36.3085, Confs: Workshop at Evolang 2026: A Window Into Urschöpfung: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages (Bulgaria)

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Date: 13-Oct-2025
From: Maria Flaksman [maria.flaksman at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: Workshop at Evolang 2026: A Window Into Urschöpfung: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages


Workshop at Evolang 2026: A Window Into Urschöpfung: Primary Iconic
Coinage in Spoken Languages
Short Title: EVOLANG XVI (Iconicity workshop)

Date: 07-Apr-2026 - 07-Apr-2026
Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Contact: Maria Flaksman
Contact Email: maria.flaksman at uni-bamberg.de
Meeting URL:
https://sites.google.com/view/awindowintourschpfung/submissions?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Typology

Submission Deadline: 30-Nov-2025

EVOLANG XVI workshop 'A Window into Urschöpfung:  Primary Iconic
Coinage in Spoken Languages' (April 7, 2026; organized by Maria
Flaksman, Alexandra Bagasheva, and Maruszka Meindard) welcomes talk
and/or  poster submissions on (1) imitative words / ideophones in
ancient and reconstructed languages, (2) diachronic research on
onomatopoeia and ideophones, (3) comparative research on onomatopoeia
/ ideophones in world languages, (4) recurrent patterns in
(sound)imitation in spoken languages, (5) universal and
language-specific in imitative vocabularies in world languages, or (6)
parallels in iconic (imitative) coinage in spoken and signed
languages.
Invited speaker: Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera (talk: Ideophones and the
evolution of iconic signs: a Peircean approach)
Abstract length - 2 pages; submission deadline 30.11.2025.
Please find all the instructions and the detailed information on the
workshop at
https://sites.google.com/view/awindowintourschpfung/home?authuser=0.



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