35.526, Calls: The Meaning Side of Word Formation Constructions

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Subject: 35.526, Calls: The Meaning Side of Word Formation Constructions

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Date: 14-Feb-2024
From: Sascha Michel [s.michel at isk.rwth-aachen.de]
Subject: The Meaning Side of Word Formation Constructions


Full Title: The Meaning Side of Word Formation Constructions

Date: 04-Sep-2024 - 06-Sep-2024
Location: Osnabrück, Germany
Contact Person: Sascha Michel
Meeting Email: s.michel at isk.rwth-aachen.de

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Morphology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)

Call Deadline: 21-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

The Meaning Side of Word Formation Constructions

In recent years, word formation has increasingly become the focus of
construction grammar studies (cf. Booij 2018; Hein/Michel 2023). Like
constructions on other linguistic levels, word formation constructions
can be reconstructed as schemata comprising a form side and a meaning
side (Booij 2010). However, it is unclear what exactly has to be
counted among the meaning side of word formation constructions and how
it can be appropriately reconstructed and modelled within the
framework of a usage-based cognitive linguistic theory. While Croft
(2001), for example, explicitly assigns not only semantic but also
pragmatic and discourse re-lated features or specifications to the
meaning side of constructions (cf. also Östman 2005), many approaches
in construction grammar-oriented word formation research have long
focussed primarily on the semantic level. Pragmatic, discourse-related
and interactional dimensions of the meaning of word formation
constructions, on the other hand, have only recently become the focus
of research (cf. Wolfer/Hein 2022; Finkbeiner 2023; Michel 2023;
Stumpf 2023; Stumpf/Merten 2023). Another current problem area in the
study of the meaning of word-formation constructions concerns the
question of how to deal methodologically and theoretically with the
distinction and interplay between lexical meaning (meaning of the
mor-phemes involved) on the one hand and constructional meaning on the
other (cf. Willich 2022).

Call for Papers:

Against this background, the section would like to deal with the
meaning side of word-for-mation constructions, focussing on the
following thematic blocks and questions:

1. Scope and complexity of the meaning side of word-formation
constructions
• Can the meaning side of word-formation constructions be limited to
context-independent abstract aspects of meaning, or is the meaning of
word-formation constructions so closely linked to context-dependent
discourse related dimensions of their use that these dimensions must
be represented in the meaning side? What role do pragmatic processes
such as implicatures or inferences (cf. Finkbeiner 2019) and
cognitive-functional phenomena such as metaphors (Lakoff/Johnson 1980)
play?
• What interactional and discourse related practices can
word-formation constructions contribute to, and what discourse
morphological properties can be attributed to them against this
background?
• How can the contribution of interactional and discourse related
practices to the diachronic semantic development of word-formation
constructions be conceived within the framework of a
construction-grammatical approach to word formation (cf. Bücker,
submitted; see also Hartmann 2016 on a diachronic construction grammar
approach to word formation)?
• Can the content side of word-formation constructions be
differentiated diasystematically (cf. Höder 2019; Stumpf 2023)?

2. Recording and modelling the meaning side of word formation
constructions
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of different semantic
approaches to the meaning side of word formation constructions (e.g.
semantic feature analysis, frame semantics, prototype semantics, event
semantics)? (How) Can the different approaches be combined with each
other?
• How can compositional and holistic aspects of meaning be identified
empirically and how can they be modelled appropriately in theory
building?
• Are semantic, pragmatic and discourse related features that play a
role for the meaning of word-formation constructions linguistically
separated from each other and related to each other by interfaces (for
example in the sense of a "parallel architecture", cf. Jackendoff
2002; Jackendoff/Audring 2019), or is their separation on the meaning
side of word-formation constructions not necessary from a usage-based
cognitive-linguistic perspective?

3. Content-based networks of word formation constructions
• Can word formation constructions be reconstructed semantically as
parts of usage-based linguistic networks (cf. Bücker 2012; Diessel
2019; Hein 2023)?
• What empirical and theoretical requirements are associated with a
constructographic perspective on the meaning side of word formation
constructions (cf. Lyngfelt et al. 2018; Ziem/Flick 2019)?

We are looking forward to 30 minutes presentations (20+10) in German
or English. If you would like to give a presentation, please send an
abstract (500 words) to the organisers by 21.04.2024:

joerg.buecker at hhu.de
s.michel at isk.rwth-aachen.de



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