[Corpora-List] CfP: Neoclassical Compounding, Special issue of the Verbum journal

[Thierry Hamon]

                        Neoclassical Compounding

                  Special issue of the Verbum journal

          Guest Editors: Stéphanie Lignon and Fiammetta Namer


Neoclassical Compounding

Special issue of the Verbum journal

Guest Editors: Stéphanie Lignon and Fiammetta Namer

Among all the available morphological processes for lexical creation in
languages, the neoclassical compounding involves specific
models. Compounding is a constructional process during which at least
two base lexemes are combined in order to construct a new lexeme (tea
bag, timbre-poste, porte-bagage). Two types of compounding may be
distinguished: standard compounding (also called popular) on the one
hand which involves the modern vocabulary (porte-bagage), and
neoclassical compounding on the other hand which involves lexemes
borrowed from ancient languages, often Greek and Latin (coléoptère,
anthropophage).

Neoclassical compounding (also called in French “savante”, “érudite”,
“infixation”, “confixation”, etc.) was first used to describe the
creation of terms in specialized vocabularies, such as medicine,
chemistry, zoology, botanics, etc. More recently however, this type of
compounding also provides models for the creation of lexemes which do
not belong to specialized vocabularies, but to the “general” language;
e.g., contraintophobe, ferrovipathe, capillo-tracté, chronophage,
théâtrolâtre, publivore, bobophile. Moreover, automatic identification
of such lexemes is not obvious, while the affixed lexemes may be
detected quite easily. We can mention several reasons for this
situation:

- the only segment shared by the neoclassical compounds is the binding
  vowel –o- (politicomédiatique, primoaccédant) or –i- (liberticide)
  occurring between the components;

- the segment which follows the binding vowel is either a modern word
  (in French, English or in other languages) or a Greek or Latin element
  also present in other words of the modern language;

- the Greek or Latin elements are not part of the modern lexicon of a
  given language (French, English...), while the modern words are.
  Hence, in addition to the linguistic modeling, the automatic
  processing of the neoclassical compounds also requires a specific
  treatment.

The unsuspected success of the neoclassical compounding within the
general language is our main motivation for this special issue dedicated
to neoclassical compounding.

Special attention will be paid to submissions which establish a link
between corpus processing and formal models, within monolingual and
multilingual contexts, in specialized areas or in general language.

The call welcomes researchers from different areas, whatever their
theoretical schools and trends:

- linguistics: lexicon, terminology, morphology;
- Natural Language Processing,
- psycholinguistics (aspects related to the perception, language
  learning, language impairment, etc.).

Important dates (deadline extension):

- January 30th, 2013: Authors who would like to submit an article
  addressing these topics are invited to send their proposal consisting
  of two pages (plus references) with their publication project before
  January 15th, 2013. The abstract should not be programmatic but should
  clearly indicate its purpose and present the main results which will
  be developed in the article.

- February 28th, 2013: Selection of the communications performed by the
  Scientific Committee and notifications sent to the authors.

- June 30th, 2013: Reception of final versions of the articles, which
  should contain between 15 and 20 pages. The style sheet will be
  provided to the concerned authors with the acceptance notifications.

Please send your submission to Stéphanie LIGNON
(stephanie.lignon at univ-lorraine.fr) et Fiammetta NAMER
(fiammetta.namer at univ-lorraine.fr)

Scientific committee:

Dany AMIOT (STL, Université Lille 3),
Frédérique BRIN-HENRY (ATILF, Université de Lorraine),
Georgette DAL (STL, Université Lille 3),
Natalia GRABAR (STL, Université Lille 3),
Nabil HATHOUT (CLLE, Université Toulouse-Le Mirail),
Stéphanie LIGNON (ATILF, Université de Lorraine),
Fiammetta NAMER (ATILF, Université de Lorraine),
Séverine CASALIS (URECA, Université Lille 3),
Thierry HAMON (LIM&BIO, Université Paris 13),
Thi Mai TRAN (STL, Université Lille 2).


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Thierry Hamon                      E-mail : thierry.hamon at univ-paris13.fr
Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et Bioinformatique - LIM&BIO (EA3969)
UFR SMBH Léonard de Vinci et Institut Galilée
Université Paris 13                                Tel: +33 1 49 40 35 53
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