Blog CRC1646

The two PhD students Amelie Ewald (C01) and Alexandra Filimonova (C04) attended the 22^nd International Morphology Meeting (IMM), this year organized by the ELTE Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest from June, 18^th to June, 21^st. The IMM is a bi-annual conference with a long tradition spanning more than 40 years and held alternately in Budapest and Vienna. It is dedicated to a wide range of morphological topics encompassing various methodological approaches and languages. This year’s focus was on atypical morphology, which brought to attention morphological phenomena that challenge traditional theoretical boundaries.

The program consisted of a large number of talks, which were grouped together in the main session and six thematically different workshops, as well as a poster session, all together interspersed with inspiring keynote talks by Greville Corbett (University of Surrey), Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Wolfgang U. Dressler (University of Vienna) and Sabrina Bendjaballah (Nantes Université). The contributions provided valuable insights into current developments in the field and brought together various perspective in lively discussions.

Amelie Ewald (C01) and Alexandra Filimonova (C04) held their talks respectively in the workshops “How Atypical is Non-Concatenation?” and “Morphological Processing in Children and Older Adults”. Amelie’s talk involved collaborative work with Dilara Balaban, Jana Häussler and Joana Cholin from C01, while Alexandra drew on joint work with Katharina J. Rohlfing, Julia Settinieri and Luyao Wang from C04 as well as Lisa Giesselbach and Anna-Lena Scherger from TU Dortmund. While Amelie presented findings from the project’s series of novel word-formation elicitation tasks under the scope of atypical word-formation strategies in German adults and underlying individual preferences, Alexandra introduced first results from the project’s picture-naming study on word-formation strategies in mono- and multilingual preschool children in case of lexical gaps. It was valuable to discuss the experimental data from a morphological viewpoint. In particular, the analysis from the perspective of atypicality usefully supplemented previous reflections on the nature of originality in creative language use.

The conference provided both PhD students with helpful feedback, offered an opportunity for exchange, and opened up potential publication opportunities. Budapest as a city enchanted the two of them with its stunning architecture and captivated them with its rich history and culture.

View on Budapest with Danube © Amelie Ewald

Conference Venue: Great Hall in the City Center of Budapest © Amelie Ewald

Amelie Ewald (C01) © Alexandra Filimonova

Alexandra Filimonova (C04) © Amelie Ewald