Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Language Development
Clark Hall 491
San José State University
Publications
Talks
CV, Google Scholar
Contact:
yining.nie(æt)sjsu.edu
I am a linguist specializing in comparative syntax and morphology, especially in the domain of argument structure. My research incorporates syntactic theory and insights from typology and experimental methods. I have a particular interest in causative constructions and Austronesian languages.
In addition to teaching syntax and semantics at San José State, I am also affiliated with the ERC-funded LeibnizDream project. I received my PhD from New York University. I’m from the southernmost city in Canada. 🇨🇦
How to pronounce my name: [jɪˈnɪŋ ˈniː], I also accept [ˈjɪnɪŋ]
Adjective ordering in Iu Mien.
SEALS 33 talk (with Low Saelee), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. [website]
Invited talk, AFLA 31, University of Massachusetts Amherst. [website]
What can Tagalog teach us about causation?
Invited talk, The impact of Tagalog in Psycholinguistics and Formal Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London. [website]
Ordering preferences in Ukrainian multiple wh-fronting.
To appear, Proceedings of LSA 2024 (with Ruby Buenrostro). [paper]
Errors of multiple exponence in Child English: A study of past tense formation.
Accepted, Morphology (pending revisions, with Johannes Hein, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin and Artemis Alexiadou).
Interpreting causatives: The case of faire se in French and Italian.
LSA 2024 poster (with Fabienne Martin, Chiara Dal Farra and Silvia Silleresi), New York City. [poster]
Applicative recursion and nominal licensing.
Linguistic Inquiry (early access). DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00513
Nie, Yining. 2020. Licensing arguments. New York University: PhD dissertation.
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Manova, Stela, Harald Hammarström, Itamar Kastner and Yining Nie. 2020. What is in a morpheme? Special issue of Word Structure 13(1). Edinburgh University Press. ISSN: 1750-1245.
Buenrostro, Ruby and Yining Nie. To appear. Ordering preferences in Ukrainian multiple wh-fronting.
Proceedings of LSA 2024. [paper]
Hein, Johannes, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie and Artemis Alexiadou. Accepted. Errors of multiple exponence in Child English: A study of past tense formation.
Morphology (pending revisions).
Nie, Yining. 2023. Applicative recursion and nominal licensing.
Linguistic Inquiry (early access). DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00513
Hein, Johannes, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie and Artemis Alexiadou. To appear. Errors of multiple exponence in child language.
Proceedings of WCCFL 40. [paper]
Lee, Soo-Hwan and Yining Nie. 2022. Korean case stacking and the nominal template.
Proceedings of PLC 45. [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2022. Turkish causatives are recursive: A response to Key 2013.
Linguistic Inquiry (early access). DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00472
Martin, Fabienne, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou and Maria Teresa Guasti. 2022. Wearing causation on its sleeve: Overt cause in child French causatives.
Proceedings of BUCLD 46. [paper]
Kouneli, Maria and Yining Nie. 2021. Across-the-board tonal polarity in Kipsigis: Implications for the morphology-phonology interface.
Language 97(2). e111-e138. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2021.0030 [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2020. Morphological causatives are Voice over Voice.
Word Structure 13(1). 102-126. DOI: 10.3366/word.2020.0161 [paper]
Manova, Stela, Harald Hammarström, Itamar Kastner and Yining Nie. 2020. What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to the relation of meaning and form in morphology.
Word Structure 13(1). 1-21. DOI: 10.3366/word.2020.0157 [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2019. Raising applicatives and possessors in Tagalog.
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1), 139. 1-30. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.941
Warstadt, Alex, Yu Cao, Ioana Grosu, Wei Peng, Hagen Blix, Yining Nie, Anna Alsop, Shikha Bordia, Haokun Liu, Alicia Parrish, Sheng-Fu Wang, Jason Phang, Anhad Mohananey, Phu Mon Htut, Paloma Jeretic and Samuel R. Bowman. 2019. Investigating BERT’s Knowledge of Language: Five Analysis Methods with NPIs.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2019. DOI: 10.18653/v1/D19-1286
Hsieh, Henrison and Yining Nie. 2018. Where (and what) the Tagalog kung-CPs are.
McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25. [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2018. Contrast and prosody in derived environment effects.
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 40. [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2017. Voice morphology and the features of transitivity.
New York University: ms. [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2017. Why is there NOM-NOM and ACC-ACC but no ERG-ERG?
Proceedings of NELS 47. [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2017. Phonetic enhancement and three patterns of English a-tensing.
Proceedings of PLC 40. [paper]
Nie, Yining. 2015. Tense and modality in French verbal morphology.
Proceedings of CLA 2015. [paper]
Buenrostro, Ruby and Yining Nie. 2024. Ordering preferences in Ukrainian multiple wh-fronting.
LSA 2024, New York City. [slides]
Nie, Yining, Fabienne Martin, Chiara Dal Farra and Silvia Silleresi. 2024. Interpreting causatives: The case of faire se in French and Italian.
LSA 2024, New York City. [poster]
Nie, Yining and Henrison Hsieh. 2023. Tagalog valency morphology and its neutralization.
AFLA 30, Lund University, Sweden. [slides]
Martin, Fabienne, Yining Nie, Silvia Silleresi, Chiara Dal Farra, Artemis Alexiadou and Maria Teresa Guasti. 2023. Agent bias in child Italian event descriptions.
LSA 2023, Denver, CO. [slides]
Silleresi, Silvia, Chiara Dal Farra, Yining Nie, Fabienne Martin, Artemis Alexiadou and Maria Teresa Guasti. 2022. The agent bias holds in production too: Event descriptions in child Italian.
BUCLD 47, Boston University. [slides]
Nie, Yining. 2022. Recursion and thematic relations in causatives.
BCGL 15, CRISSP, KU Leuven, Belgium. [slides]
Hein, Johannes, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie and Artemis Alexiadou. 2022. Errors of multiple exponence in child language.
WCCFL 40, Stanford University (virtual). [slides]
Martin, Fabienne, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou and Maria Teresa Guasti. 2021. Wearing causation on its sleeve: Overt cause in child French causatives.
BUCLD 46, Boston University. [slides]
Hsieh, Henrison and Yining Nie. 2020. Tagalog gerunds are antipassive.
“Remarks: the Legacy” Workshop, GLOW 43, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (virtual). [handout]