Editor-in-Chief of Linguistics magazine gives a presentation at the Faculty of Linguistics

At the invitation of the Faculty of Linguistics, on the occasion of a business trip to Asian countries and Vietnam, on October 30, 2009, Professor Johan van der Auwera came to give a scientific presentation at the Faculty of Linguistics.

Attending the presentation were researchers, lecturers, graduate students and doctoral students from the Faculty of Linguistics, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Linguistics, Hanoi Linguistics Association,...

Prof. Johan van der Auwera is currently working at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp - Belgium, and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Linguistics based in Berlin and New York.

At the presentation, Prof. Johan van der Auwera presented the latest research results of himself and his colleagues on the semantic and functional transformation of receptive modals in European and Southeast Asian language corpora, related to words such as to get in English or duoc in Vietnamese.

Unlike previous studies that described the grammaticalization of received modal words as unidirectional transformations from lexical meaning to modal meaning, the studies by Auwera et al. have shown complex multidirectional transformations of these words during the grammaticalization into modal words as well as their postmodal transformations.

Present at the presentation, Prof. Dr. Tran Tri Doi, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duc Ton, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khang, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hong Con... asked questions and participated in discussions on many related issues such as approaches, theoretical basis, sources of documents, etc. In general, Vietnamese scientists received satisfactory explanations from Prof. Johan van der Auwera.

Previously, during the meeting at the Faculty of Linguistics, the Faculty Board and Prof. Johan van der Auwera exchanged information about the situation of teaching and researching linguistics in the two faculties and agreed to continue to maintain the relationship and seek cooperation possibilities in the future.