LINGUIST List 26.587
Wed Jan 28 2015
Calls: English; General Linguistics/ Lexis (Jrnl)
Editor for this issue: Andrew Lamont <alamontlinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Jan-2015
From: Laure Gardelle <laure.gardelle
ens-lyon.fr>
Subject: English; General Linguistics/ Lexis (Jrnl)
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Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English
Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2015
The e-journal Lexis is planning to publish its 10th issue, devoted to 'the conceptualisation of number in the English lexicon', in 2016. Main editor: Laure Gardelle (ENS de Lyon).
Call for papers: The conceptualisation of number in the English lexicon
Number, understood here in a narrow sense as the contrast between 'one' and 'more than one', spontaneously conjures up a grammatical category, which in English distinguishes between the singular and the plural. For several theoretical frameworks, the main meaning of the singular is to refer to one entity, and that of the plural to refer to more than one [Corbett 2000: 4]. This is illustrated, for example, by the pair magazine / magazines. In this case the plural is a feature which is expressed in discourse in the form of an inflection added to a minimal lexical form, which brings its own contribution to the denotation, viz. the value 'more than one'.
The concepts of 'one' and 'more than one', however, cut across the grammatical categories of singular and plural. This is what the present issue wishes to explore, in order to describe how 'one' and 'more than one' are conceptualised in the lexicon. We welcome contributions on the following topics (the list is non-exhaustive):
-lexical plurals
-collective nouns, aggregates and other nouns denoting internal plurality
-more generally, the use of nouns followed by of will be of interest (e.g. a bit of)
-the relationship between grammatical number and massification or abstraction
-some nouns are morphologically invariable, either systematically so (e.g. sheep) or only in contexts of hunting or conservation (e.g. elephant) ([Allan 1976], [Corbett 2000]). It could be interesting to study the relationship between the lack of plural morphology and the conceptualisation of the animal, taking the variety of cases into account - Allan shows that some nouns are more likely than others to have no final -s in these contexts (e.g. hyena vs. teal).
-the place of prefixes in the conceptualisation of number
-recategorisation effects
For further detail for each topic and for a fuller version of the CFP, please visit our website:
http://lexis.univ-lyon3.fr/spip.php?article209 Manuscripts may be written in French or in English, and should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 10 lines in French and in English, as well as a list of the relevant key words. They should be sent to the Editor of Lexis (lexis
univ-lyon3.fr) as email attachments (Word and pdf), and will be refereed by two members of the international evaluation committee. Manuscripts may be rejected, accepted subject to revision, or accepted as such. There is no limit to the number of pages.
Abstracts and articles will be sent via email to lexis
univ-lyon3.fr
- January 2015: call for papers
- June 2015: deadline for sending in abstracts to lexis
- September 2015: Evaluation Committee's decisions notified to authors
- November 2015: deadline for sending in papers
- November-December 2015: proofreading of papers by the Evaluation committee
- January-February 2016: authors' corrections
- March 2016: deadline for sending in final versions of papers.
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