36.3003, Confs: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Morphology in Context (Hungary)

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Subject: 36.3003, Confs: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Morphology in Context (Hungary)

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Date: 06-Oct-2025
From: Barbara Schlücker [barbara.schluecker at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Morphology in Context


Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Morphology in
Context

Date: 28-May-2026 - 31-May-2026
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact: Barbara Schlücker
Contact Email: barbara.schluecker at fu-berlin.de
Meeting URL: http://www.morphologyincontext.uni-trier.de/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology;
Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

Convenors:
Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier)
Barbara Schlücker (FU Berlin)
Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context,
and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored
different facets of the role of context. By ‘context’ we mean the
linguistic context, both immediate (e.g. preceding and following
words) and with a larger scope (e.g. text types), and the
extralinguistic context such as the speaker and the listener or the
situation of speaking and the discourse domain. Contextual effects in
morphology concern the use of complex words and their coinage as well
as the production and comprehension of complex words.
On the syntagmatic dimension, we see contextual effects emerging from
syntactic context, register, and discourse. For example, Zee et al.
(2025) provide evidence that the prosodic properties of the immediate
syntactic context influence affix choice in situations in which
synonymous, but prosodically different alternatives are available.
Also, Degaetano-Ortlieb et al. (2021) show by means of a large-scale
diachronic corpus study that the dynamics of affix usage and
productivity is influenced by speaker groups (in their case: gender)
and situational context (cf. also Säily et al. 2024 on gender and
constructional context). Correlations between register or text type
and morphological productivity have been found for derivational
affixes (Plag et al. 1999, Guz 2009) and compounds (Degaetano-Ortlieb
2021). Also, the overall density of word formation, i.e. the
proportion of word formations in a text, varies depending on the text
type (Stumpf 2023). Regarding discourse structure, both the effects of
the text on word processing and the effects of complex words on text
comprehension, i.e. the function of complex words as cohesion markers,
have been observed (Dederding 1983, Libben et al. 2021). Yet another
type of syntagmatic contextual effect is priming and morphological
convergence (e.g. Rácz et al. 2020). On the paradigmatic dimension,
contextual effects can be observed in phenomena that concern affix
rivalry and blocking as well as variation in the phonological and
phonetic realisation of complex words (e.g. Ganster 2025 on speaker
differences in morphophonology, e.g. Tomaschek et al. 2021 on
collocational effects on the phonetic realisation of affixes).
This workshop is intended to bring together morphologists working on a
wide variety of different context effects, both in terms of different
types of context along the syntagmatic dimension, and different ways
in which context effects can be observed in morphology along the
paradigmatic dimension. We intend to (a) take stock of the empirical
scope of context effects as can be observed in the wild, and (b)
discuss the nature and theoretical implications of such effects for
theories of linguistic morphology. We specifically welcome researchers
from different methodological backgrounds (e.g. theoretical
linguistic, corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic).
Interested researchers are cordially invited to submit their abstract
for a 20 minute presentation at the workshop.
Submission Information:
Please submit an anonymous abstract (pdf, max. 500 words, excluding
references and set examples) via EasyAbs:
easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/MorphContext/



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