Monthly Archives: March 2016
CHILL! Talk 6 April Zou Ting: Processing of lexical tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin
22 March: Film screening: The Road from Hainan
22 March: The Road from Hainan
Can one woman put up a successful fight against sexual abuse? How do Chinese local authorities react to unconventional methods of protest? ‘The Road from Hainan’ portrays activist Ye Haiyan as she tries to seek justice for six abused elementary school girls.
Time
15:00 – 17:15 hrs
Venue
Lipsius
Room 11
Leiden
LeidenAsiaCentre in cooperation with Movies That Matter present a film screening of ‘The Road from Hainan’, followed by a discussion with with Wang Nanfu, the director of the film & Teng Biao, human rights lawyer.
Programme
15:00 Opening and Introduction by Anne Sytske Keijser, Lecturer in modern Chinese, Chinese literature and film, Department of Chinese Studies, Leiden University.
15:15 Viewing of the movie.
16:35 Discussion with Wang Nanfu and Teng Biao, human rights lawyer, moderated by Maghiel van Crevel, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Leiden University.
17:15 End of meeting.
CHILL! talk 23 March Lin Jing (UvA): “Non-referentiality in child Mandarin”
CHILL!
Chinese Linguistics in Leiden
Upcoming talks:
23 March 2016 (15:15-16:30, De Vrieshof 1/1, Leiden)
Lin Jing (UvA): “Non-referentiality in child Mandarin”
Abstract: When we say John saw a girl yesterday we know that there must be a girl in the world that John saw yesterday. The DP a girl here is referential. In sentences like John probably saw a girl yesterday, the same DP does not need to have a referential import: this sentence is also true if there is no girl in the world that John saw yesterday. Clearly, generic DPs (at least in English) can be referential, and they may also be non-referential (except for the unicorn, which is non-referential). But there are existentials that are referentially deficient, which means that they must be used in contexts in which they are not forced to refer, such as in the scope of probably. One example here is shénme ‘a/some’ in Mandarin. In this talk, I present results collected from 91 monolingual Mandarin children in an elicited imitation task in which they were examined on their knowledge of the non-referential existential shénme ‘a/some’. I will show how Mandarin children acquire the referential deficiency of shénme without explicitly knowing that shénme wánjù ‘a toy’, for instance, can only be non-referential–unlike its bare counterpart wánjù ‘a toy’.
The rest of the Spring Program (all on Wednesdays 15:15-16:30, De Vrieshof 1/1, Leiden)
6 April 2016: Zou Ting (Leiden): “Processing of lexical tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin”
20 April 2016: Wu Juan (Leiden): “Contact-Induced Grammatical Creations: Through the Lens of Chinese Buddhist Translations”
4 May 2016: Hu Han (Leiden): “A Sociolinguistic Study on Rhoticity in Beijing Mandarin”
18 May 2016: Wang Man (Leiden): “Experimental approach to language production of Mandarin”
9 March Guqin performance by Ms. Lyu Jiaoyue
Ms. Lyu Jiaoyue, an accomplished guqin performer from New York, will visit Leiden on Wednesday 9 March 2016. The Confucius Institute of Leiden University will organize a get-together event for her in which she will give an introduction of the instrument guqin and give a performance.
Time: 13:00-15:00 p.m.
Venue: Lipsius Building room 308