35.2950, Calls: SLE 2025 Workshop Proposal: "Compounding in word-formation paradigms"

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Subject: 35.2950, Calls: SLE 2025 Workshop Proposal: "Compounding in word-formation paradigms"

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Date: 22-Oct-2024
From: Nabil Hathout [Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: SLE 2025 Workshop Proposal: "Compounding in word-formation paradigms"


Full Title: SLE 2025 Workshop Proposal: "Compounding in word-formation
paradigms"

Date: 26-Aug-2025 - 29-Oct-2024
Location: Bordeaux, France
Contact Person: Nabil Hathout
Meeting Email: Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/workshop-proposals/

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The notion of paradigm, which is traditionally linked to inflectional
morphology, has been growingly applied to word-formation phenomena in
the last years (Bauer 1997; Blevins 2001; Booij & Lieber 2014;
Štekauer 2014; Boyé & Schalchli 2016; Bonami & Strnadová 2019; Hathout
& Namer 2019; Fernández-Domínguez et al. 2020; Fradin 2020; Gaeta
2022, among many others). Paradigms have proven useful to deal with
various derivational phenomena, such as form-meaning mismatches,
parallel derivation, productivity, affix rivalry, etc. Their relevance
to word-formation has been put forward in various theoretical
approaches and using different research methods, including
quantitative studies (Bonami & Guzmán Naranjo 2023) and
psycholinguistic approaches (Rodrigues & Rodrigues 2018; Copot &
Bonami 2024).

Most of the available literature on paradigmatic word-formation
focuses on affixal derivation. Other formal strategies available in
word-formation, such as conversion, templatic morphology, blending,
clipping and compounding have been less studied. The workshop focuses
on compounding, which is a one of the most widespread word-formation
mechanisms, sometimes considered to be a universal feature of human
language, e.g. by Dressler (2006).  Attempts have been recently made
in this direction (Kunduracı 2018; Radimský 2020; Bauer 2022;
Bagasheva & Fernández-Domínguez 2022; Cetnarowska 2022, among others).
However, many questions remain open, including:
 • Should compounds be integrated into word-formation paradigms? If
so, would they belong to the same paradigms as derivatives, or to
paradigms that are different in nature?
 • Can compounds be integrated into word-formation paradigms in
similar ways across languages? Do cross-linguistic differences in
compounding affect word-formation paradigms?
 • Compounds are often considered to be more analytic and closer to
syntactic structures than canonical (e.g., affixal) derivatives. Is
this feature compatible with paradigm structure? Are compounds
substantially different from derivatives in this respect?
 • Compounds are considered to be created on the spot by speakers, to
be fully compositional, and, as a consequence, less likely to be
stored in the lexicon and to undergo lexicalization (Gaeta & Ricca
2009). Do data confirm this view, and how does compositionality impact
their integration into word-formation paradigms?
 • Do different types of compounds behave differently with respect to
word-formation paradigms? Are some compounds easier to integrate into
paradigms, for instance, those containing affixoids (-ful in
meaningful, Dalton-Puffer & Plag 2000; Dutch oud- in oud-collega,
Booij & Hüning 2014) or neoclassical combining forms (-ology as in
Egyptology, Amiot & Dugas 2021)?
 • How do compounds behave diachronically with respect to
word-formation paradigms, in particular in cases of
grammaticalization? Are grammaticalization and integration in
word-formation paradigms related?
 • How does the syntagmatic combination of compounding with other
morphological phenomena (e.g. linking elements, German Volk+s+kunde
‘folklore’, parasynthetic compounding, church-goer) interact with
their integration into derivational paradigms?
 • Do the different types of compounds that have been described (i.e.,
exocentric vs endocentric; coordinative vs subordinative vs
attributive, cf. Bisetto & Scalise 2005) form different word-formation
paradigms?

Answering some of these questions will not only contribute to a more
accurate characterization of morphological paradigms and of their role
in lexical organization, but also help better understand compounding
and its interaction with other word-formation mechanisms.

The workshop is intended to discuss these topics from a variety of
perspectives, experimental, descriptive, theoretical, typological,
sociolinguistic, synchronic, diachronic, etc.

Call for Papers:

We invite authors to submit provisional abstracts for 20-minutes
presentations, no longer than 300 words (references excluded), to be
included in the workshop proposal. Abstracts should be sent to the
convenors (nabil.hathout at univ-tlse2.fr; fabio.montermini at univ-
tlse2.fr) before November 15, 2024. Authors will be notified of
preliminary acceptance of their proposals before the workshop
submission on November 20, 2024. In case of acceptance of the
workshop, full abstracts are due before January 15, 2025.



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