37.225, FYI: Call for Article Contributions: Upcoming Edited Volume on Multiword Expressions

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Date: 15-Jan-2026
From: Filip Miletic [filip.miletic at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Call for Article Contributions: Upcoming Edited Volume on Multiword Expressions


We are pleased to announce an upcoming volume on “Interdisciplinary,
cross-lingual, diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the emergence
and interpretation of multiword expression meanings”, which will be
published by Springer. We now invite article contributions to this
peer-reviewed volume.
We welcome contributions from computational linguistics,
psycholinguistics, and all other disciplines taking empirically
grounded approaches to linguistic phenomena.
TOPIC OVERVIEW
Multiword expressions (MWEs) such as compound nouns (e.g. “loan
shark”) and particle verbs (e.g. “take off”) provide a convenient way
to express complex ideas, and new MWEs are often generated to refer to
new or complex concepts. However, the extent and mechanisms by which
new MWEs can be created, used, learned, and interpreted by humans and
computational language models in an accurate and communicatively
useful manner remains an open question.
A key complicating factor is that MWEs can have multiple, sometimes
opaque and idiosyncratic interpretations. Sometimes, these
interpretations are fully determined by their constituents
expressions; other times, they go beyond these in unexpected
directions. One still underexplored factor behind these challenges are
meaning changes of multiword expressions – or their constituent words
– over time.
In our edited volume, we aim to answer the following research
questions:
- Which properties characterize MWE meaning interpretation at their
time of emergence?
- What is the common ground (temporal and contextual) for MWE
emergence?
- Why is an MWE chosen at the time of emergence, in contrast to a
simplex or complex alternative with the same or a similar
interpretation?
- How do MWE interpretations and degrees of transparency change over
time or across domains?
- What are useful and reliable MWE representations (in cognitive
and/or computational models), especially regarding sparse-data
conditions and sub-word tokenization?
- What are useful and reliable cognitive and/or computational models
for MWE meaning characterization and changes?
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
If you are interested in contributing, please send your finalized,
anonymized article (as a .pdf or .docx document) to the following
email address:
mwe-volume at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
The article will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, with at
least two reviewers. At the same time, by submitting an article, you
also commit to providing up to two reviews for other contributions.
We welcome inquiries ahead of submission time regarding the target
topic areas or any other questions you may have.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for chapter submission: April 15, 2026
Deadline for reviews: June 15, 2026
Deadline for revised chapter submission: August 15, 2026
If you have any questions, please let us know. We look forward to your
contributions!
Filip Miletić (Universität Stuttgart)
Fritz Günther (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Wei He (University of Exeter)
Aline Villavicencio (University of Exeter)
Sabine Schulte im Walde (Universität Stuttgart)

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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