NSM Semantics Masterclass

Empirical universals in semantics: lexicon and grammar
Convenors: Prof. Wim Stokhof (IIAS) and Prof. Arie Verhagen (ULCL)

Instructors: Dr Cliff Goddard and Prof. Anna Wierzbicka

The goal of the masterclass is to enable talented graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and senior professional linguists to have intensive intellectual interaction with two leading figures in the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) approach to cross-linguistic semantics - Anna Wierzbicka, the originator of the theory, and her colleague and collaborator Cliff Goddard.

Since its inception some 30 years ago, and especially over the past decade, the natural semantic metalanguage approach has undergone steady and significant theoretical development in tandem with an ever-widening range of descriptive applications to lexical, grammatical, and discourse phenomena across many languages. Though much remains to be done and many aspects remain controversial, the natural semantic metalanguage approach is the most developed and empirically well-grounded framework for cross-linguistic semantics on the contemporary linguistic scene.

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Tien jaar IIAS!

Op 17 mei 2003 organiseert het International Institute for Asian Studies een festival ter gelegenheid van het tienjarig jubileum van het instituut. Het festival wordt gehouden in het museum van volkenkunde in Leiden (gratis toegang) en bestaat uit workshops, speaches, muziekvoorstellingen en filmvertoningen. 

Voor meer informatie kijk op: www.iias.nl/festival 

IIAS workshop

Convenor: Prof. Kenneth J. Hammond

Wang Shizhen (1526-90) was one of the most significant figures in the cultural and intellectual life of Ming dynasty China. In his lifetime and through the beginning of the 17^th Century his ideas and opinions carried great weight amount the literati elite which dominated public life. He was involved in literary theory, the development of drama, gardens, connoisseurship and the emerging art market, and may other aspects of literati cultural proactive. He was also engaged in the political factionalism and infighting, which characterised the late Ming.

Around Wang Shizhen there were circles of followers and associates who shared some or all of his views, as well as foes who rejected his ideas and opposed his activities. Virtually every major figure of the middle and later 16^th Century was linked to Wang Shizhen as either ally or enemy.

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IIAS Workshop

Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Convenor: Prof. Hein Steinhauer (IIAS Extraordinary Chair)

Papers presented at ISMIL are concerned with the Malay/Indonesian language in any of its varieties. In addition to the standardized versions of Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia, papers are particularly welcome dealing with non-canonical isolects such as regional dialects of Malay and Indonesian, contact varieties, and other closely related Malayic languages. Of special interest are papers dealing with language contact. Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions. Presentations at ISMIL are delivered in English, as is befitting an international symposium.

ISMIL is a yearly event and has developed into the major conference of its kind at which both linguists from Malay speaking countries and from centres of Malay study elsewhere in the world meet.

Voor meer informatie kijk op: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/

IIAS Workshop

Leiden, the Netherlands

Convenor: Dr R.J. Barendse

The workshop focusses on the role of intra-Asian trade in the rise of European empire in the Western Indian Ocean and brings together a distinguished group of specialist working on the British, the Dutch, the French and the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean.

Voor meer informatie kijk op: www.iias.nl