{"id":37,"date":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/professor-example\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2019-05-03T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:30:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-151 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/06\/cropped-img_9315-e15284941724801.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-img_9315-e15284941724801.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My name is Yimei Xiang (\u5411\u4f0a\u6885), pronounced as [i: m\u025b\u026a, \u0255i\u0251\u014b].<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m an Assistant Professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/ling.rutgers.edu\/\">Rutgers Linguistics<\/a>, specialized in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and Chinese &amp; East Asian linguistics. I study how meanings are drawn from complex structures, and how the underlying logical system is represented in human languages.<\/li>\n<li>I completed PhD in Linguistics at Harvard Univ. in 2016, and BA in Chinese at Peking Univ. in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>My current research program focuses on the following topics:\n<ul>\n<li>questions with complex structures\u00a0and\u00a0questions in embeddings;<\/li>\n<li>higher-order readings of questions;<\/li>\n<li>polarity items and free choice items;<\/li>\n<li>multi-functional words in East Asian languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2019\/05\/CV.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CV<\/a> (updated to April 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Yimei Xiang (\u5411\u4f0a\u6885), pronounced as [i: m\u025b\u026a, \u0255i\u0251\u014b]. 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