講演会のお知らせ
これもshort noticeですが,内容が面白そうなのでupしておきます。基本的には立教や早稲田のものと一緒のような気もしますが...。(UG)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20120809/1344491291
講演会のお知らせ (明治大学大学院 国際日本学研究科)
Dr. Geoffrey Leech 講演会
日時:10月15日(月)18:00〜19:30
場所:明治大学和泉校舎 メディア棟M305教室
(井の頭線明大前駅より徒歩5分。メディア棟は門を入ってすぐ左側の建物です。)
講演者:Dr. Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University)
タイトル:
Growth and decline: how grammar has been changing in recent English
要旨:The process of grammaticalization is associated with recent increases of frequency in English - e.g. the increasing use of the progressive aspect and semi-modal verbs such as be going to and have to. On the other hand, some modal auxiliaries and the passive have declined. I will ask why do such changes (both of increase and decrease) happen? In exploring this theme, I will refer to corpus linguistic findings based on diachronic corpus resources.