I am a lecturer at Division of Language and Culture, Graduae School of Humanities, Osaka University. I mainly work on formal semantics and pragmatics.
I received my PhD in Linguistics from University of Connecticut.
Here's my CV.
Email:
muyi.yang.ym@gmail.com
Yang, Muyi (2023) Varieties of Conditionals as Definite Descriptions. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Connecticut. (link)
Yang, Muyi (under review) Plurality of discourse reference to situations and worlds.
Yang, Muyi (in prep) Plurality of propositions revisited. Squib
Nicolae, Andreea, Yasutada Sudo and Muyi Yang (2024) On the anti-exhaustive inference of ya. In Proceedings of Amsterdam Colloquium 2024.
Kaufmann, Magdalena, Stefan Kaufmann, Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang (To appear) Problem solving with Japanese 'beki'. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28.
Yang, Muyi (2022) Singularity and plurality of discourse reference to worlds. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32. doi: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5341
Yang, Muyi (2022) Iffy discourse: Japanese moshi in conditionals and nominal topics. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s4): 421-433. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0034
Yang, Muyi (2022) The closeness constraint on focus association and the syntax of Q-particles. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7(1): 5291. doi: 10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5291
Yang, Muyi (2021) Sensitive to future: the case of Japanese nara-conditionals. In Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 18.
Yang, Muyi (2021) Disambiguating two conditional construals: Evidence from the optionality of 'if'. In Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 25, 891–907. doi: 10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.973
Yang, Muyi and Teruyuki Mizuno (2019) On the discourse dynamics of Exceptional what-Questions. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia 12 and SICOGG 21, 255-274.
Yang, Muyi (2019) Causal networks in discourse: A case of Mandarin negative conditionals. In Proceedings of NELS 49, vol. 3, 305-317.
Nicolae, Andreea, Yasutada Sudo and Muyi Yang (2024) On the anti-exhaustive inference of ya. Poster at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024, University of Amsterdam, December 18–20, 2024.
Yang, Muyi (2024) Title TBA. Colloquium talk at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), December 16, 2024.
Yang, Muyi (2024) Conditionals meet anaphoricity: Why some interrogatives about conditionals can’t be asked. Talk at Japanese/Korean Linguistic Conference 31. Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia. October 30-November 2, 2024.
Yamada, Akitaka, Eri Tanaka, Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang (2024) Specificity triggered by naming restrictions in Japanese. Poster at Japanese/Korean Linguistic Conference 31. Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia. October 30-November 2, 2024.
Yang, Muyi (2024) Conditionals meet anaphoricity: Why some interrogatives about conditionals can’t be asked. Talk at 2024 SMOG International Conference on Syntax and Semantics. Andong National University, Korea. Augst 19-21, 2024. (slides)
Sudo, Yasutada and Muyi Yang (2024) Modal cumulativity. Talk at Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai. Nagoya Gakuin University. May 12, 2024.
Kaufmann, Magdalena, Stefan Kaufmann, Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang (2023) Problem solving with Japanese 'beki'. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung 28. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. September 5-9, 2024.
Yang, Muyi (2023) Back to Boolean: Rethinking clausal conjunctions in attitude ascriptions. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 28. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. September 5-9, 2024.
Yang, Muyi (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, Mexico. June 8-10, 2022.