Colloque : "Lexical Blending", Lyon, 10-11/06/10

[Madeleine L.]

NTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEXICAL BLENDING

Organized by the CRTT / Lyon 2 research group of the University of Lyon

10-11 June 2010

Grand amphithéâtre, 18 quai Claude Bernard, 69007 Lyon


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PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, June 10

8.45 am: registration / coffee

9.30 am: opening remarks

10 am: Laurie Bauer (Wellington): "Lexical blending: core and periphery"

11 am: Paula López Rúa (Santiago de Compostela): "Beyond All Reasonable
Transgression: Lexical Blending in Alternative Music"

11.30 am: Isabel Balteiro (Alicante): "Blends in Proper Names in English
Fiction for Young Audiences"

12 noon: lunch

2 pm: Ewa Konieczna (Rzeszów): "Lexical blending in Polish: the result
of the internationalization of Slavic languages"

2.30 pm: Keumsil Kim Yoon (Wayne, NJ): "Lexical Blending in Language
Contact: A Study of Korean-English Hybrid Blends"

3 pm: Angela Ralli & George J. Xydopoulos (Patras): "Blend formation in
Modern Greek"

3.30 pm: coffee break

4 pm: Christian Bassac (Lyon): "On the semantics of blends"

4.30 pm: Suzanne Kemmer (Houston) & Louis Wei-lun Lu (Taipei):
"Exploring Lexical Blending: A Cognitive Grammar Account"

5 pm: poster session

- Margarida Basilio (Rio de Janeiro): "Expressive lexical blends:
productivity and creativity in lexical constructions"

- Ada Böhmerová (Bratislava): "Dynamic Impact of Borrowing English
Blends on Word-Formation Principles in Slovak, With Some
Cross-Linguistic Considerations"

- Silvia Cacchiani (Modena): "Motivation in unfamiliar morphological
blends from names and nouns"

- Camiel Hamans (Strasbourg): "How unique are blends"

- Arnaud Léturgie (Cergy-Pontoise): "French dictionaries of portmanteau
words: an attempt of typology of a complex and unique type of dictionary"

- Ramón Martí Solano (Limoges): "Blends of American origin from the
1960s and 1970s: their nature and lifespan"

- Ewa Tomaszewicz (Wroclaw): "OO Faithfulness in the phonological
structure of blends"


Friday, June 11

9 am: Stefan Gries (Santa Barbara): "Quantitative corpus data on blend
formation: psycho/cognitive-linguistic perspectives"

10 am: Paul Cook & Suzanne Stevenson (Toronto): "Computational methods
for automatically determining the source words of English lexical blends"

10.30 am: coffee break

11 am: Christine Smith (Caen): "The phonaesthetics of blend-words: the
role of sound symbolism and metonymy in lexical blending in English"

11.30 am: Outi Bat-El & Evan Cohen (Tel Aviv): "Stress in English
Blends: A Constraint-based Analysis"

12 noon: lunch

2 pm: Gordana Lalic-Krstin & Sabina Halupka-Resetar (Novi Sad): "The
order of constituents in Serbian blends: some experimental data"

2.30 pm: Adrienne Lehrer (Tucson, AZ) & Csaba Veres (Bergen): "Two
Experiments on Processing Lexical Blends"

3 pm: Tetyana Kulish (Postdam), Arpita Bose (Windsor) & Susanne
Borgwaldt (Braunschweig): "Ukrainian Neologisms"

3.30 pm: coffee break

4 pm: Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros (Auckland): "Why portmanteaus are not
subtractive"

4.30 pm: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia (Milan) & Fabio Montermini
(Toulouse): "Morphological and prosodic properties of reduced compounds"

5 pm: Elke Ronneberger-Sibold (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): "Blending between
grammatical competence and universal cognitive abilities: Contrasting
blends in German, Chinese, and Farsi"

5.30 pm: closing remarks