We are delighted to announce that the 2nd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2024/2025) will be held on 29 October 2024. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Prof. Heiko Narrog as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on the topic “Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization and Scope”. Prof. Narrog is a professor at Tohoku University, Japan. He received two PhDs from Ruhr University Bochum and Tokyo University respectively. His research interests include linguistic typology, modality, grammatical change, especially grammaticalization, and the study of semantic maps. His publications include the monographs Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of Clause (Benjamins, 2009), Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2012), and co-edited volumes with Bernd Heine Grammaticalization (Oxford University Press, 2021), as well as The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (Oxford University Press, 2011/2021), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Prof. Heiko Narrog

Topic: Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization and Scope

Date: 29 Oct 2024 (Tue)

Time: 14:00 – 15:30*

Venue: On-Site (E21B-G016) / ZOOM

Language: English (Simultaneous interpretation into Mandarin will be provided on Zoom)

*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis

Please register for the forum by 27 Oct 2024 (Sun) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KjCmsA0bbEnccC