Xiaoqian Zhang
French teacher, College of foreign languages
688 Yingbin Road, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, 321004 China
Email: xiaoqianzhang@zjnu.cn
Education
09.2012-07.2016 Ph.D. (Theoretic, Descriptive and Automatic Linguistics)
Laboratory of Formal Linguistics (LLF), Paris Diderot University-Paris 7
Dissertation title: Expressions duratives en chinois mandarin. Une étude sur l'aspect.
09.2010-07.2012 Master (Theoretic and Descriptive Linguistics)
Paris Diderot University-Paris7
09.2005-07.2009 B.A. (French and English)
Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Research interests
Formal semantics
Syntax-semantic interface
Aspect
Temporal adverbials
Conference presentations
Tovena, Lucia and Zhang Xiaoqian (2016) Sentence final le in Mandarin Chinese – signalling a belief revison of the speaker's epistemic state, 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-7), Nankai University, Tianjin
Tovena, Lucia and Zhang Xiaoqian (2016) Revising beliefs : subtleties in the semantics of sentence final le in Mandarin, Rencontres d'automne de linguistique formelle: langage, langues et cognition (RALFe2016), Université Paris 8, Paris
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2016) Singularity and pluractionality in Chinese verbal domain, Workshop The profile of Event Delimitation, 49th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Naples Federico II, Naples
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2015) Verbal reduplication and event pluractionality in Mandarin Chinese, 9th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9), University Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Qiu, Yiqin and Zhang, Xiaoqian (2015) The dichotomy of post-verbal durative phrases, 9th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9), University Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2015) Durative phrases in constructions containing identical verbs in Mandarin Chinese, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (Esslli) 2015 Student Session, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Tovena, Lucia and Zhang, Xiaoqian (2015) When the topic is a temporal interval, 28th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2015) Event co-identification in verb-copying constructions containing durative phrases, 28th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris
Tovena, Lucia and Zhang, Xiaoqian (2014) Preverbal temporal phrases in Mandarin Chinese, Rencontres d'automne de linguistique formelle: langage, langues et cognition (RALFe2014), Université Paris 8, Paris
Zhang, Xiaoqian and Tovena, Lucia (2014) ''Zai...li/nei'' – A case of temporal interval co-identification, 9th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (Teal-9), Université de Nantes, Nantes
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2014) The semantics of preverbal temporal expressions in Mandarin Chinese, 27th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2014) Discretising events with verbal –le and the meaning of bare NPs, 22nd Annual Conference of the IACL&25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Maryland, Maryland
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2013) Is sentential le in Mandarin Chinese an aspectual marker or a discursive marker? 8th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, EHESS, Paris
Zhang, Xiaoqian and Tovena, Lucia (2013) Functions of durative phrases in Mandarin Chinese, 26th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2013) Le le final en chinois mandarin est-il un marqueur aspectuel ou un marqueur discursif ? 6ème Journée des Doctorants, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Paris
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2012) Décomposition des prédicats adjectivaux en chinois dans le cadre de la syntaxe de première phase, 25th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris
Publications
Tovena, Lucia and Zhang, Xiaoqian (to appear) A pragmatically enriched temporal relation, In MITWPL Proceedings of the 31st annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL).
Zhang, Xiaoqian (2015) Durative phrases in constructions containing double identical verbs in Mandarin Chinese, In Online proceedings of the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (Esslli) 2015 Student Session : 163—174
Teaching experience
10.2016-present: French teacher, College of foreign languages, Zhejiang Normal University
2012-2015: TD courses of formal semantics, 1st year Master level, Paris Diderot University-Paris 7
2013-2014 : French courses, Chinese teachers of Confucius Institute (Paris Diderot University-Paris 7)
2009-2012: Teaching Assistant of Chinese, Emmanuel d’Alzon Institute
Organisational experience
23rd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (CONSOLE XXIII), Paris Diderot University-Paris 7.
38th Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium (Glow 2015), Paris 8 University, Paris Diderot University-Paris 7, Institut Jean Nicod and INALCO.