Glasgow to have new arts and humanities graduate school
Doctoral researchers in Scotland are set to benefit from a “unique” GBP 16.8 million initiative launched 1 October 2014 to help train the next generation of professionals working in the arts and humanities. The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH), the University of Glasgow says, is the world’s first national graduate school for the arts and humanities, servicing 1,500 PhD students in the arts and...
Korean Tense and Aspect in Narrative Discourse, by EunHee Lee
Korean Tense and aspect in Narrative Discourse, by EunHee Lee (ISBN-10 1872843433 / ISBN-13 978187284343) is number six in Saffron Korean Linguistics Series. Buy this book | View digital version. Korean Tense and aspect in Narrative Discourse argues for a discourse-based treatment of the temporal and aspectual categories in Korean through the quantitative analysis of corpus data, providing a systematic semantic analysis of those...
China Institute launched at SOAS
The University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has launched a China Institute, a response to the growing interest in the East Asian country and its numerous facets that offer opportunities for new research. The institute cited more than 40 affiliated academics working across the various SOAS departments who are involved with “interdisciplinary, critically informed research and teaching on China.”...
Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb
This is the first book on Korean grammaticalization written in English. About Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb: Cross-linguistically, verbs denoting existence have been one of the most fertile sources for the development of grammatical markers (eg, English ‘be’). In the history of the Korean language as well, the verb is(i)- (the old form of iss-) has participated in the emergence of eleven different...
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