{"id":411,"date":"2019-05-03T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/?p=411"},"modified":"2019-05-03T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:43:42","slug":"411-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/411-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\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<h5><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)<\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Upcoming &amp; Ongoing<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Seminar: Semantics of Questions<\/strong><br \/>\nGraduate-level course, Spring 2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/courses\/\">Course materials<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Getting quantifying-into questions uniformly: functionality, exhaustivity, and quantificational variability.<\/strong><br \/>\nPoster. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 29. UCLA. May 17-19, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>TBD<\/strong>.<br \/>\nInvited talk. Oberseminar Colloquium. G\u00f6ttingen Univ. June 11, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>TBD<\/strong>.<br \/>\nInvited talk. Workshop \u201cExhaustivity in questions and answers \u2013 Experimental and theoretical approaches\u201d. T\u00fcbingen Univ. June 13-14, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Recent papers<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A hybrid categorial approach to question composition. <\/strong><br \/>\nXiang, Y. Under revision. (<a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/004178\">paper<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Function alternations of the Mandarin particle <em>dou<\/em>: Distributor, free choice licensor, and \u2018even\u2019.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nXiang, Y. Accepted (with minor revisions) by <em>Journal of Semantics.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/003598\">paper<\/a>)<\/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]. I&#8217;m an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Linguistics, specialized in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, and Chinese &amp; East Asian linguistics. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/411-2\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About - Yimei Xiang<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/411-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - Yimei Xiang\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My name is Yimei Xiang (\u5411\u4f0a\u6885), pronounced as [i: m\u025b\u026a, \u0255i\u0251\u014b]. 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