33.1058, Calls: English; Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 33.1058, Calls: English; Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:04:11
From: Kerstin Majewski [Kerstin.Majewski at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de]
Subject: Historical English Word-Formation

 
Full Title: Historical English Word-Formation 

Date: 17-Feb-2023 - 18-Feb-2023
Location: Munich, Germany 
Contact Person: Kerstin Majewski
Meeting Email: Kerstin.Majewski at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: https://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/abteilungen/sprachgeschichte/aktuelles/international-symposium-2023/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 13-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

In its development from Old English to today, the English vocabulary underwent
a radical restructuring due to an enormous influx of (complex) lexemes from
Latin, Anglo-Norman, French, Greek, and other languages. Even though
historical linguistics has traced and investigated many aspects of the complex
mechanisms of language contact involved in all levels of language, studies on
historical word-formation are comparatively rare (cf., e.g., Kastovsky 1968
and 2007; Faiß 1992; Sauer 1992; Ciszek 2008; Fisiak/Bator 2013; see also
further below). For this reason, our 2023 symposium at Munich University
focuses on English word-formation from the earliest texts to the Late Modern
English period. We invite studies in Old, Middle, and/or Early and Late Modern
English with a specifically historical perspective, working with different
theoretical and methodological approaches – functional, semantic,
socio-pragmatic, sociolinguistic, cognitive, computational, etc.


Call for Papers:

Contributions may address questions such as:

- Which new insights into the frequency and productivity as well as the rules
and restrictions of word-formation units and patterns are gained from studying
historical sources? For instance, how, why, and when do native (Germanic) and
non-native (Romance) elements, patterns, and levels of word-formation compete
or overlap (e.g., Middle English hybrid-formations with a Germanic base and a
Romance affix such as know-able vs. borrowed, stem-based forms such as
charit-able; or derivational affixes like fore- vs. ante-, -ness vs. -ity;
cf., e.g., Säily 2018).
- How and why do phrasal and prepositional verbs and other multi-word lexical
items emerge (cf., e.g., Thim 2012; Rodríguez-Puente 2019) and what is their
relation to inherited and borrowed vocabulary?
- Which roles do regional, social, and medial factors as well as text-types
and genres play in historical English word-formation (cf., e.g., Terasawa
1994; Gardner 2014; Säily 2014)?
- Which current approaches and methodologies applied to Modern English
word-formation research can be made fruitful for investigating past language
stages (cf. Lloyd 2011; Müller et al. 2015–2016)?
- How have electronic (historical) corpora and the Digital Humanities enhanced
the study of Old, Middle, and/or Early Modern English word-formation (cf.,
e.g., Dalton-Puffer 1996; Markus et al. 2012)?

General information:
Abstracts of 250 words (bibliography excluded) should be sent to
kerstin.majewski at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de by 13 June 2022.
The symposium will take place at the Fachbibliothek Philologicum, Ludwigstr.
25, 80539 München. If this should not be possible, we will hold the conference
in a hybrid-format or as an online video conference.

The conference fee includes coffee, tea, and non-alcoholic beverages as well
as snacks during the symposium.

Regular attendance:  EUR 50,-
University students’ attendance:  EUR 25,- (LMU students free)

Registration and payment methods will be announced in September 2022.




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