33.2444, Calls: General Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 33.2444, Calls: General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:44:40
From: Sabine Arndt-Lappe [arndtlappe at uni-trier.de]
Subject: DGfS 2023 AG1: Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface: creativity and routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions

Full Title: DGfS 2023 AG1: Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface: creativity and routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions 
Short Title: DGfS 2023 AG1 

Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Sabine Arndt-Lappe
Meeting Email: arndtlappe at uni-trier.de
Web Site: https://patterns.uni-trier.de/dynamicslexiconsyntaxinterface_dgfs2023/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 11-Sep-2022 

Meeting Description:

The 45th Annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2023, to be
held at the University of Cologne, Germany, 8-10 Mar 2023,
https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de/en/) will host a workshop on “Dynamics at the
lexicon-syntax interface: creativity and routine in word-formation and
multi-word expressions”.

Call for Papers:

Aims & Topics
Both word-formation and the coinage of multi-word expressions  can be
characterised in terms of creativity and routine. Despite obvious parallels,
however, the different types of expression are often studied independently of
each other, by different research communities. Furthermore, much research on
creativity also takes place in the domain of word-play and humorous language.
The workshop aims to bring together these different research communities to
discuss empirical evidence on the role of creativity in word-formation and
multi-word units. We invite contributions that provide empirical evidence to
answer the following (and related) questions:
- What is the role of creativity in the emergence, usage and propagation of
lexical patterns? 
- How does ‘routine’ develop?
- How and to what extent is ‘routine’ a necessary prerequisite for creative
use of word-formation and multi-word units?

Background
Routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions is traditionally
described in terms of morphological, lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic rules,
but ‘creativity’ is defined in different ways, with definitions ranging from
seeing creativity at the heart of human (linguistic) cognition (Chomsky 1964;
Goldberg 2003) to seeing creativity as precisely beyond ‘regular’ routines
(Filatkina 2018), e.g. as an attention-seeking tool or wordplay (Arndt-Lappe
et al 2018). In this latter sense, ‘creativity’ is usually sharply
distinguished from ‘productivity’, i.e. rule-governed behaviour. In research
on multi-word units, creative strategies in this sense are usually discussed
as ‘modifications’. Diachronically, however, modifications may develop into
productive patterns. In word-formation research, creative strategies in the
latter sense are often labelled as ‘extravagant’ (Haspelmath 1999),
‘extragrammatical’ (Dressler 2000), ‘analogy-based’ (Mattiello 2017), or
simply ‘creative’ (Benczes 2008); again, such patterns may diachronically
develop into regular processes (Norde & Van Goethem 2018). Despite these
categorisations, the question on what basis patterns are to be defined as
‘creative’ still remains subject to debate. Criteria that have figured
particularly prominently are (a) the degree of consciousness with which an
expression was formed, (b) the expressive function of a pattern, and (c)
structural properties of a pattern (like, e.g., non-concatenative properties).
None of these criteria is without its problems, however, as all properties
mentioned can also be true of processes that are generally not conceived of as
‘creative’. 

We encourage submissions addressing creativity and routine in patterns
formation from different theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches
that include but are not limited to questions listed above. Applications at
the crossroads of different linguistic subfields are particularly welcome as
well as applications using novel data types.

Invited speakers:
Speaker 1: Raymond Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Speaker 2: tba

Organisers:
Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier University, arndtlappe at uni-trier.de)
Natalia Filatkina (University of Hamburg, natalia.filatkina at uni-hamburg.de)

Abstracts for 20-minute talks (+10 min. discussion) should be submitted in PDF
format, and must not exceed 1000 words, excluding references. Submissions
should be sent to: arndtlappe at uni-trier.de and
natalia.filatkina at uni-hamburg.de.

Important dates:
- Deadline for abstract submission: September 11, 2022, 23:59 CET
- Notification of acceptance: September 19, 2022

Contact:
All questions about submissions can be e-mailed to arndtlappe at uni-trier.de and
natalia.filatkina at uni-hamburg.de. 

Travel grants available:
A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.

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