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Topic: Seminar 學術講座: Geoffrey Benjamin on 2th December 2002 (Monday)
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 Posted - 25/11/2002 : 08:44:39
Geoffrey Benjamin
Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics
Institute of Chinese Linguistics
Seminar
by
Geoffrey Benjamin
General Studies Unit, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Temiar Verbal Morphology: a Naturalistic Perspective
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Date: 2nd December 2002 (Monday)
Venue: B7603 (CTL Multi-purpose Room), City University of Hong Kong
Abstract
The author's account (1976) of the grammar of Temiar (a Mon-Khmer language of
Peninsular Malaysia) has occasioned a growing secondary literature concerned
with the formal morphological analysis of its complex patterns of prefixation,
infixation and reduplication. In this presentation, I shall comment only
briefly on these later morphological studies. Instead, I shall (a) offer a
revised paradigm of Temiar verbal inflection, and (b) suggest that this
can be understood more straightforwardly by treating the associated
morphological patterns as the iconic encodings of various meanings that
matter to Temiar speakers.
About the Speaker
Geoffrey Benjamin is currently Associate Professor in the General Studies
Unit at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has previously held
positions in Sociology at the National University of Singapore and in
Prehistory & Anthropology at the Australian National University. Since
completing his PhD thesis on Temiar Religion at Cambridge University in 1967,
he has continued to research in the fields of religion, social organisation,
language (including linguistics) and socio-cultural theory, with special
attention to the Malay World and Southeast Asia. His published linguistic
works include studies of the Mon-Khmer (Aslian) languages of Peninsular
Malaysia and of the relations between grammar and the sociocultural framework
in different varieties of Malay.
Enquiries: 2788-8705
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