The Editor-in-Chief of the journal Linguistics gave a presentation at the Department of Linguistics.

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

Attending the presentation were researchers, lecturers, postgraduate students and doctoral candidates from the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Linguistics, Hanoi Linguistics Association, etc.

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

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

Unlike previous studies that described the grammaticalization of receptive modal words as unidirectional transformations from lexical to modal meaning, the research by Auwera et al. has shown complex multidirectional transformations of these words during grammaticalization into modal words, as well as their post-modal transformations.

Present at the presentation were Professor Tran Tri Doi, Professor Nguyen Duc Ton, Professor Nguyen Van Khang, Associate Professor Nguyen Hong Con, and others. They asked questions and participated in discussions on various related issues such as the approach, theoretical basis, source materials, etc. Overall, Vietnamese scientists received satisfactory insights from Professor Johan van der Auwera.

Earlier, during a meeting at the Faculty of Linguistics, the Faculty Dean and Professor Johan van der Auwera exchanged information on the teaching and research situation in linguistics in both faculties and agreed to continue maintaining relations and explore possibilities for future cooperation.