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

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張寧 國立中正大學語言學研究所 嘉義縣民雄鄉大學路168 台灣 62102

 

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, Niina. 2009. Coordination in Syntax. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series 123, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

 

Recent Papers

Zhang, N. 2010. Explaining the immobility of conjuncts. Studia Linguistica 64 (2): 190-238. PDF

Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Relational-Nominal Second Constructions in Chinese. Yuyanxue Luncong 39: 257-301. Peking University Press. PDF

Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Same and ATB Constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54 (2): 367-399. PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Encoding Exhaustivity. UST Working Papers in Linguistics 4, National Tsing Hua University, 133-143. 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): 8-54. PDF

Zhang, N. 2008. Repetitive and Correlative Coordinators as Focus Particles Parasitic on Coordinators. SKY Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 21: 295-342. 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. PDF

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. PDF

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 workshop organization

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

Program of the workshop

 

 

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