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第二届河南大学语言学术周

（下半场）

暨2021年“海外高端专家系列讲座”

（ Elizabeth Closs Traugott专场）

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河南大学语言学术周下半场在众多师生的期待下于5月31日成功拉开序幕。为拓展广大师生的国际视野，营造良好的学术氛围，外语学院特邀美国著名语言学家Elizabeth Closs Traugott教授为广大师生带来五场“海外高端专家系列讲座”。本次系列讲座的主题是“构式化和语法化”（Constuctionalization and Grammaticalization）。Traugott教授曾任职于加州大学伯克利分校、斯坦福大学；曾担任过国际历史语言学会（ISHL）、美国语言学会（LSA）和国际英语语言学会（ISLE）的主席；并于2019年获得了国际语用协会（IPrA）颁发的John J. Gunperz终身成就奖。Elizabeth Closs Traugott教授的主要研究领域为历史句法学、语义学、语用学、主观化、构式化及语法化等。

2021年5月31日早8点，Traugott教授以“构式语法及其语言演变中的基本原则(Some basic principles of construction grammar and of work on language change)”为题，在Zoom直播平台及其腾讯转播平台作了首场讲座。来自全国各地高校的专业教师和研究生等逾300人聆听了此次讲座。

讲座伊始，外语学院院长杨朝军教授致欢迎辞，并简要介绍了Traugott教授的教育经历、研究领域及学术成就。同时对她能在百忙之中抽时间为学院师生作线上报告表达了真诚的感谢和热烈的欢迎。

随后，Traugott教授系统介绍了本讲的基本内容，主要有三个部分。第一部分指出本系列讲座的重点关注构式路径下的语言演变研究、构式化和语法化的互补关系研究、构式化和主观化的在思考等；由于构式化理论是认知语言学的分支，第二部分简要回顾了从认知语言学、构式语法、基于使用的模型、历史语言学，到语言演变机制的发展历程；Traugott教授在第三部分强调需要区分语言演变中语法化和构式化的两个功能观，一个是关注语言演变中的具体语言现象本身，另一个则是要阐释这些语言现象及其演变过程，本系列讲座主题属于后者。

Traugott教授对于学术的热爱及其渊博的知识深深的感染着同学们，大家纷纷表示受益匪浅并期待着后续讲座的精彩内容。

The 2nd International Academic Linguistics Seminar (Speaker-2 Elizabeth Closs Traugott) and International Distinguished Lectures (IDL-2021) were Successfully Held by School of Foreign Languages

On May 31, 2021, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Professor of Stanford University, delivered her first lecture to the teachers and students of School of Foreign Languages via Zoom and Tencent Meeting at 8 a.m. She is scheduled to give five lectures about Constructionalization and Grammaticalization from May 31th to June 4th, 2021. The first lecture entitled “Some basic principles of construction grammar and of work on language change” was hosted by Prof. Yang Chaojun, Dean of School of Foreign Languages. Over 300 postgraduates and faculty members attended the lecture with interest and excitement.

Professor Traugott earned her B.A. in English language at Oxford University in 1960 and her Ph.D. in English language at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Her research interests include historical syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicalization, social historical linguistics and linguistics and literature, etc. She was a pioneer in general historical syntax, and is best known for her work on grammaticalization, subjectification, and constructionalization, etc. Dissatisfaction with generative models led her to collaborate with Paul Hopper (Carnegie Mellon University) and develop a functional approach to grammaticalization, understood as the change whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions (Hopper and Traugott 1993). Professor Traugott held a Guggenheim fellowship in 1983 and a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1983-84. She was President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics (ISHL) in 1979, of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 1987, and of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) in 2007-2oo8. She is currently a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2019 she was awarded the John J. Gumperz Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

During the lecture, Professor Traugott systematically introduced the basic content of this lecture, which mainly consists of three parts. Part I points out that this series of lectures focuses on the constructional approach to language change, the complementary relationship between constructionalization (Cxzn) and grammaticalization (Gzn), and rethinking of constructionalization and of (inter)subjectification; since Constructionalization is a branch of cognitive linguistics, Professor Traugott briefly reviews the development process from cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, use-based models, historical linguistics, to mechanisms of language change in Part II; Professor Traugott also aims to distinguish two main functional perspectives on language change: grammaticalization and constructionalization. One has to do with the phenomenon:  changes that we think we see in the data, results of processes that we can only infer; while the other has to do with research practice and the framework in terms of which we interpret the data. These lectures will be mainly about research practice and frameworks for interpretation.

In sum, all the audience were deeply moved by Professor Traugott's passion for academics and profound knowledge as well, and they all look forward to the following four lectures.

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