Workshop on Naming Strategies
Naming Strategies in Word Formation and Syntax: A Contrastive Perspective
The workshop took place on the 6th and 7th of october 2008 at Freie Universität Berlin. It was organized by Matthias Hüning and Barbara Schlücker from the Department for Dutch Linguistics in collaboration with Alex Klinge and Henrik H. Müller from the Copenhagen Business School (Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics). We were glad to welcome as keynote speakers:
Heinz J. Giegerich
- Geert Booij (Leiden)
- Johan De Caluwe (Ghent)
- Heinz J. Giegerich (Edinburgh)
The workshop was part of our DFG-project Wörter und Phrasen and addressed naming strategies and word formation in a contrastive perspective. For more information, see the call for papers.
Publication
The results of the workshops have been published as thematic issue of Word Structure:Barbara Schlücker & Matthias Hüning (2009, eds.): Words and Phrases – Nominal expressions of naming and description. Thematic issue Word Structure 2.2.
Programme & Abstracts
| Monday, October 6th | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Introduction |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | H. Giegerich: How robust is the compound-phrase distinction? Stress evidence from bi- and tripartite constructions in English |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | G. Zifonun & L. Gunkel: Classifying adjectives in European languages |
| 12:00 - 12:40 | M. Schäfer: A-N Nominals between Naming and Description: Enlightenment from Mandarin? |
| Lunch | |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | A. Klinge: Are nominal compounds a purely formal affair? Evidence of the role of configurational morphology in Germanic compounding |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | S. Bücking: How do phrasal and lexical modification differ? |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | F. Masini: Phrasal words, compounds and phrases: a constructionist perspective |
| Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | L. Gaeta: Naming instruments as agents |
| 16:40 - 17:20 | V. Gast: How to say ‚the x who Vs Ns’ |
| 18:00 | Conference dinner |
| Tuesday, october 7th | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | J. De Caluwe: AN-compounds and AN-phrases in their onomasiological context |
| 10:30 - 11:10 | S. Borgwaldt: New names for new things |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | H. Høeg Müller: Spanish phrasal compounds |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | K. Van Goethem: A comparative study of A-N compounds and lexicalized phrases in Germanic and Romance languages |
| Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | C. Aranda Gutiérrez: ‚Naming’ in Spanish Food Market: the Role of Analogy |
| 14:40 - 15:40 | G. Booij: When phrases are used as names: formal properties of lexical phrases |
| Closing Session & Coffee |
Abstracts can be found here. [pdf]