Appel à com: International confeference on lexical blending

[Madeleine L.]

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEXICAL BLENDING (ICLB 2010)
Organized by the CRTT-Lyon 2 research group of the University of Lyon
Venue: University of Lyon, France
Dates: 10-11 June 2010
Conference website: http://lexicalblending.wordpress.com/
Conference email: lexical.blending@univ-lyon2.fr
Contact: Vincent Renner
Extended deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 October 2009
Notification of acceptance: mid-December 2009



The renewed attention devoted to lexical blends (also sometimes called portmanteau words after Lewis Carroll) in the last fifteen years has resulted in a scattered body of work spanning several linguistic fields and research traditions. The aim of this international conference is to bring together linguists working on blending in various languages and different frameworks in order to encourage debate and cross-fertilization of ideas. Papers on the description of lexical blending in understudied languages, on the place of blending in morphological theory, and comparative work on two or more languages will be particularly welcome.
We are pleased to announce that Laurie Bauer (Victoria University of Wellington) and Stefan Gries (University of California at Santa Barbara) have accepted our invitation to give keynote presentations at the conference.
Accepted papers will be considered for publication after the conference.



Selection committee: Dany Amiot (Lille), Pierre Arnaud (Lyon), Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv), Laurie Bauer (Wellington), Mario Brdar (Osijek), Stefan Gries (Santa Barbara), Adrienne Lehrer (Tucson), Paula López-Rúa (Santiago de Compostela), Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros (Auckland), Elke Ronneberger-Sibold (Eichstätt), Pavol Stekauer (Kosice), Anna M. Thornton (L’Aquila).
Organizing committee: Vincent Renner (chair), Pierre Arnaud, Pascaline Dury, François Maniez.