33.2448, Calls: Applied Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Subject: 33.2448, Calls: Applied Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:27:27
From: Manon Philippe [manon.philippe at univ-rennes2.fr]
Subject: In lieu of common nouns: (a)typical nominalizations

Full Title: In lieu of common nouns: (a)typical nominalizations 

Date: 10-Nov-2022 - 10-Nov-2022
Location: Rennes 2 University, France 
Contact Person: Manon Philippe
Meeting Email: manon.philippe at univ-rennes2.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Sep-2022 

Meeting Description:

Title : In lieu of common nouns: (a)typical nominalizations
One-day workshop at Rennes 2 University on Nov. 10 2022.
Subject language : English

Call for Papers:

As part of their research cycle on “Lieux Communs” (Commonplace / common
places), the research team ACE (Anglophonie : communautés, écritures) at
University Rennes 2 are organising a series of one-day workshops in
linguistics whose aim is to question traditional syntactic and semantic
categories in English.

The first workshop will take place on  November 10, 2022 and will focus on the
noun phrase: “In lieu of common nouns: (a)typical nominalizations”.

The purpose of the workshop is to investigate contexts of nominalization in
which an overtly non-nominal linguistic unit has been artificially either
derived or converted into a noun or a nominal, or syntactically employed as
head of a noun phrase. Beyond the well-known cases of verbo-nominal derivation
and recategorization of the arrival/building type, or the nominalization of
subordinate clauses, the focus will be on cases where the acceptance of a
sub-phrasal unit into the noun or nominal category is seen as problematic
and/or is often the result of innovation (in discourse). A non-exhaustive list
of objects of study would include examples such as :

[1] categorial derivation : up-to-date-ness, over-the-top-ness (e.g., Plag
2004 and the hypothesis that recategorization is enabled by semantic and
discursive properties, rather than the syntactic nature of the base); 

[2]  “phrase-to-noun conversion” (Hohenhaus 2007): “I'm not very good at
thankyous.” (TV:2017: The Mist)

[3] suffixes used as nouns: “If you are unfamiliar with any of these
ideologies--or ''ism's'', if you will” (COCA:2012:WEB)

[4] pronouns used as nouns : “Got the who, just need the how.” (TV: 2014:
Death In Paradise); “(about a Wessen able to be either a man or a woman at a
given time) Yeah, and the problem is, after the woge, it looks like he or she
can return to him or her. And we need the he. Linus is the one with the
criminal record.” (TV: 2015: Grimm)

[5] adjectives either as heads of NPs or modifiers in headless/elided NPs: the
innocent, the rich, the poor ;

[6] reported speech inserted into a NP or instantiating a position/function
associated with NPs: The whole I am better than you because I pay is immature
behavior and TOR needs to crack down on it (COCA: 2012: WEB) ; He said get the
hell out and then did a twirl. (COCA: 2016: TV)

Any discussion on an original context of nominalization, which has received
little to no attention or is being given renewed attention, will be preferred.
We invite submissions that deal with :
- the syntactic and semantic description of a new case of nominalization; 
- the degrees of lexicalization of nominalized phrasal units; 
- the differences between the semantic/referential properties of these
nominalized units in relation to their non-nominalized use or in relation to
the properties of more typical nouns/nominals; 
- the NP’s ability to absorb any unit, which calls into question the need for
a noun heading NPs or for continuing to speak of NPs (Dryer 2004); 
- the relevance of a distinction between ‘nominalization’ and ‘nominality’
(and ‘nouniness’?), along the lines of what is done with adjectives and
modifiers (‘adjectivization’ vs. ‘adjectivity’).

Abstracts of max. 400 words (excluding bibliography, keywords and identity),
in English or in French, should be sent before September 20, 2022 to
anne-laure.besnard at univ-rennes2.fr and manon.philippe at univ-rennes2.fr.

References cited in the CFP:
Dryer, M. S. (2004). ‘Noun Phrases without Nouns’. Functions of Language,
11(1), 43–76. 
Hohenhaus, P. (2007). ‘How to Do (Even More) Things with Nonce Words (Other
than Naming)’. In J. Munat (Ed.), Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts (Vol.
58, pp. 15-38). John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Plag, I. (2004). ‘Syntactic Category Information and the Semantics of
Derivational Morphological Rules’. Folia Linguistica, 38 (3–4).

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