Associate Professor, Department of College English

Council member, Professional Committee of Language and Logic, Chinese Association of Logic

 

Research Fields:

 

I work on Formal approaches to meaning in Mandarin Chinese, especially Categorial grammars, including Combinatory Categorial Grammar and Type Logical Grammar. I am interested in language phenomena that are sitting at syntax- semantics interface, as well as semantics- pragmatics interface, such as Chinese quantificational structure and Chinese information structure. I’ve translated some English books on theoretical linguistics, culture and children’s books as well.

 

Education:

 

M.A.in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2008, Beijing Language and Culture University(Thesis: A study of Existential Sentences in Mandarin Chinese under the Framework of Event Semantics); Ph. D. in Logics, 2011, Graduate School of Chinese Association of Social Sciences (Dissertation: Type Logical Grammar and Anaphorical Ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese, Excellent Dissertation of Graduation School of CASS).

 

Selected Publications and Research Grants:

 

 

Refereed papers:

 

“A unified treatment for quantificational yǒu in Mandarin Chinese: event yǒu and individual yǒu” (2020), “On the hierarchical pyramid structure of linguistic performance” (2019, coauthored with Chongli ZOU), “Chomsky hierarchy and natural language grammars: from Phrase structure grammar to Non-transformational grammar” (2015a), “Syntactic systems of Logical Semantics” (2015b), “CCG calculation over BA-verb and other related constructions in Mandarin Chinese” (2013), “The boundedness of VP and event semantics of SVCs” (2013, coauthored with Kesheng LI), “Type logical grammar and anaphorical ellipsis in Mandarin” (2011), “A case study on ‘Yi(one) + classifier +N+negation’-subject type generalized quantifier in mandarin Chinese” (2010a), “Type match and functional application” (2010b), etc..

Book chapters: Chapter 8 for Logical Semantic Studies for Natural Language Processing from Science Press, Chapter 1 and 11 in Reading Classics in Natural Language Logic from China Social Sciences Press, etc..

 

Translated books:

 

Logic, Language and Meaning Vol. 1 (2017, co-translated with Lu ZHANG and Chongli ZOU), Japanese Sword (Coming up, co-translated with Mairui SHANG), Britain After Rome (Coming up, co-translated with Keman, ZHU and Du WANG), etc..

 

Grants:

 

Held National Social Sciences Fund (14CZX044) “Logical Semantics for Combinatory Categorial Grammar”, Social Sciences Fund by Ministry of Education (12YJCZH153) and “Combinatory Categorial Grammar Study on Mandarin”. Currently in charge of the 2nd sub-program of Major Program of National Social Sciences Fund (17ZDA027), “Artificial Intelligence and Combinatory Categorial Grammar”.