Speaker:Dr Lise Fontaine (Cardiff University)                                                          

Topic: A case study of wordformation in English: BREXIT

Time:2:30-4:10, Dec. 5 (Monday), 2016

Venue: Room 607, College of ForeignStudies, South China Agricultural University

Chair: Professor HuangGuowen

Bio statement:

Lise Fontaine is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language andCommunication Research at Cardiff University (Wales).  She lectures mainlyon functional grammar, word meaning, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics.Her research interests include functional grammar theory and, morespecifically, the study of referring expressions as realised in the nominalgroup. In addition to publishing 15 articles and book chapters, she is the authorof Analyzing English Grammar:A systemic-functional introduction, CUP (2012); co-author of Referring in Language: Anintegrated approach, CUP (in preparation) and co-author of The Oxford Companion to the EnglishLanguage, 2nd ed. (OUP, in preparation). She has also co-edited thefollowing four volumes: SystemicFunctional Linguistics: Exploring Choice (CUP,2013); Choice in Language (Equinox,2013); Perspectives fromSystemic Functional Linguistics: An Appliable Theory of Language (Routledge, in preparation) and The Cambridge Handbook of SystemicFunctional Linguistics (CUP,in preparation).