LINGUIST List 23.5364: Calls: Computational Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Psycholinguistics/ Verbum (Jrnl)

Full Title: Verbum 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Morphology; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2013 

Neoclassical Compounding

Special issue of the Verbum journal

Guest Editors: Stéphanie Lignon and Fiammetta Namer

Among all the available morphological processes for lexical creation in languages, the neoclassical compounding involves specific models. Compounding is a constructional process during which at least two base lexemes are combined in order to construct a new lexeme (tea bag). Two types of compounding may be distinguished: standard compounding (also called popular) on the one hand which involves the modern vocabulary (porte-bagage), and neoclassical compounding on the other hand which involves lexemes borrowed from ancient languages, often Greek and Latin (anthropophage).