredictable, phenomenon. In this picture, one can
wonder whether “back-formation” can still be considered a theoretical relevant
concept, or rather a merely descriptive label.


2nd Call for Papers:

Call Deadline extended to January 31, 2022.

We call for proposals devoted to both theoretical issues and concrete case
studies of back-formation in any language, and theoretical perspective. A
non-exhaustive list of possible issues to be addressed is the following:

- What is back-formation? Does it correspond to a theoretically relevant
notion for linguistics?
- Is back-formation a well-defined set of phenomena? How to determine its
borders and content?
- What are the properties of back-formation? What is its relation to
subtraction, clipping and other similar phenomena?
- Should back-formation as a diachronic phenomenon be distinguished from
back-derivation as a synchronic process on a par with other word-formation
processes?
- Is back-formation a universal phenomenon or is it limited to a subset of
languages (e.g. to agglutinating morphology)?
- Is back-formation limited to derivation, or should it include inflectional
analogical phenomena?
- Are there cognitive / acquisitional cues that allow distinguishing
back-formation from other morphological phenomena?
- What can corpus linguistics – and more generally electronically available
data-bases – tell us with regard to the consistence and to the measurability
of back-formation?

Abstracts couched in any theoretical framework are welcome on any topic
relating to the above issues. Abstracts should not be longer than 500 words
excluding references and should be submitted via Easychair at the following
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imm20bf

Deadline for submitting abstracts in anonymized form: January 31, 2022;
notification of acceptance: May 15, 2022.

Scientific Committee
Mark Aronoff
Laurie Bauer
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Maria Grossmann
Antonio Fábregas
Bernard Fradin
Brian Joseph
Rochelle Lieber
Elisa Mattiello
Fiammetta Namer
Susan Olsen
Franz Rainer
Pavel Štekauer
Anna M. Thornton
Petra M. Vogel




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2020 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
                   https://crowdfunding.iu.edu/the-linguist-list

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-33-209	
----------------------------------------------------------