Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet 

The Department of English and American Studies and the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology of the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” and the Center for Research in Terminology and Translation of the University of Lyon are pleased to announce that an international conference entitled “New Territories in Word-formation” will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 30-31 May 2013.

We hope the forum will bring together scholars interested in sharing their insights into corpus-based, contrastive, cross-linguistic and practical approaches to word-formation.

We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers: Pavol Štekauer, Šafárik University of Košice, Slovakia; Lívia Körtvélyessy, Šafárik University of Košice, Slovakia; Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; Ingo Plag, Universität Siegen, Germany.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist