CFP of 60th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols “The language system, morphemics and derivational morphology”

The Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies at the University of Latvia invites submissions of abstracts for the 60th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols “The language system, morphemics and derivational morphology”, to be held on March 20–21, 2025.

The focus of the 2025 conference is on the grammatical and lexical system of language, its architecture, description and interpretation from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, with a particular emphasis on morphemics and word formation.

Participants are invited to present their research focusing on, but not limited to, the following main thematic areas:

1) methodological approaches to morphemic analysis, problem cases;

2) allomorphism, its different facets and manifestations;

3) morpheme polyfunctionality;

4) borderline cases in delimiting morphemes, words and constructions;

5) the formal and semantic diversity of derivational morphology, incl. various non-straightforward cases;

6) links and relationships between word formation and inflection;

7) derivational morphology and derivational motivation, cases of asymmetry;

8) derivational models and types, derivational semantics;

9) creativity in word formation;

10) word formation in terminology.

We expect submissions from different standpoints (e.g., general, areal, typological, cognitive, functional, contrastive, quantitative, etc.) and theoretical frameworks with material from Latvian and other languages.

Conference languages – Latvian, Lithuanian and English.

Conference format – in person.

Presentations – 20 minutes (15-minute talk, 5 minutes for questions).

Conference fee – 60 EUR. The fee covers coffee breaks.

Abstracts – 250–500 words (excluding references) plus the list of references.

Applications (containing information regarding the name, surname and academic affiliation of the participant(s) – a university, a research institute, etc.) and abstracts should be sent to [email protected] by January 27, 2025, with the reference “the 60th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols”. Each individual may submit up to two abstracts: one as sole or first author, one as second author.

Notifications of acceptance will be given no later than February 10, 2025.

The conference is organized under the auspices of the Latvian Research Council’s project “Database of Latvian Morphemes and Derivational Models (DLMDM)” (No. lzp-2022/1-0013)