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]
Ordering preferences in Ukrainian multiple wh-fronting.
LSA 2024 talk (with Ruby Buenrostro), New York City.
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.
Tagalog valency morphology and its neutralization.
AFLA 30 talk (with Henrison Hsieh), Lund University, Sweden. [slides]
Applicative recursion and nominal licensing.
Linguistic Inquiry (early access). DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00513 [paper]
Errors of multiple exponence in child language.
Proceedings of WCCFL 40 (to appear, with Johannes Hein, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin and Artemis Alexiadou). [paper]
Korean case stacking and the nominal template.
Proceedings of PLC 45 (with Soo-Hwan Lee). [paper]
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.
Nie, Yining. 2023. Applicative recursion and nominal licensing.
Linguistic Inquiry (early access). DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00513 [paper]
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 [paper]
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]
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]