Ziling Zhu ·朱紫菱 

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Seminar für Englische Philologie at Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany), where I work on Hedde Zeijlstra's advanced ERC grant Unpacking Paradigmatic Gaps (UNPAG).

My primary interests in linguistics include formal semantics and experimental semantics. I have worked on presuppositions and question embeddings in the clausal domain, as well as definiteness and individuability in the nominal domain. 

In 2025, I received my PhD from the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University–New Brunswick (New Jersey, US). My dissertation research, supervised by Yimei Xiang, investigates the factive inferences of clause-embedding predicates. I have also looked into the selectional restrictions of emotive factives (with Yimei Xiang).  My experimental projects include Bridging Anaphora in Chinese (BrAnCh) (with Dorothy Ahn) and Mandarin bare nouns and classifiers (with Kristen Syrett). I also served as the manager of the Meaning Across Languages Lab (PI: Dorothy Ahn) for three years.

In 2019, I completed my undergraduate training in the Department of English Language and Literature at Fudan University (Shanghai, China), with a major in English and minor in Chinese. I worked on alternative questions under the advision of Yuan Shen.

I visit the p-side of linguistics from time to time. I have worked on Tuwuli tones and melodies and the computational modeling of Mandarin rhotacization with Recursive Schemes.