Time: 14:00-15:00, April 11, 2024, 

Venue: Room 501, Mingde International Building

Speaker: Jacques Ives Dürrenmatt, Professor from Sorbonne University.

Host: Wang Zhichao, Lecturer from Department of French, School of Foreign Languages.

Abstract:

Sentences in French have to follow restrictions created by centuries of language evolution, which have even become stricter with the rise of French schooling since the 19th century. This lecture will first focus on the search for the ideal sentence in the works of famous writers, and find out different types of French sentences. Then, we will seek to explain the reasons and ways in which contemporary French writers choose sentence patterns compared to their predecessors, especially ancient French writers.

About the Speaker:

Professor, doctoral supervisor from Sorbonne University in France. He is dedicated to studying French philology, stylistics, poetics and the history of French linguistics. He has published more than 100 papers, 20 monographs, supervised more than 30 doctoral theses. He is also a member of the editorial board of Information grammaticale and other renowned French linguistics and literature journals.