International Conference: New Words and Linguistic Purism (NWLP)
Innsbruck, 25-26 October 2018
The conference is concerned with the following questions:
- How are new words accepted or resisted in different languages?
- To what extent are borrowings resisted more strongly than new words
resulting from the application of word formation rules?
- To what extent are sense extensions more acceptable than words with a
new form?
- How are the problems of terminology and translation solved in
different languages?
Abstracts of 500-800 words are invited by 15 May 2018.
Keynote speakers:
Carla Marello
Angela Ralli
For more details about the conference and the abstract submission
procedure, please consult our website:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/nwlp/
