讲座时间：2019年5月27日（周一）下午16:00-17:30

讲座地点：华南农业大学外国语学院院楼402报告厅

讲座专家：胡波博士

内容简介：Modal auxiliary verbs are a type of verb which expresses speaker’s attitude and opinion towards a proposition or an event, and their syntactic features have attracted much interest recently. This paper investigates the syntactic feature of modal auxiliary verbs in different languages, such as semantic constraints, the deletion of complement clause, constituent movement, psedo-cleft construction, temporal and aspect markers, and analyzes relevant hypotheses of modal auxiliary verbs under the framework of generative grammar. It finally revises the raising and control hypothesis of modal auxiliary verbs based on feature checking hypothesis.

专家简介：

胡波，博士，副教授，澳门城市大学外语教育与研究中心主任。主要研究方向为理论语言学和英语教育。主持过多项省部级人文社科基金项目，在《外语教学与研究》、《现代外语》、《当代语言学》等重要刊物发表论文多篇，多次在国际会议宣读论文。

Dr. Hu Bo is associate professor in General Education Department, and director of Foreign Language Education and Research Center, City University of Macau. His current research interest mainly includes theoretical linguistics and English education. He chaired several projects sponsored by national and provincial fund for philosophy and social sciences, and he published research articles in such important journals as Foreign Languages Teaching and Research, Modern Foreign Languages, and Contemporary Linguistics. And he presented research articles in quite a few international conferences.