[HPSG-L] Open call for volume proposals - Phraseology and Multiword Expressions

Manfred Sailer sailer at em.uni-frankfurt.de
Tue May 20 09:07:03 UTC 2025


Phraseology and Multiword Expressions (PMWE,  
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe) is a book series at  
Language Science Press, a born-digital scholar-led open access  
publisher in linguistics.

The se­ries pub­lishes high-qual­i­ty books about conventionalized,  
idiosyncratic combinations of words. Within the field of phraseology  
such word combinations are sometimes called phrasemes, while the  
computational linguistics community uses the term multiword  
expressions for them. Various subtypes of such word combinations are  
of interest, such as multiword compounds, multiword terms, multiword  
named entities, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, idioms,  
collocations, formulaic speech, proverbs, etc.

The series is open to different approaches to create a forum for an  
interdisciplinary and cross-framework exchange of research results,  
including but not limited to the following subdisciplines:

- Computational linguistics and natural language processing
- Computer science
- Corpus linguistics
- Lexicography
- Psycholinguistics
- Theoretical linguistics

We welcome volume proposals addressing all topics related to  
theoretical, computational, and empirical approaches to phraseology  
including:

- Linguistic properties and typologies of multiword expressions,  
especially in multilingual frameworks
- Digital lexical resources including multiword expressions
- Description and processing of multiword expressions in syntactic and  
semantic frameworks (e.g., CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD)
- Identification and annotation of multiword expressions in corpora  
and treebanks
- Multiword expressions in machine translation and other end-user applications
- Multiword expressions and lexical innovation
- Diachronic studies and semantic change in multiword expressions
- Representation and evaluation of multiword expressions in language  
models (e.g., LLMs) and text generation systems

All contributions should be in English.

To submit a volume proposal, please follow the guidelines at the  
series home page:
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe

Volumes published so far:

Voula Giouli, Verginica Barbu Mititelu (eds.) Multiword expressions in  
lexical resources: Linguistic, lexicographic, and computational  
perspectives. 2024.

Victoria Beatrix Fendel (ed.) Support-verb constructions in the  
corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?. 2024.

Aleksandar Trklja, Łukasz Grabowski (eds.) Formulaic language:  
Theories and methods. 2021
#Sabine Schulte im Walde, Eva Smolka (eds.) The role of constituents  
in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual  
perspective. 2020.

Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk (eds.) Representation and parsing  
of multiword expressions: Current trends. 2019.

Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze  
(eds.) Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers  
from the MWE 2017 workshop. 2018.

Manfred Sailer, Stella Markantonatou (eds.) Multiword expressions:  
Insights from a multi-lingual perspective. 2018.

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Institut für England- und Amerikastudien
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt a.M.
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