Niina Ning Zhang
Niina Ning Zhang (born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, PR China) is a theoretical linguist specializing in Mandarin Chinese syntax and semantics. Education and career. Zhang obtained her M.A. degree in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University, Ph.D. degrees in linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University and, in 1997, from the University of Toronto, Canada. In 1997-2003, she was a researcher in (ZAS). Now she is a professor of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University. She has also taught linguistic courses in Guangxi Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University, University of Toronto, and Humboldt-Universitaet  zu Berlin. In 2009, she was awarded the "Young Scholar Award" from Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research specialty is formal syntax, especially the syntax of coordinate constructions. In her book Coordination in Syntax (2010 Cambridge University Press), she argues for four radical claims: (1) conjuncts are syntactically asymmetrical; (2) there is no independent syntactic category for coordinators; (3) Ross's (1967) Coordinate Structure Constraint is not a construction-specific syntactic constraint; (4) Across-The-Board Movement does not exist.