What's new by Dec. 2024: A paper on semantics of Shanghainese (out).
Recent Talks
April 2024 at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus:
Languages of the World and Linguistic Studies in a Broad Sense
Recent Published Works:
Yan Jiang (2024) Temporal information in sentence-final particles: tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu. Asian Languages and Linguistics, Vol. 5:2 (2024) pp.251–279. John Benjamins.
Teaching Updates (2024-25):
Introduction to Linguistics, SOAS. Autumn
Languages of the World, SOAS. Spring
Chinese Semantics, External, Autumn
English Semantics, External, Spring
Practical Translation, SOAS, Autumn and Spring
Name: Yan JIANG (Given name_SURNAME) 蔣嚴 (traditional Chinese) ; 蒋严 (simplified Chinese)
Work email yj9atsoasdotacdotuk
School Webpage http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff104913.php
LinkedIn: Yan Jiang
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yan_Jiang21
Google Scholar: Yan Jiang - Google Scholar
Twitter: twitter.com/Yan_JIANG_SOAS
WordPress: yanjianghk.wordpress.com/
Wix-site for Shanghainese: yanjiangsoas.wixsite.com/shanghainese/about
ORCHID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7778-9543
SCOPUS ID: 1886675
LinguisTree: https://academictree.org/linguistics/peopleinfo.php?pid=858839
In-frequented sites:
Baidu Scholar: http://xueshu.baidu.com/scholarID/CN-B375DJXJ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100028889268665
Academia: https://soas.academia.edu/YanJiang
China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database: Yan JIANG;
talks and presentations: Updated April, 2018
15/Nov/2016 Talk at SOAS Department of Linguistics: Much Ado about "dou" in Mandarin Chinese .
27/Jan/2017 Contributing to a BBC Radio 4 Last Word to commemorate Prof. ZHOU Youguang, father of the Pinyin system.
20/Feb/2017 Presentation at Workshop on Missionary Grammars: Exploring Older Linguistics Texts _the value of missionary texts in Shanghai vernacular between 1843 and 1950 (Venue_SOAS_B204).
21/Feb/2017 Talk at University of Oxford: Faculty of Oriental Studies: East Asian Linguistics Seminar_ Chinese and Counterfactual Reasoning.
17-18/March/2017 Project Launching Conference: Overseas Studies of Chinese Grammar, Jinan University, Guangzhou.
7-8/April/2017 Chinese and Counterfactual Reasoning. The International Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
19-20/April/2017 First Dynamic Syntax Conference: Chinese Anaphora: Lexical Encoding, Distributive Alternation and Reference Tracking (SOAS).
5/Oct/2017 The Rise of Conditionals in the Fall: Conditionals from Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Institute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, Germany: Title of presentation: Conditionals and Chinese Counterfactuals. Workshop organizer: Dr. Mingya Liu. Project: SPOCC: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives: cross-linguistic and experimental perspectives. Programme. View Download
18-19/Nov/2017 The 8th Wangdao Forum on Rhetoric. Fudan University, Shanghai: Title of presentation: Underdeterminacy and its Analysis -- an Ontological Exploration in Rhetoric and Grammar.
30/Mar/2018 Plurality in DRT and its implications to the analysis of dou-sentences in Chinese. Talk given at School of Foreign Languages, Fudan University.
31/Mar. -1/Apr/2018 Symposium on Theoretical Issues in Syntax and Semantics of Chinese: Realis and Factuality. Department of Chinese, Fudan University, Shanghai: Title of presentation: Factors related to the analysis of Chinese counterfactuals.
2/Apr/2018 Pragmatics and Reason. Talk given at Department of Chinese, Fudan University.
17/Apr/2018 2nd Dynamic Syntax Conference, Edinburgh University; Title of presentation: Chinese Counterfactuals in Dynamic Syntax.
07/Nov/2018 A Theoretical Account of Chinese Counterfactual Ingredients, Talk given at Linguistic Forum, International Chinese and Culture, East China Normal University (co-organized by Post-graduate Student Association, East China Normal University).