[徵稿] NAMED: 5th International Conference on the Neglected Asp
https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/2943/
Full Title: 5th International Conference on the Neglected Aspects of Motion
Event Description
Short Title: NAMED
Theme: Motion Event Expression in the Nominal Domain
Date: 21-May-2026 - 22-May-2026
Location: Trois-Rivières, Canada
Contact Person: Lise Fontaine
Meeting Email: named@uqtr.ca
Web Site: https://named26.wordpress.com
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology
Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2025
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the 5th NAMED conference which will be held at the
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Canada. Please see our website
for details and the CFP ( https://named26.wordpress.com ). We are especially
excited to have the following plenary speakers join us for NAMED 2026 :
Denis Bouchard, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Bert Cappelle, Université de Lille, France
Eric Corre, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France
Liesbet Heyvaert, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sally Rice, University of Alberta, Canada
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Call for papers
Researchers are invited to submit abstracts which relate to the broad area of
motion event description and/or more specifically to the theme of the nominal
encoding of motion. Related typological and diachronic studies are also
welcome. See below for the full CFP and for details on how to submit an
abstract.
IMPORTANT DATES
‧ Abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2025
‧ Notification of acceptance: January 12, 2026
‧ Conference: May 21-22 2026
Abstract submission
We invite abstracts for NAMED 2026 for 30-minute oral presentations (20 minute
talk + 10 minutes for questions) or for poster presentations.
Clearly indicate the research aim(s); methods and data and (anticipated)
results.
State whether the abstract presents work for an oral presentation or a poster
presentation.
Include 5 keywords.
Please submit your abstract in .doc and .pdf) via EasyAbs.
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NAMED/
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding references).
The language of the conference is English
For questions related to the conference, please contact us at : named@uqtr.ca
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In 2017, the first NAMED conference started from the observation that there
has been a thirty-year period of extensive research exploring the typological
distinction between Verb-framed and Satellite-framed languages. Whether the
Path is expressed by the verb or a satellite gave rise to abundant literature
from a variety of perspectives including those in descriptive linguistics and
in psycholinguistics.
As Talmy (2017) noted there is a full range of parameters of Motion
description which has been left somewhat unexplored:
“[…] research on the Motion typology has mainly addressed only Manner from
the full set of framing relations, and only Motion from the full set of macro-
event types. And research on fictive motion has addressed mainly coextension
paths out of the full set of path categories. But researchers can use their
strengths in diverse languages and empirical methods to examine the remaining
parameter values”. (Talmy, 2017: 1).
The NAMED conference (Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description) is a
forum for discussing these unexplored aspects of motion-event description.
It goes without saying that motion is not solely expressed through verbs and
particles, but it is important to emphasize this point; languages employ a
variety of strategies for encoding motion, utilizing morphological and
lexicogrammatical resources in distinct ways. NAMED 2026 will serve as a forum
to address a relatively unexplored means of motion event encoding: the
nominal encoding of motion. This topic has been largely overlooked in the
community of space and motion studies and raises broader questions about the
differences between nouns and verbs, particularly the special status of
deverbal nouns. These differences may be absent or unmarked in some languages,
others may exhibit two parallel or competing strategies driven constraints
that have yet to be fully explored.
By broadening the discussion to include nominal structures, we wish to uncover
how nominal motion event expression relates to the verbal domain and how the
typological distinctions observed in the verbal domain behave in the nominal
domain. Are they maintained, transformed, reduced? The new exploration of
motion in the nominal domain could help to refine our understanding of motion
verb constructions across languages.
While we want to encourage submission on the nominal expression of motion
event, we also welcome papers on all sort of devices used to encode motion
event, not only verbs but also adverbal and adnominal markers with which they
interact. We also acknowledge that the conference will be taking place on the
traditional territory of the Algonquin Nation and we therefore especially
welcome papers that report on motion events in one or more indigenous
languages.
Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
* In what contexts are nominal structures preferred over verbal structures for
encoding motion events, and what pragmatic functions do these nominal
structures serve?
* Do motion nouns inherit verbal properties (such as argument structure and
aspectual features) in their semantic structure?
* How is motion expressed in languages with greater lexical flexibility
compared to those with more rigid structures? Does a rich morphology
compensate for reduced lexical flexibility?
* Can the typological distinctions between verb-framed and satellite-framed
languages be observed in the nominal domain?
* How do representations of manner and path in the nominal domain compare to
those in the verbal lexicon? For example, do we find aspectual shifts? What
constraints or restrictions does the nominal domain impose?
* What role do nominal elements play in representing motion. Can infinitives
and gerunds be considered as occupying intermediate stages of dynamicity
between verbs and nouns?
* What do diachronic perspectives reveal about the pathways through which
motion nouns develop?
* How do verbal and nominal means of encoding motion interact in and across
languages?
* How do nominal structures interact with other elements of discourse to
convey complex motion events?
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