City University of Hong Kong Dep
Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics
Research Seminar
A Comparative Study of Grammatical
Categories in Generative Grammar
and Parts of Speech
in Traditional Grammar
Presented by
Prof. Xu Jie
National University of Singapore and Huazhong Normal University
Date: 3 July 2007, Tuesday
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Venue: B7603 (Lift 3, 7/F, Blue Zone), Academic Building, CityU of HK
Language: Putonghua (普通话)
Abstract
This is a comparative study of grammatical categories in generative grammar and parts of speech in traditional grammar. Although the problems of parts of speech in the traditional sense have never been a core issue in generative grammar, its claims and arguments about the distinction between lexical an functional categories, and that between overt lexical items and empty categories are highly insightful. What is even more significant is its cross category generalization of three distinctive features [+/-N] [+/-V] [+/-F] articulated by generative grammarians since it not only may define the eight major grammatical categories but also function to describe the relationships of those categories.
Speaker
Xu Jie has been teaching at the National University of Singapore since he obtained his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland-College Park in 1993. Dr Xu now is a research professor at the Research Centre for Languages and Language Education of the Central China Normal University, the associate editor-in-chief of Chinese Linguistics, and a Yellow River Scholar (Research Professor) of Henan University. His research interests include syntactic theory, Chinese grammar and semantics, language acquisition and language education. He has authored four books and forty some journal articles. EMAIL: xujie007@gmail.com
