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Date: 26-Jun-2026
From: José A. Sánchez Fajardo [jasanchez at ua.es]
Subject: ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies - "Special Issue: Creativity and Extravagance in English Evaluative Morphology" (Jrnl)


Journal: ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies
Issue: Creativity and Extravagance in English Evaluative Morphology
Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2027

Thematic Issue 2028: Creativity and Extravagance in English Evaluative
Morphology
Guest Editor(s): Andrés Muñoz García (University of Alicante) & José
A. Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante)
ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies is an
open-access, annual, peer-reviewed journal in literary, cultural, and
linguistic studies published both in print and online under the
auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw,
Poland. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, DOAJ, CEEOL, MLA, BazHum,
EBSCO, MIAR, Index Copernicus, ERIHPLUS, Sherpa Romeo, and included in
the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers.
The editors encourage scholars from across the academy to explore and
provide their unique insight within the suggested thematic focus of
Creativity and Extravagance in English Evaluative Morphology.
Ever since Scalise’s (1984) seminal research on evaluative morphology,
scholars have increasingly examined how morphemes act as evaluative
operators and how these interpretations arise from specific
cognitive-semantic frameworks. Significant contributions have
categorized these models through morphopragmatic functions, such as
diminution (Dressler and Merlini Barbaresi 1994), intensification
(Rainer 2015), and approximation (Masini, Norde and Van Goethem 2023).
Rather than resulting from arbitrary semantic shifts, these functions
generally emerge through systematic cognitive transitions, rooted in
the meanings of the stems to which the morphemes are attached. In
transitioning across cognitive dimensions (for instance, from
diminution to endearment [as in doggie]; from approximation to
pejoration [as in nice-ish; see Amiot and Stosic 2022; Sánchez Fajardo
2022]; and from metonymization to pejoration [as in smart-ass]),
evaluative morphemes in English are inclined to undergo semantic
changes within the interplay of productivity, creativity, and
extravagance (Eitelmann and Haumann 2022a; Koliopoulou and Walker
2024). A by-product of these changes is what Mattiello (2023) defines
as “transitional morphology,” where morphemes straddle categorical
boundaries, as seen in the emergence of combining forms (e.g., -holic
in chocoholic) and affixoids (e.g., -head in crackhead; Mattiello
2023; Sánchez Fajardo and Mattiello 2025). In her monograph, Mattiello
(2023, 18) notes that extravagant morphology, understood as
morphological phenomena that violate specific constraints or “cannot
be accommodated within traditional morphological accounts,” goes
beyond the concept of creativity as a “trigger for language variation
and change” (Eitelmann and Haumann 2022b, 2). In this sense, Trousdale
and Norde (2025, 240) further observe that extravagance operates as an
interpersonal strategy, wherein “a speaker is negotiating some aspect
of her persona with her interlocutor” and where the linguistic
behavior “is done for social or psychological effect.” Applying this
claim to evaluative morphology, the question of whether extravagance
and creativity depend on the entrenchment of these cognitive
transitions remains a compelling one.
In this Thematic Issue (TI) of Anglica. An International Journal of
English Studies, we aim to examine the intersection of morphological
transitionality, creativity, and extravagance. We contend that, by
identifying instances of creative or extravagant morphosemantic
variations, we can better address the semantic and cognitive
motivations underlying evaluative tendencies. Consequently, this
volume foregrounds questions of cognitive-semantic change,
productivity, and semantic extension, offering new insights into
evaluative operations within the broader scope of word formation.
Thus, the volume is organized around four primary research questions:
1.      To what extent are creative or extravagant word-formation
models intrinsically linked to evaluative transitions?
2.      How are these transitions shaped by the multi-layered
intersection of pragmatics, syntax, and morphology?
3.      Do these shifts originate from universal cognitive frameworks
(such as the cognitive transition from diminution to endearment) or
are they language-specific?
4.      How do interpersonal strategies and sociolects drive
linguistic creativity, and how do evaluative morphemes function as
context-dependent tokens within specific situational environments?
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 - Creativity and extravagance at the interface of evaluative
affixation and compounding.
 - Creative word-formation resulting from cognitive transitions,
pragmatic shifts, or processes of grammaticalization.
 - Investigating gradience, affixoid formation, and the fluid
transition from free to bound morphemes.
 - Evaluative morphemes as pragmatic markers and investigations into
the “expressiveness gap” hypothesis.
 - The emergence of evaluative neologisms, productivity constraints,
and the roles of blocking and analogy.
 - The role of metaphor, metonymy, and prototype effects in semantic
recategorization and trait transfer.
 - English evaluative morphology in a typological context and the
global dissemination of forms such as -gate or -zilla.
Papers should be of 6,000 to 8,000 words (maximum) and of
high-quality, lively writing, showing evidence of original research,
which will address the propositions put forward above.
Prospective contributors are invited to send the following information
to andres.munyoz at ua.es and annaredzioch at uw.edu.pl by March 2027: (a)
Authors’ full names, (b) a professional bio of up to 100 words, (c)
professional affiliation, (d) the title of your manuscript, and (e) an
abstract of your chapter (300 words max.).
The timeline for the TI is as follows:
1)      Deadline for submission of abstracts: end of March 2027
2)      Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstracts: 15 April
2027
3)      Blinded manuscripts sent for external review: 31 October 2027
4)      Ongoing blinded, peer reviews: From 1 December 2027 to 15
February 2028
5)      Final version of articles: Due 1 April 2028
6)      Tentative publication date of TI: September 2028
All papers will be double-blind peer reviewed. Submitted papers should
be original and not under consideration or published elsewhere, and
should be formatted according to the guidelines provided in our style
sheet.
Important note: Acceptance of the abstract and full paper does not
ensure acceptance/publication of the manuscript. The final decision
rests on the peer reviewers and the journal editors.
References:
Amiot, Dany, and Dejan Stosic. 2022. “Evaluative morphology: From
evaluation to approximation and semi-categorization.” Clear and
Approximate Categorization. A crosslinguistic Perspective. Ed. Hélène
Vassiliadou and Marie Lammert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
53–94.
Dressler, Wolfgang U., and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. 1994.
Morphopragmatics. Diminutives and intensifiers in Italian, German, and
other languages. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Eitelmann, Matthias, and Dagmar Haumann, eds. 2022a. Extravagant
Morphology: Studies in Rule-Bending, Pattern-Extending and Theory
Challenging Morphology. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Eitelmann, Matthias, and Dagmar Haumann. 2022b. “Introduction:
Extravagance in morphology.” Extravagant Morphology: Studies in
Rule-Bending, Pattern-Extending and Theory Challenging Morphology. Ed.
Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. 1–18.
Grandi, Nicola, and Livia Körtvelyessy. 2015. “Introduction: Why
evaluative morphology?” The Edinburgh handbook of evaluative
morphology. Ed. Nicola Grandi and Lívia Körtvélyessy.  Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press. 3–20.
Koliopoulou, Maria, and Jim Walker. 2024. “Exploring Creativity and
Extravagance: The Case of Double Suffixation in English.” Languages 9:
88.
Masini, Francesca, Muriel Norde, and Kristel Van Goethem, eds. 2023.
Approximation in morphology. Special issue of Journal of Word
Formation 7(1).
Rainer, Franz. 2015. “Intensification.” Word-formation: An
international handbook of the languages of Europe. Ed. Peter Müller,
Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen, and Franz Rainer. Berlin/New York: De
Gruyter. 1339–1351.
Scalise, Sergio. 1984. Generative morphology. Dordrecht: Foris.
Trousdale, Graeme, and Muriel Norde. 2025. “On the relationship
between linguistic creativity and change in morphological
constructions.” English Language and Linguistics 29: 238–251.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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