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Barry C.-Y. Yang (楊中玉)

Associate Professor
Language Center
National United University
Email: barryyang AT nuu.edu.tw
(Updated: Sept 11, 2023)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

2016 ~ current Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Foreign Languages/ Language Center
National United University, Taiwan
2009 ~ 2016 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied Foreign Languages/ Language Center
National United University, Taiwan
2008 ~ 2009 Consultant, Writing Center
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
2007 ~ 2008 Visiting Fellow
Harvard University, Dept. of Linguistics
2006 ~ 2007 Lecturer, Chinese Department,
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
2004 ~ 2005 Lecturer, Center for Teacher Education,
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
2002 ~ 2006 Lecturer, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature,
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
2001 ~ 2007 Lecturer, Language Center,
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
2001 ~ 2004 Lecturer, Dept. of Foreign Languages,
Presbyterian Bible College, Taiwan.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Linguistics (Sept. 2002 ~ Nov. 2008)

Graduate Institue of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Dissertation: Intervention Effects and the Covert Component of Grammar
Thesis committee:Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, NTHU (advisor)
Jowang Lin, NCTUJonah Tzong-Hong Lin, NTHU
JNiina Zhang, NCCUJames C.-T. Huang, Harvard University
Chen-Sheng Luthur Liu, NCTU

M.A. in Linguistics (June 2002)

Graduate Institue of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
MA Thesis: Quantification and Scope Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
Thesis committee:Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, NTHU
Li-May Sung, NTUJonah Tzong-Hong Lin, NTHU

B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature (June 1992)

Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Journal Review for:

- Concentric
- Global Hakka Studies
- IBERIA
- International Journal of Chinese Linguistics (IJChL)
- Journal of East Asian Linguistics (JEAL)
- Journal of Linguistics
- Language and Linguistics
- Lingua
- Linguistic Inquiry
- Studies in Chinese Linguistics
- Taiwan Journal of Linguistics (TJL)
- UST Working Papers in Linguistics (USTWPL)

RESEARCH GRANTS & AWARDS

2024 Outstanding Research Award
National United University
2024 Project Title: The Syntactic Nature of Refutation
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC 113-2410-H-239-010)
2023 Project Title: On the Referentiality of Chinese Empty Subjects: Topic Licensing and Discourse Participants
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC 112-2410-H-239-001)
2022 National Science and Technology Council Grant for College and University Research Award - Excellent Level
National Science and Technology Council
2022 Project Title: Listen to my English: On the Accent Challenge of Bilingual Policy
Ministry of Education (PED1110158)
2022 Project Title: Force Shift and Subjectivity: Incorporating Attitude and Intention into Syntax
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 111-2410-H-239-004)
2021 Project Title: On the Spectrum of Negative Force at the Left Periphery
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 110-2410-H-239-003)
2020 Project Title: Grammatical Category, Syntactic Derivation and Discourse/Pragmatic Function: A Case Study on the Atypical Negative Construction ‘X-(you)-ge-head’
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 109-2410-H-239-016)
2019 Project Title: Revisiting Speaker Force and Beyond: Mapping Discourse/Pragmatics onto Syntax
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 108-2410-H-239-001)
2018 Project Title: On Speaker Force and Beyond: Mapping Discourse/Pragmatics onto Syntax
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 107-2410-H-239-008)
2017 Project Title: Wh-island Revisited
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 106-2410-H-239-005)
2016 Project Title: On the Position of ReasonP
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 105-2410-H-239-013)
2015 Project Title: Reason WHAT and Its Kin: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 104-2410-H-239-005)
2014 Project Title: On the Intervention Effects of the Atypical Wh-expressions in Mandarin Chinese
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 103-2410-H-239-010)
2013 Project Title: Null Subject, Topic Drop, and MCP
National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC 102-2410-H-239-002)
2012 Project Title: Reinvestigating the Ka7-construction in Taiwan Southern Min
National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC 101-2410-H-239-015)
2011 Project Title: Reinvestigating Null Subject Phenomena in Mandarin Chinese
National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC 99-2410-H-239-001)
2010 Project Title: A Cross-linguistic Study of Wh-intervention Effects
National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC 99-2410-H-239-001)

PUBLICATIONS

Huang, C.-T. James and Barry C.-Y. Yang (2024) “Locality, Focus and Covert Movement,” Journal of East Asian Linguistics 33.1, 3-33. SSCI. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-024-09273-1

Huang, C.-T. James and Barry C.-Y. Yang (2024) “Topic Drop and Pro Drop,” Language and Linguistics 25.1, 1-27. SSCI. THCI-Level 1. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00147.yan

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2024) “Revisiting Sentence-final Adjunct WHAT,” Language and Linguistics 25.1, 164-188. SSCI. THCI-Level 1. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00152.yan

Yang, Barry C.-Y., Ting-ting Christina Hsu, and Kazunori Kikushima (2021) “Rethinking Wh-island Effects in Chinese,” Studies in Chinese Linguistics 42:1, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2021-0005

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2021) “On the Position of ReasonP,” International Journal on Chinese Linguistics 8:2, 291-313. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.20017.yan

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2021) “Two Types of Peripheral Adjunct WHATs,” Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 47:1, 61-92. THCI-Level 1. https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.00023.yan

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2016) "Decomposing Polysemy: A Structural Perspective from the Ka-construction in Taiwan Southern Min," International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Volume 3, Issue 1, 132-159.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2015) “Locating Wh-intervention Effects at CP,” In Essays in the Cartography of Chinese Syntax, ed., Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai. Oxford University Press. Vol. 11, 153-186.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2014) “Chinese Null Subjects: A View from the Top,” in Huang, C.-T. James and Feng-hsi Liu, eds., Peaches and Plums, Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 54, 227-253, Academia Sinica, Taipei. (Published: July 24, 2014)

Takita, Kensuke and Barry C.-Y. Yang. (2014) On Multiple Wh-Questions with ‘Why’ in Japanese and Chinese. Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective, ed. by Mamoru Saito, 206-227. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. (Published: May 29, 2014)

Tomohiro, Fujii, Kensuke Takita, Barry C.-Y. Yang, and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai. (2014) “Comparative Remarks on Wh-adverbials In-situ in Japanese and Chinese,” in Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective, ed., Mamoru Saito. Oxford University Press. (Published: May 29, 2014)

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2012) “Intervention Effects and Wh-construals,” Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Volume 21, Issue 1, 43-87.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2007) "Intervention Effect, Wh-movement, and Focus," UST Working Papers in Linguistics, UST Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 3, 95-108.

Takita, K., Fuji, C. & Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2007) "Wh-Questions in Chinese and Japanese I: Anti-Crossing and Anti-Superiority," Nanzan Linguistics, Special Issue 1, Vol. 1, 99-112.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2006) "Syntactic Sturcture of Ka-Construction in Taiwanese Southern Min," UST Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2, 141-171.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2006) "On wh-nominal/adverb Interaction and Left Periphery," Nanzan Linguistics, Special Issue 1, Vol. 2, 165-186.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2005) "Subject Specificity, Predicate Distributivity, and Scope Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese," Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Vol. 3-1, 133-173.

CONFERENCE TALKS

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2023) “Licensing from the High Ground: on Force Shift, Subjectivity and Discourse Participants,” The 24th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS2023), July 08-09, 2023. Chuo University, Tokyo.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2023) “Chinese Empty Subjects: Topic Licensing, Intervention and Beyond,” The 13th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-13), May 12-14, 2023. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2022) “Force Shift and Subjectivity: Incorporating Attitude and Intention into Syntax,” FOSS-14, Oct. 21-22, 2022, National Taiwan University, Taipei.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2020) “Grammatical Category, Syntactic Derivation and Discourse/Pragmatic Function: A Case Study on the Atypical Negative Construction ‘X-(you)-ge-head,” FOSS-13, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2019) “Three Types of Peripheral Adjunct Wh-phrases Denoting Negation,” The 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC 3), 6–8 June 2019, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2018) “On the Metalinguistic Negation of Peripheral Adjunct WHAT and Related Issues,” ICFL-8, November 23-25, 2018, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2018) “How High Are the Higher Wh's,” The 20th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS2018), August 02-03, 2018, Bunkyo Gakuin University, Saitama, Japan.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2018) “Higher and Higher: A Probe into Speaker Force,” FOSS-12, April 27-28, 2018, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaoshiung.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2017) “Rethinking Wh-island Effects in Japanese and Chinese,” (Ed.) Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI - Volume 2, 243-249. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #85. Cambridge, MA.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2017) “On the Existence of SAP,” The 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 19), Seoul National University, Seoul, August 09-11, 2017.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2017) “Mapping Speech Act onto Syntax: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese,” The 19th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS2017), Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, July 1-2, 2017.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2017) “Rethinking Wh-island,’ GLOW in Asia X, poster session, National University of Singapore, Singapore, February 20–22.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2016) “Two Types of Sentence-final Adjunct WHAT,” The 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-7), Nankai University, Tianjin, December 2-4, 2016.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2016) “Wh-island and D-linking,” The 18th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS2016), University of Tokyo, Tokyo, June 4-5, 2016.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2015) “On the Position of ReasonP,” International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, December 6-7, 2015.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2015) “What for’ and Adjunct ‘What’,” The 10th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-10), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, June 13-14, 2015.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2014) “Shenme gen Shenme “What and What””, The 10th Workshop on Formal Syntax & Semantics (FOSS-10), National Quemoy University, Kinmen, Nov. 22-23, 2014.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2014) “When a Question Becomes Unquestionable”, The 6th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-2014), Tsinghua University, Beijing, Nov. 8-9, 2014.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2014) “Deriving the Illocutionary Force”, The 10th GLOW in Asia (GLOW in Asia X), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, May 24-26, 2014.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2014) “Beyond Interrogativity”, IACL-22 & NACCL-26 Joint Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2-4, 2014.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2013) “On the Speaker Force of Atypical Wh-expressions”, The 8th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-8), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, June 4-5, 2013.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2013) “Topic Drop and MCP”, The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, Jan. 3-6, 2013.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2012) “Licensing Extra-argumentality”, International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 15-16, 2012.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2011) “Topic Intervention”, the 5th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, Dec. 10-12, 2011.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2011) “Revisiting the Ka-construction in Taiwan Southern Min,” the 12th Conference on Min Languages, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Nov. 5-6, 2011.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2011) " Developing an Easy-Access Diagnostics for the Pretest of Remedial Instruction”, to be presented at The 28th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning in the R.O.C., National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, May 14-15, 2011.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2011) "On the Pretest of the Remedial Instruction”, 2011 International Conference and Workshop on TEFL & Applied Linguistics, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan, March 10-12, 2011.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2011) "On Topic/Focus Agreement and Movement”, the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics, Feb.12-13, 2011.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2010) "Licensing Null Subjects”, GLOW in Asia VIII, Beijing Language and Culture University, Aug. 12-14, 2010.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2010) "Null Subjects Revisited”, IACL-18 & NACCL-22, Harvard University, May 20-22, 2010.

Yang, Barry C.-Y., Liching Hung, Cara Hsu, Ji-Tai Jiang, and Ivy Jiang (2010) "Computer-based Language Diagnosis and Authenticity”, 2010 International Conference and Workshop on TEFL & Applied Linguistics, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, March 12-13, 2010.

Yang, Barry C.-Y., Liching Hung, Cara Hsu, Ji-Tai Jiang, and Ivy Jiang (2010) " Building Up an Interface of English Language Counseling”, 2010 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, April 15-17, 2010.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2009) "Two Types of Intervention Effects," paper presented at GLOW in Asia VII, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U), Hyderabad, India.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2008) "Focus Intervention Effects as Minimality Effects," NELS-39, Cornell University, NY, November 7-9, 2008.

Takita, K, Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2007) "Feature Valuation and Antisuperiority," paper presented at GLOW in Asia, Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 27-29, 2007.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2007) "Intervention Effects in the Left Periphery," poster session, Connecticut-Siena-Nanzan Joint Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, Feb. 20-21, 2007.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2006) "Intervention Effects and Left Periphery," paper presented at 8th Seoul International Conference On Generative Grammar, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, August 9-12, 2006.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2006) "A Note on Island Repair," paper presented at 2006 KALS-KASELL International Conference on English Language and Linguistics, National Pusan University, 29-30 June, 2006.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2006) "The Nature of Intervention Effects," IACL-14&IsCLL-10, May 25-29, 2006, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Yuan, Hua-Hung and Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2006) "Bare Noun and Telicity," IACL-14&IsCLL-10, May 25-29, 2006, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2005) "Indefinite and Temporal Reference," paper presented at 7th Seoul International Conference On Generative Grammar (SICOGG7), Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, August 8-11, 2005.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2005) "Aspect as an Intervener," paper presented at 3rd TEAL Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 22-23, 2005.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2005) "Taiwanese Ka-Construction: From Coordination to Complementation," paper presented at 2005 National Conference on Linguistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 2-3, 2005.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2005) "Aspect as an Intervener," paper presented at IACL-13, Leiden University, June 9-11, 2005.

Yang, Barry C.-Y. (2004) "Specificity and Temporal Reference," poster for the 2nd TEAL Workshop, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2003) "Subject Specificity, Predicate Distributivity, and Scope Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese," paper presented at 2003 National Conference on Linguistics (NCL-2003), National Kaoshung Normal University, Kaoshung, Taiwan, June 27, 2003.

Tsai, W.-T. Dylan and Barry C.-Y. Yang (2002) "On Licensing Universal Quantification in Mandarin Chinese," paper presented in the 11th Annual Meeting of International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya, Japan, August 20-22, 2002.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2002) "On Mei…Dou Construction and Its Scope Interpretation," paper presented at 2002 National Conference on Linguistics (NCL-2002), Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan, July 1-2, 2002.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2002) "On the Licensing of Quantificational Force," paper presented at NACCL-14, University of Arizona, May 17-19, 2002.

Liou, Hsien-Chin and Barry Chung-Yu Yang (2002) "Building a Virtual Community MOO for Pre-service English Teachers," paper presented at CETL-19, Shi-Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 8-9, 2002.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2002) "Licensing Conditions on Chinese NPI Renhe 'Any'," paper presented at UTASCIL-9, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, U.S.A., Feb. 21-22, 2002.

Yang, Barry Chung-Yu (2001) "Indefinite Wh - A Corpus-Based Study," paper presented at 2001 National Conference on Linguistics (NCL-2001), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 1-2, 2001.

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