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The Indirect Object in English—When your grammar book fails you

论坛主讲：曹学新---加拿大渥太华卡尔顿大学应用语言学教授

澳门理工学院访学教授

论坛时间：2012年3月2日下午3：30

论坛地点：图书馆报告厅

主办单位：温州大学校友办

承办单位：温州大学外国语学院

Lecture Topic Introduction

The Indirect Object in English

-when your grammar book fails you

The lecture will address some practical observations in the studies of Indirect Object in English, which, as we have been aware, most of current University English grammar classes in China have failed to bring to students’ attention. One of these observations is this: when two alternating patterns of an Indirect Object, say, Susan gave John a CD versus Susan gave a CD to John, is available in theory, a choice between these two forms of indirect object is far from arbitrary in practice for the native speaker of English. Starting with this particular grammatical observation, we will introduce to Chinese learners of English a range of practical issues regarding the so-called double object structure in English grammar.

Cao, Xuexin

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced College English

British Council & Shanghai International Studies University

MA in English Language & Literature

Shanghai International Studies University，Shanghai, China

MA in Applied Linguistics

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

PhD in Linguistics

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Teaching Experience (2000-present)

2000-2002 Lecturer in linguistics

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

2003-2004 Assistant professor in Applied Linguistics

Carleton University，Ottawa，Canada

2004-2006 Associate Professor in Linguistics & Translation

University of Macau, Macao, China

2006-2009 Professor in Applied Linguistics

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

2009-Prst Visiting associate Professor in English Linguistics

Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China

On-going Research Project and Presentation

Research Title: What Syntactic-Semantic interface theories can inform the theoretical construction of Chinese-English contrastive and translation studies

Sponsor institution: Macao Polytechnic Institute

Results accomplished so far:

What is the Basic Passive in Chinese—a Perspective from Chinese-English Translation Studies. Presented at Hawaii International Conference on Education, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA. January 4-8，2011.