Niina Ning Zhang
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Occupation(s) | Researcher, professor of linguistics |
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Institutions | National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (2003-)
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Thesis | Syntactic Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese (1997) |
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Niina Ning Zhang (born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, PR China) is a theoretical linguist specializing in Mandarin Chinese syntax and semantics.
Education and career[edit]
Zhang obtained her M.A. degree in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University, Ph.D. degrees in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University and, in 1997, from the University of Toronto, Canada.[5]
In 1997-2003, she was a researcher in Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS). Now she is a professor of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University.[6] She has also taught linguistic courses in Shanghai International Studies University, University of Toronto, and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin.
Her research specialty is formal syntax, especially the syntax of coordinate constructions.[7] In her book Coordination in Syntax (2010 Cambridge University Press), she argues for four radical claims: (1) conjuncts are syntactically asymmetrical; (2) there is no independent syntactic category for coordinators; (3) Ross's (1967) Coordinate Structure Constraint is not a construction-specific syntactic constraint; (4) Across-The-Board Movement does not exist.
Main publications[edit]
Books and Ph.D. dissertations[edit]
- Zhang, N. 2013. Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
- Zhang, N. 2010. Coordination in Syntax. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series 123, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Schwabe, Kerstin and N. Zhang (eds.). 2000. Ellipsis in Conjunction. Tuebingen: Niemeyer.
- Zhang, N. 1997. Syntactic Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Toronto.
- Zhang, N. 1990. Chinese Slips of the Tongue and Models of Language Production. Ph.D. dissertation. Shanghai International Studies University.
Main journal articles[edit]
- Zhang, N. 2022. Defective Incorporating Verbs in Mandarin. Language and Linguistics 23 (2): 329-348.
- Zhang, N. 2022. Agentless Presupposition and Implicit and Non-Canonical Objects in Mandarin. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 51 (1): 81-104.
- Zhang, N. 2022. Kind-Level Predicates of Events Inside Another Predication. Studia Linguistica 76 (2): 315-353.
- Zhang, N. 2021. Pairing Degree-WH Clauses in Mandarin. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 42 (2): 121-160.
- Zhang, N. 2020. Two categorial issues of degree constructions in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 30 (3): 217-229.
- Zhang, N. 2020. External Degree Constructions in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 29 (4): 365-392.
- Zhang, N. 2020. Low predicate inversion. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 29 (2): 159-207.
- Zhang, N. 2019c. Appearance and Existence in Mandarin Chinese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 40 (2):101–140.
- Zhang, N. 2019b. Sentence-final aspect particles as finite markers in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 57 (5): 967–1023.
- Zhang, N. 2019a. Complex indefinites and the projection of DP in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 28: 179–210.
- Zhang, N. 2018. Non-canonical objects as event kind-classifying elements. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36 (4): 1395–1437.
- Zhang, N. 2017b. The syntax of event-internal and event-external verbal classifiers. Studia Linguistica 71: 266-300.
- Zhang, N. 2017a. Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax. Linguistics 55 (2): 371-411.
- Zhang, N. 2016b. Identifying Chinese dependent clauses in the forms of subjects. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25 (3): 275-311.
- Zhang, N. 2016a. Understanding S-Selection. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 37 (1): 56-73.
- Zhang, N. 2015c. The Morphological Expression of Plurality and Pluractionality in Mandarin. Lingua 165: 1-27.
- Zhang, N. 2015b. Functional Head Properties of the Degree Word Hen in Mandarin Chinese. Lingua 153: 14-41.
- Zhang, N. 2015a. Nominal-internal phrasal movement in Mandarin. The Linguistic Review 32 (2): 375-425.
- Zhang, N. 2014. Expressing Number Productively in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 52 (1): 1-34.
- Zhang, N. 2014. Summing quantities of objects at the left edge. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 12 (2): 33 - 57.
- Zhang, N. 2013. Encoding Unexpectedness by Aspect Inflection. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 39 (1): 23-57.
- Zhang, N. 2012. Projecting semantic features. Studia Linguistica 66 (1): 58-74.
- Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Same and ATB Constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54 (2): 367-399.
- Zhang, N. 2008. Gapless relative clauses as clausal licensers of relational nouns, Language and Linguistics 9 (4): 1005-1028.
- Zhang, N. 2008. Existential Coda Constructions as Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions. The Linguistics Journal 3 (3): 8-57.
- Zhang, N. 2008. Repetitive and Correlative Coordinators as Focus Particles Parasitic on Coordinators. SKY Journal of Linguistics 21: 295-342.
- Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Two Paired Dependency Constructions. Lingua 117 (12): 2134-2158.
- Zhang, N. 2007. Root merger in Chinese compounds. Studia Linguistica 61 (2): 170-184.
- Zhang, N. 2007. A syntactic account of the Direct Object Restriction in Chinese. Language Research 43 (1): 53-75.
- Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntax of English Comitative Constructions. Folia Linguistica 41: 135-169.
- Zhang, N. 2006. Representing Specificity by the Internal Order of Indefinites. Linguistics 44 (1): 1-21.
- Zhang, N. 2000. Object Shift in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28 (2): 201-246.
- Zhang, N. 1998. The Interactions Between Lexical Meanings and Construction Meanings. Linguistics 36 (5): 957-980.
- Zhang, N. 1998. Argument Interpretations of the Ditransitive Construction. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 21: 179-209.
- Zhang, N. 1997. The Avoidance of the Third Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6: 293-338.
Main book chapter articles[edit]
- Zhang, N. 2017b. Verbal classifiers. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. Vol. 1: 627-631.
- Zhang, N. 2017a. Adpositions. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. Vol. 1: 116-122.
- Zhang, N. 2012. Countability and numeral classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. In Diane Massam (ed.), Count and Mass Across Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 220-237.
- Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Relational-Nominal Second Constructions in Chinese. Yuyanxue Luncong 39. Beijing: Peking University Press: 257-301.
- Zhang, N. 2007. On the Categorial Issue of Coordination. Lingua et Linguistica 1.1. Lulu Press: 7-45.
- Zhang, N. 2002. Movement within a Spatial Phrase. In: Hubert Cuyckens and Guenter Radden (eds.), Perspectives on Prepositions. Linguistische Arbeiten. Band 454. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer: 47–63.
References[edit]
- ^ "Outstanding Research Award". Ministry of Science and Technology. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "Ministry of Education Academic Award". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "Award for Junior Research Investigators". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "PhD Alumni". Department of Linguistics. 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
- ^ "Niina Ning Zhang". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- ^ "Niina Ning Zhang". scholar.google.com.tw. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
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