34.2879, Calls: Unlocking Evaluative Morphology: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

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Subject: 34.2879, Calls: Unlocking Evaluative Morphology: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

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Date: 03-Oct-2023
From: Muriel Norde [evaluativemorphology at gmail.com]
Subject: Unlocking Evaluative Morphology: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

Full Title: Unlocking Evaluative Morphology: Conceptual and
Methodological Challenges
Short Title: EvalMo

Date: 13-Mar-2024 - 15-Mar-2024
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Muriel Norde
Meeting Email: evaluativemorphology at gmail.com
Web Site: https://site.unibo.it/unlocking-evaluative-morphology/en

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

"Unlocking evaluative morphology: conceptual and methodological
challenges" is a project funded by the Societas Linguistica Europaea
through the "SLE Research Grant for Joint Initiatives" 2022 and
coordinated by Francesca Masini (University of Bologna), Muriel Norde
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Kristel Van Goethem (F.R.S.-FNRS
& Université catholique de Louvain). The project aims at advancing our
knowledge of evaluative morphology – and evaluative semantics in
general – by focusing on under-investigated evaluative
functions/phenomena and by using new methodological techniques (like
quantitative, experimental and behavioral methods) that might help
shedding light on open issues. This is a Call for Papers for a
workshop organized on this topic at Humboldt University of Berlin,
March 13-15, 2024.

2nd Call for Papers:

EvalMo is a hybrid workshop at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
March 14-15, 2024, with a pre-workshop tutorial on March 13
Convenors: Muriel Norde (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Francesca
Masini (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna), Kristel Van
Goethem (F.R.S.-FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain)
Organizing Committee: Daniel Ebner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin),
Beatrice Bernasconi (Roma Tre University & University of Rome “La
Sapienza”), Flavio Pisciotta (University of Salerno)

Plenary speaker: Bert Cappelle (Lille)
Tutor: Stefan Hartmann (Düsseldorf)

This workshop – funded by the SLE Joint Initiative scheme – is
concerned with morphological expression of evaluative semantics
(Grandi & Körtvélessy 2015), such as diminution (Dressler & Barbaresi
1994), intensification (Rainer 2015) or approximation (Masini, Norde &
Van Goethem 2023). Evaluation is a broad concept, covering a wide
array of values that are not always easy to distinguish from each
other. Within approximation, for instance, we may identify privativity
(Cappelle, Daugs & Hartmann 2023), similarity (Masini & Micheli 2020),
depreciation (Amiot & Stosic 2022), fakeness (Van Goethem & Norde
2020) and a great many others. On the formal side, evaluation can be
expressed by prefixes such as pseudo- (Vassiliadou et al. 2023),
suffixes such as -ish (Eitelmann, Haugland & Haumann 2020), prefixoids
such as German Hammer- ‘fantastic; very’ (Norde & Van Goethem 2018),
or reduplication such as Mädchen-Mädchen ‘girly girl’ (Frankowsky
2022). On all levels, moreover, we find overlap and competition –
similar values can be expressed by different bound morphemes and vice
versa, often within one and the same language.
The purpose of this workshop is to gain a better understanding of the
sources, formal expressions and values of evaluative morphology
cross-linguistically, addressing the following Research Questions:
1.      Which evaluative values can be expressed morphologically and
how are they related to each other?
2.      How do morphological expressions of evaluation compete? Can
they reinforce one another?
3.      What is the relationship between evaluative morphology and
evaluation on other levels (e.g. free adverbials)? Again, is there
competition and / or reinforcement across linguistic levels?

For this workshop, we invite empirically-based studies addressing one
or more of the above RQs, with a special focus on methodological
approaches (e.g. corpus-based or experimental) to unlock the domain of
evaluative morphology. Case studies on understudied evaluative
functions and values, as well as from understudied languages are
particularly welcome.
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please send
an anonymous abstract of max. 500 words (excluding examples and
references) to evaluativemorphology at gmail.com. In a separate file,
send us a cover sheet including your name, affiliation, title and
presentation preference (oral paper or poster). Deadline for
submissions is November 1, 2023, notification of acceptance will be
sent out by December 1, 2023.

On March 13, Stefan Hartmann (HHU Düsseldorf) will offer a (hybrid)
tutorial for PhD students on visualisation of morphological data (do's
and don'ts of data visualisation, introduction to R graphics, basic
plot types). If you are interested in participating in this workshop,
please send a short motivation (max. 300 words) to the conference
address. (This also applies to PhD students who submit an abstract to
the workshop.)

The workshop and the tutorial are free of charge.

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