Day 1: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
13.30-14.00
Registration
14.00-18.00 (with breaks)
Invited Teacher: Stefan Hartmann (HHU Düsseldorf)
Pre-workshop tutorial: Visualizing morphological data
Day 2: Thursday, 14 March 2024
09.00-09.15
Registration
Session 1
09.15-09.30
Convenors: Francesca Masini (University of Bologna), Muriel Norde (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Kristel Van Goethem (F.R.S.-FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain)
Greetings and introduction
09.30-10.30
Invited Speaker: Bert Cappelle (Université de Lille, UMR 8163 STL)
Evaluative judgements in morphemes, words, and contexts
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
Session 2 – Chair: Kristel Van Goethem
11.00-11.30
John Hotson (University of Edinburgh)
KNIVE-knives: Lexical cloning and inflection
11.30-12.00
Barbara Schlücker (Universität Leipzig)
Like – a morphological evaluative loan marker in German?
12.00-12.30
Carmen Mellado Blanco (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) & Pedro Ivorra Ordines (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
The division of labour between morphology and syntax. A case study of a constructional idiom in Spanish
12.30-14.00
Lunch
Session 3 –Chair: Muriel Norde
14.00-14.30
Angeliki Efthymiou (Democritus University of Thrace), Dimitra Melissaropoulou (Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki) & Madeleine Voga (University Paul-Valéry)
Cumulation of diminutive markers in Modern Greek: an eye on speakers’ perspective [online]
14.30 -15.00
Benito Trollip (North-West University)
Morphological evaluative constructions in Afrikaans: the cases of diminutive-adverbs and iminutives [online]
15.00-15.30
Perpetual Usenbo & Lendzemo C. Yuka (University of Benin)
Evaluatives in Ẹdo: conceptual and methodological challenges [online]
15.30-16.30
Coffee break & Poster session
- Valentina Benigni (Roma Tre University) & Svetlana Slavkova (University of Bologna) – The role of the Russion nedo- approximative prefix in nonce nouns formation
- Beatrice Bernasconi (Roma Tre University) – Between similarity and approximation: the case of Russion -podobnyj
- Daniel Ebner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – Quite -hkO: a corpus analysis of the Finnish derivational suffix -hkO
- Ivan Lacić (University of Bologna) – Competition in a paradigm of Italian intensifying prefixes: annotation scheme and preliminary findings
- Flavio Pisciotta (University of Salerno) – Evaluative (half-)prefixes in Italian: the expression of approximation through morphemes of half quantity
- Martina Verdelli (University of Bergamo) –New perspectives on intensification: a corpus-based study of compounds with turbo- in Italian, French and Spanish
- Catherine Shee Hei Wong (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) – Morphological development in a bimodal bilingual hearing child of deaf parents: an experimental study
Session 4 – Chair: Francesca Masini
16.30-17.00
Maria Rosenberg & Linda Sandström (Umeå University)
Evaluative constructions in Swedish with a verbal base [online]
17.00-17.30
José A. Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante) & Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa)
From spearhead to crackhead: unraveling the morphosemantic development of -head through a network of constructions
17.30-18.00
Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier University), Milena Belosevic (Bielefeld University), André Blessing (University of Stuttgart), Tana Deeg (University of Stuttgart), Annerose Eichel (University of Stuttgart) & Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart)
Merci Jens and Villen-Spahn. The evaluative semantics of personal name compounds in German
18.30
Social dinner
Day 3: Friday, 15 March 2024
Session 5 – Chair: Bert Cappelle
09.30-10.00
Stefania Spina (University for Foreigners of Perugia) & Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bozen/Bolzano)
Morphological and syntactic adjective intensification in L2 Italian and German in a multilingual context
10.00-10.30
Fabio Montermini (CLLE, CNRS & Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
Same source, different outcomes. The superlative suffixes -issime vs. -(i)ssimo in contemporary French
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
Session 6 – Chair: Stefan Hartmann
11.00-11.30
Caterina Mauri & Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna)
Temporal, aspectual and modal evaluation of reference
11.30-12.00
Ronald P. Schaefer (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) & Francis O. Egbokhare (University of Ibadan)
Approximation and Intensification in Edoid
12.00-12.30
Closing of the workshop
