33.1163, Confs: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Morphology, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-1163. Fri Apr 01 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.1163, Confs: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Morphology, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 01:16:37
From: Barbara Schlücker [barbara.schluecker at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Word Formation and Discourse Structure

Word Formation and Discourse Structure 
Short Title: WFDS 

Date: 05-May-2022 - 06-May-2022 
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact: Barbara Schlücker 
Contact Email: wfds at uni-leipzig.de 
Meeting URL: https://home.uni-leipzig.de/grammatik-des-deutschen/WFDS/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

What are the grammatical and semantic relations that shape and determine the
structure of a text? What makes the structure of a discourse coherent? These
are key questions in the study of text and discourse linguistics, and they
have been discussed from various angles and theoretical frameworks for a long
time (e.g., Daneš 1970; Klein & von Stutterheim 1987; Mann & Thompson 1988;
Sanders et al. 1992; Givón 1992; Grosz et al. 1995).

The study of discourse structure considers both the formal side of linguistic
expressions and the semantic-pragmatic relations and, notably, interface
relations between grammar and pragmatics. However, the formal side is mostly
restricted to syntax. The aim of the workshop, therefore, is to explore the
role of word formation in this.

The relevance of word formation for text constitution has already been
discussed in early studies such as Schröder (1978), Dederding (1983),
Kastovsky (1982), Lipka (1987), Eichinger (1995), Peschel (2002), and Schlienz
(2004). They deal with the „syntactic“ function of word formation, i.e.
pronominalization in the broadest sense and condensation of information to
increase the coherence of the text. However, most of these works relate to
nominal compounds only and are based on small data sets.

In addition, word formation patterns have also been discussed as indicators of
register, style and text type, such as the frequent occurrence of
nominalization patterns in administrative or scientific texts or diminutives
in expressive register or children’s literature. More specifically, it has
been found that the productivity of derivational affixes varies depending on
register, text type and even subject of the text (Baayen & Neijt 1997; Plag et
al. 1999). These differences in productivity have been explained, among other
things, by the way derivatives are embedded in the context, i.e. their
morphological and semantic anchoring.

While in discourse linguistics there have been many advances concerning both
formal theoretical modelling as well as large databases and computational
methods in recent years (cf. Kamp & Reyle 1993; Asher & Lascarides 2003; Stede
2012; Webber & Joshi 2012, for instance), it seems that word formation has
hardly been considered since.

Therefore, the workshop seeks to resume the relation between word formation
and discourse structure by taking into account a wide range of word formation
patterns with a focus on advanced discourse models and empirical approaches.
This includes questions such as:

- Which discourse relations can be evoked by word formation patterns?
- How does formal recurrence of word formation elements increase coherence?
More generally: What is the role of frequency in this connection?
- Which role do conversion and other word formation processes besides
derivation and compounding play in this connection?
- How do word formation categories other than nominalization contribute to the
coherence of the text and establishing discourse relations?
- In which way do different kinds of event nominalizations contribute to
establishing the discourse structure? What about affixes that are not event
nominalizations?
- How are related elements limited by distance?

Invited Speaker: Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam

Program:

The workshop program can be found here:
https://home.uni-leipzig.de/grammatik-des-deutschen/WFDS/

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