Niina Ning Zhang PhD, Associate Professor

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Graduate Institute of Linguistics National Chung Cheng University 168 University Rd., Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 62102 Taiwan Email: LngnzATccu.edu.tw Fax : +886-5-2721654 Phone : +886-5-2428263 張寧 國立中正大學語言學研究所 嘉義縣民雄鄉大學路168號 台灣 62102 CV

Current Teaching

Syntax · Advanced Syntax · Semantics · Morphology · Chinese Grammar · Issues in Minimalist Syntax · The Syntax of Coordination · The Syntax of Complex Predicate Constructions · Biological and Psychological Foundations of Human Language

Monographs

Zhang, N. Forthcoming. Coordination in Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF

Schwabe, Kerstin and N. Zhang (eds.). 2000. Ellipsis in Conjunction. Tuebingen: Niemeyer.

Recent Papers

Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Same and ATB Constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54 (In Press). PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Encoding Exhaustivity. Ms. National Chung Cheng University. PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. The Syntax of Relational-Nominal Second Constructions in Chinese. Ms. National Chung Cheng University. PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Explaining the immobility of conjuncts. Studia Linguistica, (to appear). PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Gapless relative clauses as clausal licensers of relational nouns, Language and Linguistics 9 (4): 1005-1028. PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Existential Coda Constructions as Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions. The Linguistics Journal 3 (3): 8-57. PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Repetitive and Correlative Coordinators as Focus Particles Parasitic on Coordinators. SKY Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 21. In Press. PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Relativized Parallelism in Mandarin Chinese Natural Coordination. Language Research 44 (1): 121-163. PDF (old version: PDF Aug. 26, 2007)

Zhang, N. 2008. 現代漢語的複雜存現句. 語言之文化面向. 國立中山大學 (Ed.). PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. Universal 20 and Taiwan Sign Language. Sign Language and Linguistics 10 (1): 55-81. PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. Root merger in Chinese compounds. Studia Linguistica 61 (2): 170-184.

Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Two Paired Dependency Constructions. Lingua 117 (12): 2134-2158.

Zhang, N. 2007. 自然聯合結構與連接項平行關係的相對性.《东方语言学》2007 第二期 PDF

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. 2007. On the Categorial Issue of Coordination. Lingua et Linguistica 1 (1): 7-46.

Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Split Antecedent Relative Clause Constructions. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 5(1): 19-47.

Lin, Jo-wang & Niina Zhang. 2006. The Syntax of the Non-Referential TA ‘it’ in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics 7 (4): 991-1016.

Zhang, N. 2006. On the Configuration Issue of Coordination. Language and Linguistics 7 (1): 175-223.

Zhang, N. 2006. Representing Specificity by the Internal Order of Indefinites. Linguistics 44 (1): 1-21.

Zhang, N. 2005. Comitative Constructions in Chinese. In: Chuan-ren Ke (ed) Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. 353-368.

Zhang, N. 2005. Juggling Singular and Plural Pronouns. DOC

Zhang, N. 2004. Move is Remerge. Language and Linguistics 5 (1). 189-209.

Zhang, N. 2004. Against Across-The-Board Movement. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 30: 123-156.

Zhang, N. 2003. On the Pre-Predicate Lai [come] and Qu [go] in Chinese. In: Jie Xu, Donghng Ji, and Kim Teng Lua (eds.) Chinese Syntax and Semantics: Language Science and Technology Monograph Series, Vol. 1. Prentice Hall. 177-201. PDF

Zhang, N. 2002. Movement within a Spatial Phrase. In: Hubert Cuyckens and Guenter Radden (eds.) Perspectives on Prepositions. Linguistische Arbeiten. Band 454. Max Niemeyer: Tuebingen. 47-63.

Zhang, N. 2002. Island Effects and Episodic Eventualities in Chinese Topicalization. In D. Hole, P. Law, and N. Zhang (eds.) Linguistics by Heart: in honor of Horst-Dieter Gasde. ZAS-Berlin.

Zhang, N. 2001. On Nonprimary Selectional Restrictions. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 26, 219-243. PDF

Zhang, N. 2001. The structures of Depictive and Resultative Constructions in Chinese. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 22, 191-221. PDF

Zhang, N. 1999. Chinese de and the de-construction. Syntaxis 2, 27-49. PDF

Zhang, N. 1998. Argument Interpretations of the Ditransitive Construction. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 21, 179-209. PDF

Zhang, N. 1998. The Interactions Between Lexical Meanings and Construction Meanings. Linguistics 36 (5): 957-980.

Zhang, N. 1997. The Avoidance of the Third Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6: 293-338.

Zhang, N. 1997. Syntactic Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese. PhD. Thesis. University of Toronto. PDF

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Recent Talks

Zhang, N. 2009. Packaging number and gender features in classifiers. To be presented at the Mass-Count Workshop. University of Toronto, Feb. 7-8, 2009.

Zhang, N. 2008. Linking elements without categorial features and the immobility of the linked elements. Presented at Linking Elements, Workshop at the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Feb. 3-6, 2008.

Zhang, N. 2007. Expressions for exhaustivity. Presented at the Workshop on Parts and Quantities, Vancouver, Nov. 16, 2007.

Zhang, N. 2007. Gapless relative clauses as clausal licensors of relational nouns. Presented at the International Workshop on Relative Clauses, Taipei, Nov. 2-3, 2007. (PDF)

Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Split Patient Constructions in Chinese. Presented at the Symposium on Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Hong Kong, August 18 – 20, 2007.

Zhang, N. 2007. Deriving Split Variable Constructions. Paper presented at the 5th Workshop on Formal Syntax & Semantics (FOSS-5), National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, April 21-22, 2007.

Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntax of Existential Coda Constructions in Chinese, invited talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Feb. 28, 2007. (PDF) (PPS)

Zhang, N. 2007. Universal 20 and Intra-linguistic Variation. Paper presented at the 2007 International Conference on Linguistics in Korea, Seoul, Jan. 19-20, 2007. (PDF) (PPS)

Recent workshop organization Workshop on Syntactic Parameters (Seoul, July 21-26, 2008) Details of the CIL 18 Program of the workshop

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