On September 18 and 19, the Open Texture Workshop took place at Bielefeld University, where Daniel Gutzmann participated with his contribution Mechanisms for semantic creativity: What we can learn from diachronic semantics.

The workshop was organized by Christian Nimtz, Julia Zakkou, Raphaela Thenen, and Steffen Koch as part of subproject B05 Open texture as a source of semantic creativity of the SFB 1646 Linguistic creativity in communication at the University of Bielefeld. In addition to Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld), other presentations were given by Céline Henne (Bologna), Dan Lassiter (Edinburgh), Derek Ball (St Andrews), Justin D'Ambrosio (St Andrews), and Mark Bowker (Bielefeld).