CfP Polycategoriality, polyfunctionality and polysemy in the adverbial domain

Editors: Olivier Duplâtre, Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Pierre-Yves Modicom
ELAD-SILDA, Studies in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Vol. 11, 2025(1)

Full call: https://publications-prairial.fr/elad-silda/index.php?id=1285

The 11th issue of ELAD-SILDA, to be published in March 2025, will deal with questions of polyfunctionality, polysemy and/or polycategoriality in the adverbial domain. Among the relevant questions, one could mention: Is the distinction between adverbs and adjectives, adverbs and prepositions, etc. tenable from a cross-linguistic point of view? Is the functional opposition between verbal head and adverbial modifier really more solid than the traditional classification of parts-of-speech when it comes to the expression motion events? Can we really draw a sharp line between high and low adverbs? How should we distinguish between functional polysemy, heterosemy and semantic under-determination in the adverbial domain?

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Papers of 8,000 to 20,000 signs (including empty spaces) are welcome, dealing on any aspect of the call in any language. The languages of publication will be French, English and German. Guidelines for authors can be found here:

https://publications-prairial.fr/elad-silda/index.php?id=939

The papers can be submitted to elad-silda AT univ-lyon3.fr until January 15th, 2024. Authors are kindly asked to send a working title and a few lines of presentation of their future paper by December, 15th, to the same address.

Über Pierre-Yves Modicom

Professeur des Universités en linguistique des langues germaniques, Faculté des Langues, université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Assesseur licences LEA Directeur du département d'allemand