【Talk&Lecture】The Two Cents of a Linguist: Mandarin VerbNet and Ask-me-Why：Lecture by Professor Liu Meijun from City University of Hongkong
Date: 10th December, 2019
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Room 201, The East 5 Building, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University.
【Speaker Introduction】：Professor Liu Meijun is currently the director, professor and PhD supervisor of the Department of Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong. She is also an academician of the Hong Kong College of Humanities, an academic consultant of the Chinese Dictionary Center of the National Language Committee, an academic steering committee member of the Chinese Vocabulary and Semantics Conference, and a cooperative project with the Hong Kong Research Fund Committee.
【Lecture Abstract】：Can linguist research help language teaching? I try to translate the research results of Chinese grammar and semantics into two resource websites that can be used for teaching, and I hope to contribute two cents for linguists! The first is to construct the “Chinese Verb Net of Meaning” (Mandarin Verbnet http://mega.lt.cityu.edu.hk/~yufechen/#/): The research method is based on framework, and is used by construction. It follows the frame semantics proposed by linguist Charles J. Fillmore and the construction grammar theory proposed by A. Goldberg, referring to FrameNet with English verbs as the research object, and paying attention to the lexicalization characteristics of Chinese verb vocabulary, and systematically analyzing the grammatical differences and semantic types of Chinese verbs.
