28.404, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-28-404. Thu Jan 19 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.404, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté,
                                   Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <ken at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:23:47
From: Daphné Kerremans [daphne.kerremans at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de]
Subject: The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation. Data, Methods, Models

 
Full Title: The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation. Data, Methods, Models 

Date: 28-Jun-2017 - 30-Jun-2017
Location: Munich, Germany 
Contact Person: Daphné Kerremans
Meeting Email: daphne.kerremans at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The fate of lexical innovations is not predetermined. Some nonce-formations,
coined at the spur of the moment, remain ephemeral and are never used again.
Others manage to spread and gain a certain degree of currency, but never make
it into the common vocabulary shared by most speakers and disappear from
active use after a brief period of time. Yet others diffuse rapidly and become
permanent additions to the lexicon. The dynamics of these diffusion processes,
and the factors influencing the extent to which new words become
conventionalized have not been investigated systematically so far.

The workshop ‘The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, Methods, Models’ plans
to provide a forum for research that investigates how lexical innovations
diffuse in speech communities, domains of usage, media and text types and
tries to determine which factors play a role in this process. The workshop
focuses on challenges involved in data acquisition, on methodological and
technical aspects, and on theoretical and computational models of lexical
innovation and diffusion processes. 


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for a 20-minute presentation on topics relevant to the
workshop’s central issues and questions. Case studies on selected phenomena
are also welcome if they allow for generalizations relating to the dynamics of
lexical innovation and the mechanisms underlying their spread. More
concretely, the organizers welcome papers on the following issues and
questions, among others:

- How can neologisms be detected as close to their moment of coinage as
possible?
- How can their spread be monitored systematically?
- What are suitable dependent variables for measuring the diffusion of lexical
innovations and how can they be operationalized?
- Which sources are particularly useful for detecting neologisms and how can
data retrieval procedures be implemented?
- What are the factors that co-determine the time course and pathways of the
conventionalization of lexical innovations?
- Which types of models provide a systematic account of the process of lexical
innovation and adequately predict the effects of the factors influencing this
process?

Abstracts of max. 500 words should be sent to
daphne.kerremans at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de by 15 February 2017. Notifications
of acceptance will be sent out by 15 March 2017.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Pragmatics
& Cognition in 2018.




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

        Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-28-404	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/