The University of Macau (UM) said in a statement on Thursday that its Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently held the Macao Humanities Forum, which had School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris Chair Prof. Hilary Chappell as the speaker.
The event was the third lecture of the Macao Humanities Forum for the 2023/2024 academic year, the statement noted, and was attended by on-site and online participants.
Prof. Chappell was welcomed by FAH Assistant Dean Joaquim Kuong (鄺耀基) in his speech and highlighted the significant role of Macau’s multilingual ecology in linguistic research, while FAH Assistant Prof. Xu Yuhang presented Prof. Chappell’s achievements in the linguistics field, according to the statement.
The statement pointed out that Prof. Chappell, who is also an Academia Europaea member, gave a lecture titled “Semantic Shifts and Areal Typology in Asia”, which focused on “the common patterns of lexical polysemy and grammaticalisation pathways found in the languages of Mainland East and Southeast Asia (MESEA)”.
The statement added that Prof Chappell’s lecture provided case references for the study of linguistic typology and theoretical guidance for related research. A Q&A session was also held.
The statement noted that the forum aims to invite renowned scholars in different fields of the humanities to share their latest research findings with students and faculty. The previous editions covered a range of subjects such as history and linguistics.
This recently taken handout photo provided by the University of Macau (UM) on Thursday shows Prof. Hilary Chappell delivering her lecture.
