20.563, Confs: General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Singapore

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Subject: 20.563, Confs: General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Singapore

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Date: 22-Feb-2009
From: Bee Chin Ng < mbcng at ntu.edu.sg >
Subject: Workshop on Loanwords in the Asian Context
 

	
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:59:39
From: Bee Chin Ng [mbcng at ntu.edu.sg]
Subject: Workshop on Loanwords in the Asian Context

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Workshop on Loanwords in the Asian Context 

Date: 09-Mar-2009 - 09-Mar-2009 
Location: Singapore, Singapore 
Contact: Aspahlela bte Ahmad 
Contact Email: maspahlela at ntu.edu.sg 
Meeting URL:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/Linguistics/Documents/Loanwords%20in%20the%20Asian%20Context%20Workshop%20Programme.pdf


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Loanwords in the Asian Context Workshop is organised by the Division of 
Linguistics and Multilingual Studies in the School of Humanities and Social 
Sciences, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Presenters at the 
workshop include James Matisoff, Robert Bauer, Cathy Wong, Uri Tadmor, KK luke,
Tan Ying Ying and Ng Bee Chin. Please visit our website for the detailed programme. 

Loanwords in the Asian Context Workshop

Organized by Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University

Date: Monday, 9 March 2009
Time: 9:15 am to 1:30 pm
Venue: Executive Seminar Room 4 (S3.1-B1-06)


Discussant: 	
Professor Emeritus James Matisoff, University of California, 
Berkeley


0915	
Welcome and Opening Address
Luke Kang Kwong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

09:30	
Loan-Verb: Loan-Noun Ratio as an Indicator of Degree of Bilingualism: 
The Case of English Loanwords in Hong Kong
Luke Kang Kwong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	
10:00	
Loanwords as Catalyst for Phonetic Change in the Hong Kong Cantonese 
Syllabary
Robert Bauer, Independent Scholar

10:30	
Grammatical Integration of English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
Cathy Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong	

11:00		
Tea Break 

11:30	
"Borrowed and Lost":  The Story of Malay Loanwords in Hokkien and 
Teochew 
Ng Bee Chin and Tan Ying Ying, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

12:00		
Tonal Allocation of Malay Loanwords in Teochew and Hokkien
Tan Ying Ying and Ng Bee Chin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

12:30		
Non-Malay Austronesian Loanwords in Aslian
Geoffrey Benjamin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

13:00		
Measuring the Borrowability of Lexical Meanings
Uri Tadmor, Director, Indonesian Office, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary 
Anthropology

For enquiries please contact Aspahlela  from the Division of Linguistics and 
Multilingual Studies on (65) 67904397 or email maspahlela at ntu.edu.sg







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