Muyi Yang. 2023. Varieties of Conditionals as Definite Descriptions. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Connecticut. (link)
Peer-reviewed articles
Muyi Yang. 2022. Iffy discourse: Japanese moshi in conditionals and nominal topics. Natural Language Conditionals and Conditional Reasoning, Special Issue of Linguistics Vanguard. (link)
Conference proceedings
Muyi Yang. 2022. Singularity and plurality of discourse reference to worlds. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32. (link)
Muyi Yang. 2022. The closeness constraint on focus association and the syntax of Q-particles. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 7(1), 5291. (link)
Muyi Yang. 2021. Sensitive to future: the case of Japanese nara-conditionals. In Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 18, 119-132. (paper)
Muyi Yang. 2021. Disambiguating two conditional construals: Evidence from the optionality of if. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 25. (link)
Muyi Yang and Teruyuki Mizuno. 2019. On the discourse dynamics of Exceptional what-Questions. In Proceedings of The 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia 12) and the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 21), 245–264. (preprint)
Muyi Yang. 2019. Causal networks in discourse: A case of Mandarin negative conditionals. In Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 49, 319–332. (preprint)
Manuscripts
A phase-based analysis of Sinhala Q-particle: New evidence from focus and verbal morphology. Second generals paper, University of Connecticut.