Yimei Xiang ∙ 向伊梅

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 Ph.D. in Linguisitcs at Harvard Univ. in 2016 and B.A. 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)

Teaching
- Courses in Fall 2019: Semantics I (graduate), Semantics (undergrad)
- Course in Spring 2019. Semantics of Questions (graduate seminar)
Talks
- “Getting quantifying-into questions uniformly: functionality, exhaustivity, and quantificational variability.” Poster. SALT 29. UCLA. May 17-19, 2019.
- “Higher-order readings of WH-questions.” 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,

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