28.325, Calls: Greek, General Linguistics, Morphology/UK

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:39:44
From: Paraskevi Savvidou [psavvidou at phil.uoa.gr]
Subject: Evaluative Morphology in Greek

 
Full Title: Evaluative Morphology in Greek 

Date: 07-Sep-2017 - 09-Sep-2017
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Angeliki Efthymiou
Meeting Email: aefthym at eled.duth.gr
Web Site: http://icgl13.westminster.ac.uk/workshops/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern (ell)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Workshop title: ''Evaluative morphology in Greek''

Conveners & Organizers: 

Angeliki Efthymiou, Democritus University of Thrace, aefthym at eled.duth.gr
Paraskevi Savvidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
psavvidou at phil.uoa.gr
Chariton Charitonidis, University of Cologne,
dr.chariton.charitonidis at gmail.com

Topic Description: 

Evaluative morphology prototypically refers to diminutive, augmentative,
endearing, and pejorative morphemes, and the respective morphological rules.
It has been widely investigated from many perspectives, with emphasis lying on
the question of its position in grammar (Scalise 1984, Anderson 1992, Stump
1993), its structural characteristics (Grandi & Montermini 2005,
Melissaropoulou & Ralli 2008), as well as its semantic properties (Jurafsky
1996, Grandi 2005, 2009, Fortin 2011, Meibauer 2013), and its pragmatic
aspects to a lesser extent (Dressler & Merlini-Barbaresi 1994).

The interest for the investigation of evaluative morphology was raised
significantly after Scalise’s (1984) claim for a set of characteristics which
argue the existence of a separate level of grammar, i.e. a third morphology. A
remarkable number of studies adopted a typological or cross-linguistic
perspective, in order to examine the universal validity of Scalise’s remarks
(see among others Bauer 1996, 1997, Gregova et al 2010, Štekauer at al 2012).
That increased interest provided fruitful insights into the character of
evaluative morphology, but less attention has been given to the detailed
description of the evaluative morphology of individual languages (see
Körtvelyessy 2015). 

As regards Modern Greek, a few in-depth analyses focus on very special topics.
For instance, headedness in diminutives is discussed in Melissaropoulou &
Ralli (2008) and Andreou (2014), diminutive and augmentative adjectives are
discussed in Efthymiou (2015), reduplication in Kallergi (2015), etc. The
semantics of intensifying prefixes are studied by Fotiou (1998), Delveroudi &
Vassilaki (1999), Efthymiou (2003), Efthymiou, Fragaki & Markos (2015),
Anastassiadis-Symeonidis (2008), Gavriilidou (2013), and Savvidou (2012).
Sifianou (1992), Xydopoulos (2009), and Savvidou (2012) discuss the pragmatics
of diminutives, Charitonidis (2014) discusses the linking of grammatical and
pragmatic heads in compounding, and Giannoulopoulou (2003) studies evaluative
morphemes in the frame of grammaticalization. 

However, there is no detailed account of evaluative morphology. Morphological
evaluation of Modern Greek is realized by various means, mainly of
suffixation, prefixation, compounding and reduplication to a lesser extent.
Moreover, diminutive and augmentative constructions are very frequent and they
perform a wide range of functions. Therefore, further research in this area
can offer significant evidence to the study of evaluative morphology in
general, which currently is to the foreground of research (see for instance
Grandi & Körtvelyessy 2015, Körtvelyessy 2015).


2nd Call for Papers:

Extended deadline: 31 January 2017

We are happy to invite submissions for the workshop “Evaluative morphology in
Greek”, which will be held in the context of the 13th International Conference
on Greek Linguistics (7-9 September 2017, University of Westminster, London).

For the envisaged workshop, we invite both theoretical and empirical
contributions dealing with the following topics:

a) The range of Greek evaluative morphemes in terms of semantics (diminutives,
augmentatives, pejoratives, hypocoristics, attenuation, intensification, etc.)
b) Greek evaluative morphemes in a diachronic perspective
c) Greek evaluative morphemes and pragmatics
d) Greek evaluative morphemes and gender
e) Greek evaluative morphemes and aspect
f) Greek evaluative constructions and sociolinguistic variation

Submission Guidelines:

Those who wish to participate in the above workshop are invited to submit
their abstract by 31 January 2017 to the following electronic address:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ICGL13 .

On the abstract submission page, log in to the submission system and start the
process. An e-mail confirmation of receipt of abstract will be sent to you
immediately. Your text should be 300 words maximum (including references, if
any). Do not use any special fonts, such as bold print or caps. Do not add
tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract. Do not indent your paragraphs,
leave one space between paragraphs instead. Papers may be presented either in
Greek or in English and should be 20 minutes long followed by a 10-minute
discussion.

Please note that each participant is entitled to submit only one (single or
joint) abstract, whether for a presentation to the main conference or for a
workshop, either as a single author or as a co-author.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 April 2017.

For further details, please visit the webpage of the main conference at
http://icgl13.westminster.ac.uk/




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