Open call for volume proposals - Phraseology and Multiword Expressions

[Carlos Ramisch]

Phraseology and Multiword Expressions (PMWE) is a book series at Language Science Press, a born-digital scholar-led open access publisher in linguistics.

The se­ries pub­lishes high-qual­i­ty books about conventionalized, idiosyncratic combinations of words. Within the field of phraseology such word combinations are sometimes called phrasemes, while the computational linguistics community uses the term multiword expressions for them. Various subtypes of such word combinations are of interest, such as multiword compounds, multiword terms, multiword named entities, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, idioms, collocations, formulaic speech, proverbs, etc.

The series is open to different approaches to create a forum for an interdisciplinary and cross-framework exchange of research results, including but not limited to the following subdisciplines:

• Computational linguistics and natural language processing

• Computer science

• Corpus linguistics

• Lexicography

• Psycholinguistics

• Theoretical linguistics

We welcome volume proposals addressing all topics related to theoretical, computational, and empirical approaches to phraseology including:

• Linguistic properties and typologies of multiword expressions, especially in multilingual frameworks

• Digital lexical resources including multiword expressions

• Description and processing of multiword expressions in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g., CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD)

• Identification and annotation of multiword expressions in corpora and treebanks

• Multiword expressions in machine translation and other end-user applications

• Multiword expressions and lexical innovation

• Diachronic studies and semantic change in multiword expressions

• Representation and evaluation of multiword expressions in language models (e.g., LLMs) and text generation systems

All contributions should be in English.

To submit a volume proposal, please follow the guidelines at the series home page:

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe

Volumes published so far:

• Voula Giouli, Verginica Barbu Mititelu (eds.) Multiword expressions in lexical resources: Linguistic, lexicographic, and computational perspectives. 2024.

• Victoria Beatrix Fendel (ed.) Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?. 2024.

• Aleksandar Trklja, Łukasz Grabowski (eds.) Formulaic language: Theories and methods. 2021

• Sabine Schulte im Walde, Eva Smolka (eds.) The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective. 2020. 

• Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk (eds.) Representation and parsing of multiword expressions: Current trends. 2019.

• Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze (eds.) Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop. 2018.

• Manfred Sailer, Stella Markantonatou (eds.) Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective. 2018.