Zhang, Ning. 2023. Coordinate Structures. Elements in Generative Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Zhang, Niina Ning. 2013. Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (Paperback 2016).

Zhang, Niina Ning. 2010. Coordination in Syntax. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series 123, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schwabe, Kerstin and Niina Zhang (eds.). 2000. Ellipsis in Conjunction. Tuebingen: Niemeyer // Berlin: De Gruyter. 

Zhang, N. 2025. Pied-Piping in the external merge in Collins Conjunctions. Proceedings of the 2024 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Open Access

Zhang, N. 2025. Light predicate raising in the Mandarin post-VP adverbial nominal constructions. Language and Linguistics 26.1: 155-189. Open Access.

Zhang, N. 2024. Unraveling Syntactic Puzzles of Comparative Correlatives. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 33: 455–488. Open Access

Zhang, N. 2024. Coordinators and modification markers as categoryless functional elements. Nordlyd 48 (1): 39-57. Open Access

Zhang, N. 2024. The structure of the zhe nominals in Mandarin. In James Myers & James H-Y. Tai (eds.) Looking at Language from All Sides. Taipei: The Crane Publishing, 199-215. PDF 

Zhang, N. 2023. Mutually Dependent Markers in Clause Pairs. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 44 (2): 75-93. PDF.

Zhang, N. 2022. Numeral Classifiers in Positives and Comparatives in Mandarin. Lingbuzz

Zhang, N. 2022. Head Dependency and Degree Words in Mandarin. In New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, (Ed) Andrew Simpson. John Benjamins, 294-300.

Zhang, N. 2022. Two Kinds of Selection Marking. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9 (1): 50-78. Open Access 

Zhang, N. 2022. Defective Incorporating Verbs in Mandarin. Language and Linguistics 23 (2): 329-348. Open Access

Zhang, N. 2022. Agentless Presupposition and Implicit and Non-Canonical Objects in Mandarin. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 51: 81-104. Open Access

Zhang, N. 2022. Kind-Level Predicates of Events Inside Another Predication. Studia Linguistica 76(2): 315-353. Open Access

Zhang, N. 2021. Pairing Degree-WH Clauses in Mandarin. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 42 (2): 121-160. https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2021-0004 Open Access

Zhang, N. 2021. Two categorial issues of degree constructions in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 30 (3): 217-229. Open Access

Zhang, N. 2020. External Degree Constructions in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 29 (4): 365-392. Journal Link. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2020. Low predicate inversion. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 29 (2): 159-207. Journal Link. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2019. Appearance and Existence in Mandarin Chinese. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 40 (2), 101-140. Journal link (Open Access)

Zhang, N. 2019. Sentence-final aspect particles as finite markers in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 57 (5): 967-1023. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2019. Complex indefinites and the projection of DP in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 28 (2): 179-210. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2018. Non-canonical objects as event kind-classifying elements. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36 (4), 1395-1437. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2017. The syntax of event-internal and event-external verbal classifiers. Studia Linguistica 71 (3): 266-300. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2017. Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax. Linguistics 55 (2): 371-411. Journal link, Manuscript,

Zhang, N. 2017. Verbal classifiers. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. Vol. 1: 627-631. PDF

Zhang, N. 2017. Adpositions. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. Vol. 1: 116-122. PDF

Zhang, N. 2016c. Identifying Chinese dependent clauses in the forms of subjects. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25 (3): 275-311. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2016b. A study note on the state-denoting GE construction. Lingua Sinica 2:3. DOI 10.1186/s40655-016-0012-1. Journal link (Open Access)

Zhang, N. 2016a. Understanding S-Selection. Studies in Chinese Linguistics. 37 (1): 56-73. (Open Access)

Zhang, N. 2015c. The Morphological Expression of Plurality and Pluractionality in Mandarin. Lingua 165: 1-27. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2015b. Functional Head Properties of the Degree Word Hen in Mandarin Chinese. Lingua 153: 14-41. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2015a. Nominal-internal phrasal movement in Mandarin Chinese. The Linguistic Review 32 (2): 375-425. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2014. Expressing Number Productively in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 52.1: 1-34. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2014. Summing quantities of objects at the left edge. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 12.2: 33-58. Journal link (Open Access)

Zhang, N. 2013. Encoding Unexpectedness by Aspect Inflection. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 39 (1), 23-57. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2012. Numeral Classifier Structures. Manuscript. National Chung Cheng University. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2012. De and the Functional Expansion of Classifiers. Language and Linguistics 13 (3): 569-582. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2012. Projecting semantic features. Studia Linguistica 66 (1): 58-74. Journal link, PDF

Zhang, N. 2012. Countability and numeral classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. In Count and Mass Across Languages, Diane Massam (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press: 220-237. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2011. The Constituency of Classifier Constructions in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 9.1: 1-50. Journal link (Open Access)

Zhang, N. 2011. Semantic Features of Counting Units in a Syntagmatic Perspective, Language and Cognition: Festschrift in Honor of James H-Y. Tai on His 70th Birthday. Jung-hsing Chang (ed.), Taipei: The Crane Publishing. 363-393. PDF

Zhang, N. 2011. Noun-Classifier Compounds in Mandarin Chinese. In Plurality in Classifier Languages: Plurality, Mass/Kind, Classifiers and the DPs, Young-Wha Kim (ed.), Seoul: Hankukmunhwasa. 195-244.PDF

Zhang, N. 2009. Explaining the immobility of conjuncts. Studia Linguistica 64 (2): 190-238. Journal link, Manuscript,

Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Relational-Nominal Second Constructions in Chinese. Yuyanxue Luncong 39: 257-301. Peking University Press. PDF

Zhang, N. 2009. The Syntax of Same and ATB Constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 54 (2): 367-399. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2008. Encoding Exhaustivity. UST Working Papers in Linguistics 4, National Tsing Hua University, 133-143. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2008. Gapless relative clauses as clausal licensers of relational nouns, Language and Linguistics 9 (4): 1005-1028. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2008. Existential Coda Constructions as Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions. The Linguistics Journal 3 (3): 8-54. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2008. Repetitive and Correlative Coordinators as Focus Particles Parasitic on Coordinators. SKY Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 21: 295-342. Journal link (Open Access)

Zhang, N. 2008. Relativized Parallelism in Mandarin Chinese Natural Coordination. Language Research 44 (1): 121-163. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2007. 現代漢語的複雜存現句.《語言與文化論述》,林慶勳 主編,徐淑瑛 編輯, 國立中山大學人文社會科學研究中心,文學院, 25-62.PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. Universal 20 and Taiwan Sign Language. Sign Language and Linguistics 10 (1): 55-81. Journal link,PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. Root merger in Chinese compounds. Studia Linguistica 61 (2): 170-184. Journal link, PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Two Paired Dependency Constructions. Lingua 117 (12): 2134-2158. Journal link, PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. 自然聯合結構與連接項平行關係的相對性.《东方语言学》2007 第二期.PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. A syntactic account of the Direct Object Restriction in Chinese. Language Research 43 (1): 53-75. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntax of English Comitative Constructions. Folia Linguistica 41 (1/2): 135-169. Journal link, PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. On the Categorial Issue of Coordination. Lingua et Linguistica 1 (1): 7-46. PDF

Zhang, N. 2007. The Syntactic Derivations of Split Antecedent Relative Clause Constructions. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 5(1): 19-47. Journal link (Open Access)

Lin, Jo-wang & Niina Zhang. 2006. The Syntax of the Non-Referential TA ‘it’ in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics 7 (4): 991-1016. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2006. On the Configuration Issue of Coordination. Language and Linguistics 7 (1): 175-223. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2006. Representing Specificity by the Internal Order of Indefinites. Linguistics 44 (1): 1-21. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2005. Comitative Constructions in Chinese. In: Chuan-ren Ke (ed) Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. 353-368. PDF

Zhang, N. 2005. Juggling Singular and Plural Pronouns. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2004. Move is Remerge. Language and Linguistics 5 (1). 189-209. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2004. Against Across-The-Board Movement. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 30: 123-156. Journal link (free access)

Zhang, N. 2003. The asymmetry between depictives and resultatives in Chinese. In: Anna Maria Di Sciullo (ed.) Asymmetry in Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 165-185. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2003. On the Pre-Predicate Lai come, and Qu go, in Chinese. In Jie Xu, Donghong Ji, and Teng Lua Kim (eds.), Chinese Syntax and Semantics. Singapore: Prentice Hall. 177–201. PDF

Zhang, N. 2002. Movement within a Spatial Phrase. In: Hubert Cuyckens and Guenter Radden (eds.) Perspectives on Prepositions. Linguistische Arbeiten. Band 454. Max Niemeyer: Tuebingen; Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 47-63. PDF

Zhang, N. 2002. Counting and measuring eventualities in Chinese. Ms. ZAS. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2002. Island Effects and Episodic Eventualities in Chinese Topicalization. In D. Hole, P. Law, and N. Zhang (eds.) Linguistics by Heart: in honor of Horst-Dieter Gasde. ZAS-Berlin. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2001. Predication raising in the Chinese secondary predication. In: N. Dehe & A. Wittek (eds.) Structural aspects of semantically complex verbs. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 293-323. PDF

Zhang, N. 2001. On the absence of nonrestrictive relatives in Chinese. Ms. ZAS-Berlin. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2001. Sell Nonrestrictive Relatives. Ms. ZAS-Berlin. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2001. On Nonprimary Selectional Restrictions. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 26, 219-243. PDF

Zhang, N. 2001. Short Movement of Ms. ZAS-Berlin. Manuscript.

Zhang, N. 2001. The structures of Depictive and Resultative Constructions in Chinese. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 22, 191-221. PDF

Zhang, N. 2000. The Reference Time of Tense and the Chinese Sentence-Final LE. ZAS-Berlin. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 2000. Object shift in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 28 (2): 201-246. Journal link, PDF

Zhang, N. 2000. On Chinese Verbless Constructions. In: Kerstin Schwabe and Ning Zhang (eds.) Ellipsis in Conjunction. Tuebingen: Niemeyer, 157-177. Book link PDF

Zhang, N. 1999. Chinese de and the de-construction. Syntaxis 2, 27-49. PDF

Zhang, N. 1999. Thematic dependencies between V and Little v. In Zoe Wu (ed.) Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Los Angeles: University of Southern California. 162-176. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 1999. Empty verbs in Chinese predicatives and complex predicates. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 14, 147-163. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 1998. Argument Interpretations of the Ditransitive Construction. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 21, 179-209. Manuscript

Zhang, N. 1998. The Interactions Between Lexical Meanings and Construction Meanings. Linguistics 36 (5): 957-980. Journal link, Manuscript

Zhang, N. 1997. A Binding Approach to Eventuality Quantification in Dou Constructions, in Liejiong Xu (ed.) Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases. Paris: Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, pp. 167–207. PDF

Zhang, N. 1997. The Avoidance of the Third Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6: 293-338. Journal link, PDF