Research
Papers
- A hybrid categorial approach to question composition. (Paper)
2018. Under revision. - Function alternations of the Mandarin particle dou: Distributor, free choice licensor, and ‘even’. (Paper)
2018. Accepted (with minor revision). Journal of Semantics. - Mention-some readings of plural-marked questions: Experimental evidence. (Paper)
Xiang, Yimei and Alexandre Cremers.
2017. Proceedings of North East Linguistics Society 47. - ONLY: An NPI-licenser and NPI-unlicenser. (Paper)
2017. Journal of Semantics 34(3): 447-481. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffx006 - Interpreting Questions with Non-exhaustive Answers. (Paper)
2016. Ph.D. Dissertation. Harvard University. Committee: Gennaro Chierchia, Danny Fox, C.-T. James Huang. - Solving the dilemma between uniqueness and mention-some. (Paper)
2016. Proceedings of North East Linguistics Society 46. - Complete and true: A uniform analysis for mention-some and mention-all questions. (Paper)
2016. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20. - Mandarin particle dou: A pre-exhaustification exhaustifier. (Paper)
2016. Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 11. [See manuscript 2017 for updates] - Mention-some readings of questions: Complexities from number-marking.
2015. Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 20. (Paper) - A Grammatical view of exhaustification with focus movement:
Evidence from NPI-Licensing.
2015. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19. (Paper) [See JoS 2017 for new analysis] - Obligatory neg-raising in Mandarin: Negatives and aspects. (Paper)
2014. Unpublished manuscript. Harvard University. - Neg-raising: Focus and implicatures. (Paper)
2013. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18. - Neg-raising and aspect: Evidence from Mandarin.
2013. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 19. [Bad paper. Don’t read/cite. ]
Selected Talks and Posters without proceedings
See a full list of talks/posters in my CV.
2018
- Quantifying into questions.
Invited tutorial. The Workshop of multiple wh– constructions and their kin. University of Nantes. Sep 2018. (Handout) - A hybrid categorial approach to question composition.
- NYU Semantics Group. Sep 2018. (Handout, related paper)
- The Workshop of multiple wh– constructions and their kin. University of Nantes. Sep 2018
- Rutgers University. Feb 2018.
- Complete and true: Attitudes held of questions.
Invited colloquium. Rutgers University. Feb 2018. (Slides)
2017
- Sensitivity to false answers in interpreting questions under attitudes.
Northwestern University, Tsinghua University, ILLC at University van Amsterdam, questions and attitudes workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, XPrag 2015 - Alternations of logical functions: Mandarin particle dou as a pre-exhaustification exhaustifier. (Handout)
SJTU, BLCU, MIT Exhaustivity Workshop, EACL 9, and LAGB 2015 - Semantics bootcamp: Questions. (Part I) (Part II)
Peking University. July. - Wh-items quantify over polymorphic sets. (Slides)
CLS 53. University of Chicago. May 25-27. - Composing complex questions: Multi-wh questions and questions with quantifiers.
- Composing questions: A hybrid categorial approach. (Slides)(Printable)
Compositionality at the Interfaces, GLOW 40, Leiden University, March 14.
Till 2016
- Deriving the ambiguity of mention-some questions by pre-exhaustifications. (Handout)
LSA 2016, Washington. January 2016. - Deriving disjunctive mention-all answers. (Handout)
Inquisitive Semantics closing workshop “Questions in Semantics and Logic”, ILLC, University van Amsterdam. December 2015. - Multiple exhaustifications and multiple scalar items. (Handout)
PLC 39. University of Pennsylvania. March 2015. - Obligatory neg-raising in Mandarin: Negatives and aspects. (Handout)
TEAL 9, Nantes. September 2014. - Focus structure and NPI-licensing. (Poster)
GLOW 37, Brussels. April 2014.