33.923, Confs: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 33.923, Confs: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:44:20
From: Milena Belosevic [belosevic at uni-trier.de]
Subject: International Workshop: Name-based Lexical Patterns: Morphology, Phonology, Usage

 
International Workshop: Name-based Lexical Patterns: Morphology, Phonology, Usage 

Date: 31-Mar-2022 - 01-Apr-2022 
Location: hybrid (online and in person), Germany 
Contact: Milena Belosevic 
Contact Email: belosevic at uni-trier.de 
Meeting URL: https://patterns.uni-trier.de/workshop-nblp/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop description:

The workshop explores a wide range of phenomena that can be subsumed under the
label name-based lexical patterns (NBLPs). These are patterns that emerge by
combining lexical units and proper names according to different word-formation
patterns such as, for example, name-name blends (Brangelina < Brad and
Angelina), name-lexeme-blends (Hitlary < Hitler and Hillary), complex blends
(Gerda Schröckel: Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel), proper  name compounds
(Kofferschäuble/suitcase-Schäuble), re-interpretations (Joe Byedon), or
derivatives (Selenator < a fan of Selena (Gomez)). 
NBLPs have traditionally played a rather marginal role in studies of
word-formation. Whereas in some accounts they are considered to be rare and
creative, other accounts assume that there is no principled difference between
patterns involving names and other patterns (e.g. Ronneberger-Sibold 2015,
Bauer et al. 2013). Both approaches raise questions, however. Thus, the idea
that such formations are marginal seems difficult to reconcile with recent
empirical work claiming that such forms are highly productive (Kotowski et al.
2021, Filatkina 2019, Beliaeva & Knoblock 2020, Fischer & Wochele 2018),
something that is especially true for non-standard registers such as those
used in social media contexts. Accounts that do not assume that NBLPs are
special often consider examples with and without names to be representative
for a given word-formation category, but often without theoretical commitment.
At the same time, certain patterns have been shown to be different for names
than for non-names (cf. e.g. Lappe 2007, Berg 2011 on name truncation, Nübling
2017). Finally, NBLPs present a challenge to empirical research, as patterns
involving names are notoriously difficult to track in corpora, and names are
often excluded from lexical databases. The workshop seeks to bring together
morphological, phonological, semantic, pragmatic, discourse analytic, and
onomastic approaches to the study of NBLPs. We invite empirical, theoretical,
and/or methodological contributions that shed new theoretical and empirical
light on the role of proper names in word-formation processes and explore the
productivity of these patterns across standard and nonstandard corpora,
different topics, discourse domains, and languages. 

Invited speakers
Natalia Beliaeva (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Natalia Filatkina (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Barbara Schlücker (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Organisers:
Trier Center for Language and Communication / Patterns
Sabine Arndt-Lappe & Milena Belosevic
 

Program:

The workshop program can be found here:
https://patterns.uni-trier.de/workshop-nblp/

The workshop will take place as a hybrid event (in-person and online via
Zoom). 
Please send an email to belosevic at uni-trier.de if you want to participate
online. 
Remote participants will receive a Zoom link to the workshop platform shortly
before the conference.





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