Niina Ning Zhang, born in Hohhot

Hohhot

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, Inner Mongolia

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, PR China, obtained her M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 degree in linguistics

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 from Shanghai International Studies University

Shanghai International Studies University

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, Ph.D.

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 degree in linguistics

Linguistics

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 from Shanghai International Studies University

Shanghai International Studies University

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 and University of Toronto

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, Canada

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. She taught linguistic courses in Guangxi Normal University

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, Shanghai International Studies University

Shanghai International Studies University

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, University of Toronto

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, and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. In 1997-2003, she was a researcher in Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/). Now she is an associate professor and the director of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University

National Chung Cheng University

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. Her professional specialty is formal syntax, especially the syntax

Syntax

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 of coordinate constructions. In 2009, she was awarded the Young Scholar Award from Academia Sinica

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, Taiwan

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. In her book (Coordination in Syntax 2009 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

Books and Ph.D. dissertations

• Zhang, N. 2009. 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

• Zhang, N. 2009. Explaining the immobility of conjuncts. Studia Linguistica 63 (1): 1-49.
• Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Same and ATB Constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54 (2).
• Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Relational-Nominal Second Constructions in Chinese. Yuyanxue Luncong 39. Peking University Press.
• 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. Vol. 21: 295-342.
• Zhang, N. 2008. Relativized Parallelism in Mandarin Chinese Natural Coordination. Language Research 44 (1): 121-163.
• Zhang, N. 2007. Universal 20 and Taiwan Sign Language. Sign Language and Linguistics 10 (1): 55-81.
• Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Two Paired Dependency Constructions. Lingua 117 (12): 2134-2158.
• Zhang, N. 2007. On the Categorial Issue of Coordination. Lingua et Linguistica 1 (1): 7-45.
• Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Split Antecedent Relative Clause Constructions. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 5 (1): 19-47.
• 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.
• Lin, Jo-wang & Zhang, N. 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. 2004. Against Across-The-Board Movement. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 30: 123-156.
• Zhang, N. 2004. Move is Remerge. Language and Linguistics 5 (1): 189-209.
• Zhang, N. 2000. Object Shift in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28 (2): 201-246.
• Zhang, N. 1999. Chinese de and the de-construction. Syntaxis 2: 27-49.
• 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

• 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. Singapore: Prentice Hall, pp. 177–201.
• Zhang, N. 2002. The asymmetry between depictives and resultatives in Chinese. In: Anna Maria Di Sciullo (ed.) Asymmetry in Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 165–185.
• 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, pp. 47–63.
• Zhang, N. 2001. [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions. In: G. Alexandrova & O. Arnaudova (eds.) The Minimalist Parameter, Amsterdam: John Benjamins pp. 261–278.
• Zhang, N. 2001. Predicate raising in the Chinese secondary predication. In: N. Dehe & A. Wittek (eds.) Structural aspects of semantically complex verbs. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 293–323.
• Zhang, N. 1997. A Binding Approach to Eventuality Quantification in Dou Constructions, in Liejiong Xu (ed.) Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases. Paris: Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, pp. 167–207.