Chyan-an Arthur Wang
Birthplace: Changhua, Taiwan
E-Mail: cawang@nyu.edu

I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in Department of Linguistics, New York University. My research interests include (comparative) syntax, typological studies and semantics. My native languages are Taiwanese Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese.

Education

M.A. in Linguistics, June 2002
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Thesis: On Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese
Advisor: Wei-tien Dylan Tsai

B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature, June 1999
National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Presentations

October 13-15, 2006
Sluicing and Resumption
Paper presented at the 37th NELS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

April 6-9, 2006
Negation and Quantification in Kabiye,
Paper presented at 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Oregon

February 25-27, 2005
Sluicing and Focus Movement in Wh-in-situ Languages,
Paper presented at the 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania
(co-author with Hsiao-hung Iris Wu from MIT)

August 2003
The Grammar of Silence in Chinese,
Paper presented at the Third Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Belgium
(co-author with Hsiao-hung Iris Wu from MIT)

August 2002
Sluicing in Chinese,
Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-11), Nagoya, Japan

June 2002
Sluicing, Multiple Wh-constructions and Focus Projection in Mandarin Chinese,
Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Hunan, China

July 2001
Economy of Derivation on Chinese Multiple Wh-constructions,
Proceedings of 2001 National Conference of Linguistics, Taiwan

Honors

Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, 2004-2009
Graduate School of Arts and Science,
New York University

International Visiting Scholarship, 2002
College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
National Tsing Hua University

The Presidential Award for Academic Excellence, 1999
Tuition and Fee Waiver
National Chung Cheng University

The Presidential Award for Academic Excellence, 1998
Tuition and Fee Waiver
National Chung Cheng University

Teaching

Fall 2006
TA for Introduction to Linguistics
w/ Maria Gouskova

Spring 2005
TA for Communication: Men, Minds & Machines
w/ Ray C. Dougherty




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