Presentations | Muyi Yang

Invited talks

Muyi Yang. 2021 “Sensitive to future: the discourse dynamics of Japanese nara-conditionals”. Talk at Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai, online, September 18, 2021.
Muyi Yang. 2021 “Distributive updates in conditionals: a dynamic account of optional conditional markers”. Talk at Language and Logic Forum: Conditionals in Chinese [2021 年语言与逻辑研讨会 (汉语中的条件句)], Beijing Normal University, online, June 26-27, 2021.
Muyi Yang. 2021 “Distributive updates in conditional: the cases of Japanese moshi”. Talk at Zyookenditionals: Conditionals in Japanese, English, and beyond (workshop sponsored by KAKEN, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), online, June 17, 2021.
Muyi Yang. 2021 “Sinhala wh-questions revisited: It’s all about focus”. Talk at Syntax+, University of Southern California, online, February 2021.
Muyi Yang. 2021 “Iffy if: Japanese moshi in conditionals and related constructions”. Invited talk at the Semantics Colloquium at Goethe University Frankfurt, online, January 21, 2021.
Muyi Yang. 2019 “Explaining negative counterfactuals.” Invited talk at the annual workshop of the UConn Logic Group: “If” by any other name. April 6, 2019. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations

Muyi Yang. 2022. “Singularity and plurality of discourse reference to worlds.” Talk at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32, El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), June 8-10, 2022. (slides)
Muyi Yang. 2022. “Referentiality and plurality in conditionals.” Talk at Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) Semantics Conference, Tokyo/online, March 2-4, 2022.
Muyi Yang. 2022. “The closeness constraint on focus association and the syntax of Q-particles.” Talk at The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022. (slides)
Muyi Yang. 2021. “Sensitive to future: the case of Japanese nara-conditionals.” Talk at Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18), online, November 13-15, 2021. (slides)
Muyi Yang. 2021. “Iffy discourse: Japanese moshi in conditionals and nominal topics.” Talk at The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives (Workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS), University of Freiburg, February 24-26, 2021. (slides)
Muyi Yang. 2020. Distributivity and collectivity in the world domain: Evidence from Japanese modality” Talk at the 161th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, online, November 21-22, 2020. (pre-proceedings)(slides)
Muyi Yang. 2020. “Disambiguating two conditional construals: Evidence from the optionality of if.” Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 25, online, University College London and Queen Mary University of London, September 2020. (slides)
Muyi Yang and Teruyuki Mizuno Mizuno. 2019 “On the discourse dynamics of Exceptional what-Questions.” Talk at 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), August 7–9, 2019, Dongguk University in Seoul, Korea.
Muyi Yang. 2018. “Causal networks in discourse: A case of Mandarin negative conditionals.” Talk at The 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49). October 5–7, 2018, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang. 2018 “Toward a unified analysis of Japanese evidential youda: a Causal Bayesian approach.” Poster at The 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49). October 5–7, 2018, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Muyi Yang. 2018 “Possessor raising in Mandarin unaccusatives.” Talk at The 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. June 23–24, 2018, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Muyi Yang. 2016 “Wonder is NOT want to know: Question-taking embedded verbs revisited.” Talk at The 153rd Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. December 3–4, 2016, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan. (In Japanese) [“Wonder is NOT want to know: 埋め込み疑問節を取る動詞の再考” 日本言語学会第 153 回大会口頭発表.]
Lukas Rieser, Yu Izumi, Magdalena Kaufmann, Stefan Kaufmann and Muyi Yang. 2016 “What -tai teaches us about wanting.” Poster presentation at The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (J/K). October 14–16, 2016, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.