Are ungrammatical sentences encoded with meaning?

Academic Lecture Sponsored by School of Foreign Languages

 

 

Time: April 19, 2021 (Monday) 2:00pm -- 3:30

Venue: Room 208, Chongyuan Building

topic: Are ungrammatical sentences encoded with meaning?

Speaker: Professor Ning Chunyan( Hunan University)

 

 

Abstract

Quite a number of ungrammatical sentences are usually fabricated in linguistic studies. And those ungrammatical sentences like grammatical counterparts are underpinned with due meaning referrals rather than meaningless gibberish. The difference between grammatical sentences and ungrammatical sentences lies in that the meaning of the former are appropriate expressed whereas the meaning of the latter are inexpedient. New ideas and approaches will pop up on the basic of the understanding of ungrammaticality.

Speaker

NING Chunyan visited Department of Linguistic & Philosophy as a Fulbright scientist at MIT, 1984-84, obtained his MA degree in linguistics at Cornell University in 1987, his PhD. Degree in linguistics at UC Irvine. Afterward, he has been working as Professor in generative linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Hunan University, City University of HongKong, Chinese University of HongKong and Tianjin Normal University. His concentration lies in the areas of syntax, biolinguistics, language acquisition and language disorder. He is the leading researcher of three state-funded projects: Formal Linguistics, Introduction to Biolinguistics and Assessment Scale of the Linguistic Competence of Preschool Mandarin-speaking Children, his publications include Research to Establish the Validity, Reliability and Clinical Utility of a Comprehensive Language Assessment of Mandarin,Journal of Auditory 2015 (co-authored), Semantic Acquisition of Mandarin Children and Generative Grammar in Mainland China in Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (2014) Brill, among others.

 

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