Niina Ning Zhang
Niina Ning Zhang, born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, PR China, obtained her M.A. degree in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University, Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University and University of Toronto, Canada. She taught linguistic courses in Guangxi Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University, University of Toronto, and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. In 1997-2003, she was a researcher in Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. Now she is a professor of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University. Her professional specialty is formal syntax, especially the syntax of coordinate constructions. In 2009, she was awarded the Young Scholar Award from Academia Sinica, Taiwan. In her book, she argues for four radical claims: conjuncts are syntactically asymmetrical; there is no independent syntactic category for coordinators; Ross's Coordinate Structure Constraint is not a construction-specific syntactic constraint; Across-The-Board Movement does not exist.
Main Publications
Books and Ph.D. dissertations
- 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. 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. 2019c. Appearance and Existence in Mandarin Chinese. ' 40 :101–140.
- Zhang, N. 2019b. Sentence-final aspect particles as finite markers in Mandarin Chinese. ' 57 :967–1023.
- Zhang, N. 2019a. Complex indefinites and the projection of DP in Mandarin Chinese. ' 1-32.
- Zhang, N. 2018. Non-canonical objects as event kind-classifying elements. '
- Zhang, N. 2017b. The syntax of event-internal and event-external verbal classifiers. '
- Zhang, N. 2017a. Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax. ' 55 :371-411.
- Zhang, N. 2016c. Identifying Chinese dependent clauses in the forms of subjects. ' 25 :275-311.
- Zhang, N. 2016b. A study note on the state-denoting GE construction. ' 2:3.
- Zhang, N. 2016a. Understanding S-Selection. ' 37 : 56-73.
- Zhang, N. 2015c. The Morphological Expression of Plurality and Pluractionality in Mandarin. ' 165: 1-27.
- Zhang, N. 2015b. Functional Head Properties of the Degree Word Hen in Mandarin Chinese. ' 153: 14-41.
- Zhang, N. 2015a. Nominal-internal phrasal movement in Mandarin. ' 32 : 375-425.
- Zhang, N. 2014. Expressing Number Productively in Mandarin Chinese. ' 52.1: 1-34.
- Zhang, N. 2014. Summing quantities of objects at the left edge. '.
- Zhang, N. 2013. Encoding Unexpectedness by Aspect Inflection. ' 39, 23-57.
- Zhang, N. 2012. De and the Functional Expansion of Classifiers. ' 13 : 569-582.
- Zhang, N. 2012. Projecting semantic features. ' 66 : 58-74.
- Zhang, N. 2010. Explaining the immobility of conjuncts. ' 64 : 190-238.
- Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Same and ATB Constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54.
- 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, ' 9 : 1005-1028.
- Zhang, N. 2008. Existential Coda Constructions as Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions. ' 3 : 8-57.
- Zhang, N. 2008. Repetitive and Correlative Coordinators as Focus Particles Parasitic on Coordinators. '. Vol. 21: 295-342.
- Zhang, N. 2008. Relativized Parallelism in Mandarin Chinese Natural Coordination. ' 44 : 121-163.
- Zhang, N. 2007. Universal 20 and Taiwan Sign Language. ' 10 : 55-81.
- Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Two Paired Dependency Constructions. 117 : 2134-2158.
- Zhang, N. 2007. On the Categorial Issue of Coordination. Lingua et Linguistica 1 : 7-45.
- Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Split Antecedent Relative Clause Constructions. ' 5 : 19-47.
- Zhang, N. 2007. Root merger in Chinese compounds. ' 61 : 170-184.
- Zhang, N. 2007. A syntactic account of the Direct Object Restriction in Chinese. 43 : 53-75.
- Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntax of English Comitative Constructions. ' 41: 135-169.
- Lin, Jo-wang & Zhang, N. 2006. The Syntax of the Non-Referential TA 『it' in Mandarin Chinese. ' 7 : 991-1016.
- Zhang, N. 2006. On the Configuration Issue of Coordination. ' 7 : 175-223.
- Zhang, N. 2006. Representing Specificity by the Internal Order of Indefinites. ' 44 : 1-21.
- Zhang, N. 2004. Against Across-The-Board Movement. Concentric: ' 30: 123-156.
- Zhang, N. 2004. Move is Remerge. ' 5 : 189-209.
- Zhang, N. 2000. Object Shift in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28 : 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. 36 : 957-980.
- Zhang, N. 1998. Argument Interpretations of the Ditransitive Construction. ' 21: 179-209.
- Zhang, N. 1997. The Avoidance of the Third Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Chinese, 6: 293-338.
Main book chapter articles
- Zhang, N. 2017b. Verbal classifiers. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers, 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, 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, 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: 257-301. Peking University Press.
- Zhang, N. 2003. On the Pre-Predicate Lai and Qu in Chinese. In Jie Xu, Donghng Ji, and Kim Teng Lua, 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, Asymmetry in Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 165–185.
- Zhang, N. 2002. Movement within a Spatial Phrase. In: Hubert Cuyckens and Guenter Radden, Perspectives on Prepositions. Linguistische Arbeiten. Band 454. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer, pp. 47–63.
- Zhang, N. 2001. Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions. In: G. Alexandrova & O. Arnaudova The Minimalist Parameter, Amsterdam: John Benjamins pp. 261–278.
- Zhang, N. 2001. Predicate raising in the Chinese secondary predication. In: N. Dehe & A. Wittek 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 Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases. Paris: Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, pp. 167–207.