Full Title: Workshop 'What is new in evaluative morphology?' in Word-Formation Theories VII / Typology and Universals in Word-Formation VI

Date: 25-Jun-2025 - 28-Jun-2025
Location: Kosice, Slovakia
Contact Person: Angeliki Efthymiou
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: http://kaa.ff.upjs.sk/en/event/45/word-formation-theories-vii-typology-and-universals-in-word-formation-vi

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2025

Final Call for Papers:

Deadline extension: April 15, 2025

Meeting Description:
Evaluation and its realization in grammar is a hotly debated domain in linguistic theory and has led to the publication of many important studies (e.g., that by Scalise 1984, 1988 inaugurating the field, Stump 1993, Dressler & Barbaresi 1994, Grandi 2002, Manova et al. 2023 to mention just a few). Amongst them, the Handbook of Evaluative Morphology edited by Nicola Grandi & Lívia Körtvélyessy in 2015 holds a prominent position, summarizing all major topics and theoretical advances in the field until then, shedding light on aspects that merit further investigation and analysis (e.g. Aktionsart and gradation in evaluative morphology) and providing a broad empirical coverage of the evaluative morphology in 52 under- or less-described languages representing forty-four genera and twenty-six language families. A decade after the publication of this seminal work, the question that naturally arises is where research on evaluative morphology is headed and what are the latest advances in the field.

To this end, aiming to capitalize on the latest developments in evaluative morphology, we welcome all theoretically- empirically- or methodologically based studies to evaluative morphology. Potential topics could include but are not limited to the followingː
(i) productivity and competition in evaluative morphological processes (suffixation, prefixation, compounding, reduplication, etc.),
(ii) synchrony and diachrony of evaluative morphology,
(iii) variationist and language contact aspects of evaluative morphology,
(iv) the relation of evaluation with other grammatical categories,
(v) new methods and/or approaches (acquisitional, experimental etc.) to the study of evaluative morphology,
(vi) new perspectives in the study of semantics and pragmatics of evaluation,
(vii) combinability of morphological elements and/or processes for the realization of evaluation.

Convenors:
Dimitra Melissaropoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Angeliki Efthymiou, Democritus University of Thrace

Organization:
This workshop is organized within the frame of Word Formation Theories VII & Typology and Universals in Word Formation VI.

Publication:
Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of the SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics.

References
Grandi, N. 2002. Morfologie in contatto. Le costruzioni valutative nelle lingue del Mediterraneo. Milano: Franco Angeli
Grandi, N. & L. Körtvélyessy eds. 2015. The Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Dressler, W. U. & L. M. Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics. Diminutives and intensifiers in Italian, German, and other languages. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Manova, S., Grestenberger L. & K. Korecky-Kröll eds. 2023. Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Scalise, S. 1984. Generative Morphology. Dordrecht: Foris
Scalise, S. 1988. The notion of ‘head’ in Morphology. In G. Booij, G. & J. van Marle, J. (eds.) Yearbook of Morphology 1, 229-245. Dordrecht: Foris
Stump, G. 1993. How Peculiar is Evaluative Morphology? Journal of Linguistics 29: 1-36.

If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please send an anonymous abstract of max. 500 words (excluding examples and references) to [email protected] and [email protected]. The deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2025.