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Xiaoqian Zhang

French teacher, College of foreign languages

Zhejiang Normal University

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.

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