Research & CV

Here is my CV (fresh on August 10th, 2022), which contains detailed information about my publications and presentations (with links included).

Recent news

• I presented a poster on "The presupposition of even" at Semantics & Linguistic Theory 32 in June 2022.

Peer-reviewed research articles

(*: corresponding author)

• 2021. Linmin Zhang* & Jia Ling. The semantics of comparatives: A difference-based approach. Journal of Semantics 38 (2): 249 - 303. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffab003 [preprint at Lingbuzz]

• 2020. Linmin Zhang*. Split semantics for non-monotonic quantifiers in than-clauses. Syntax & Semantics vol. 42: Interactions of Degree & Quantification: 332 – 363. doi: 10.1163/9789004431515_011 [preprint at Lingbuzz]

• 2018. Ivano Ciardelli*, Linmin Zhang*, & Lucas Champollion*. Two switches in the theory of counterfactuals: A study of truth conditionality and minimal change. Linguistics & Philosophy 41(6): 577 – 621. doi: 10.1007/s10988-018-9232-4 [pdf]

• 2018. Linmin Zhang* & Liina Pylkkänen. Semantic composition of sentences word by word: MEG evidence for shared processing of conceptual and logical elements. Neuropsychologia 119: 392 – 404. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.016

• 2018. Linmin Zhang* & Liina Pylkkänen. Composing lexical vs. functional adjectives: Evidence for uniformity in the left temporal lobe. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25(6): 2309 – 2322. doi: 10.3758/s13423-018-1469-y

• 2015. Linmin Zhang* & Liina Pylkkänen. The interplay of composition and concept specificity in the left anterior temporal lobe: An MEG study. NeuroImage 111: 228 – 240. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.028

Manuscripts

• 2022. Linmin Zhang*. Degree Expressions in Chinese. Accepted pending minor revisions at The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. [available at Lingbuzz]

• 2019. Linmin Zhang*, Xing Tian*, et al. Comparable semantic representations in processing word meanings by the human brain and in computers. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/843896

Conference proceedings papers

• (2022). Linmin Zhang. The presupposition of even. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32 [available at Lingbuzz]

• (2022). Linmin Zhang. Post-suppositions and uninterpretable questions. In Proceedings of TLLM 2022. [available at Lingbuzz]

• 2020. Linmin Zhang. Comparatives bring a degree-based NPI licenser. In Monotonicity in Logic and Language (TLLM 2020, LNCS 12564). Chapter 12. 217 - 238. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62843-0_12

• 2020. Linmin Zhang. Degrees as kinds vs. degrees as numbers: Evidence from equatives. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.912

• 2019. Linmin Zhang. The semantics of comparisons in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XII & SICOGG XXI. [available at Lingbuzz]

• 2018. Linmin Zhang. Enough, too, and causal dependence. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22. Vol. 2, ZASPiL 61: 481 – 498. [pdf] [also available at Lingbuzz]

• 2018. Linmin Zhang. Modified numerals revisited: The case of fewer than 4 and between 4 and 8. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21: 1371 – 1388. [pdf] [also available at Lingbuzz or SemanticsArchive]

• 2017. Linmin Zhang & Jia Ling. Ambiguous than-clauses and the mention-some reading (with Jia Ling). In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 27. [pdf] [also available at Lingbuzz]

• 2017. Linmin Zhang & Jia Ling. Little: Not a dichotomy-based negation operator, but a trivalence-based polar opposition operator (with Jia Ling). In Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34: 590 - 598. [pdf] [also available at Lingbuzz or SemanticsArchive]

• 2016. Linmin Zhang. External and internal same: a unified account motivated by attitude reports. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20: 833 – 850. [pdf] [available also at Lingbuzz or SemanticsArchive]

• 2016. Lucas Champollion, Ivano Ciardelli, & Linmin Zhang. Breaking de Morgan's law in counterfactual antecedents (with Lucas Champollion and Ivano Ciardelli). In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26: 304 – 324. [pdf] [also available at Lingbuzz]

• 2016. Linmin Zhang & Jia Ling. Additive particles with a built-in Gricean pragmatics: The semantics of German noch, Chinese hái and Hungarian még (with Jia Ling). In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. Volume 1 (2016). Article 22: 1 – 15. [pdf] (available also at Lingbuzz or SemanticsArchive).

• 2016. Linmin Zhang. Motivating a Symmetric Copula Be in Attitude Reports. In U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 22.1. Article 34: 313 – 322. [pdf] (available also at Lingbuzz or SemanticsArchive).

• 2015. Linmin Zhang & Jia Ling. Comparatives revisited: Downward-entailing differentials do not threaten encapsulation theories (with Jia Ling). In Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium: 478 – 487. [pdf at Lingbuzz or SemanticsArchive]

• 2015. Linmin Zhang. Decomposing English particles and and or. In NELS 45: Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Volume 3: 261 – 270. [pdf at Lingbuzz or SemanticsArchive]

Ph.D. thesis

• 2016. Composing conceptual and logical information: Semantic processing in left anterior temporal cortex. (Check here to read the abstract.) This Ph.D. thesis has been published as three papers in NeuroImage (2015), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2018), and Neuropsychologia (2018).

Qualifying papers

• 2014. Semantics qualifying paper: Mandarin Chinese particle hai. Chair: Anna Szabolcsi; Committee members: Chris Barker, Lucas Champollion.

• 2013. Neurolinguistics qualifying paper: The Role of the Left Temporal Pole in the Language Processing: A Magnetoencephalography Investigation into the Interaction between Combination and Concept Specificity Effects. Chair: Liina Pylkkänen; Committee members: Chris Barker, Gregory Murphy.