- My name is Yimei Xiang (向伊梅), pronounced as [i: mɛɪ, ɕiɑŋ].
- I’m an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Linguistics, specialized in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and Chinese & East Asian linguistics. I study how meanings are drawn from complex structures, and how the underlying logical system is represented in human languages.
- I completed PhD in Linguistics at Harvard Univ. in 2016, and BA in Chinese at Peking Univ. in 2010.
- My current research program focuses on the following topics:
- questions with complex structures and questions in embeddings;
- higher-order readings of questions;
- polarity items and free choice items;
- multi-functional words in East Asian languages.
CV (updated to April 2019)
Upcoming & Ongoing
- Seminar: Semantics of Questions
Graduate-level course, Spring 2019 (Course materials) - Getting quantifying-into questions uniformly: functionality, exhaustivity, and quantificational variability.
Poster. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 29. UCLA. May 17-19, 2019. - TBD.
Invited talk. Oberseminar Colloquium. Göttingen Univ. June 11, 2019. - TBD.
Invited talk. Workshop “Exhaustivity in questions and answers – Experimental and theoretical approaches”. Tübingen Univ. June 13-14, 2019.