!NEW! Presentations from the workshop can be found here:
Lívia Körtvélyessy
Maria Flaksman
František Kratochvíl, George Saad, Maksim Vyzhlakov, Benidiktus Delpada
The Department of British and American Studies,
Faculty of Arts, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia has a long tradition
in organization of conferences. The tradition of events devoted to
word-formation and typology started in 2005. Since 2009, Košice has become a center of discussions on word-formation theories
and typology that are organized every third year. The last issue of the
conference was planned for June 2021 but because of the Covid pandemic, the
organizers decided to re-schedule the event for June 2022.
You can find more information about Word-Formation Theories IV / Typology and Universals in Word-Formation V here.
I would like to draw your attention to the
list of plenary speakers who accepted our invitation.
Besides traditional plenary speeches and Conference presentations, there
are also two workshops accompanying the Conference. One of them is focused on onomatopoeia:
If we ask two linguists of
divergent theoretical backgrounds about the nature of the noun cuckoo, we might
face two different worlds. While in the English linguistic tradition, this word
is categorized as onomatopoeia, its Slovak equivalent kukučka is at most of
onomatopoeic origin but definitely not onomatopoeia itself. The related
onomatopoeia kukuk is treated as an interjection. These contradictions suggest
that the comprehension of onomatopoeia is not universal. Theories of
onomatopoeia (if available) seem to be, similarly to onomatopoeia itself,
language specific. In addition, there is no in-depth analysis of the relation
between onomatopoeia and other iconic phenomena, such as ideophones,
phonosthemes, etc. Any description of the state-of-the-art in this area should
take into account two basic issues – the relation of onomatopoeia to the
phenomenon of sound symbolism and its status with regard to Saussurean concept
of arbitrariness.
The workshop’s aim is to discuss various approaches to any of the
above-mentioned topics. Papers focused on a cross-linguistic comparison of the
phenomena in question are most welcome. If you are interested in participation, please send an abstract (300
words max.) to Livia Körtvélyessy (livia.kortvelyessy@upjs.sk) by April 15, 2022.
For more information, you can get in touch at the same email address or visit the LINGUIST List website.