Name: Qianping Gu
Gender: female
Title：Dr.
E-mail: guqianping@seu.edu.cn
Address：School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University
Research Area:
Semantics; Syntax-semantics interface; Chinese Linguistics
Education:
2013.08–2020.05: Ph.D. in Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
2011.09–2011.11: M.A. in Linguistics, The University of Manchester, UK
2008.09–2011.06: M.A. in Applied Linguistics, Southwest University, China
2004.09–2008.06: B.A. in English, Southwest University, China
Other Education:
2016.08: DGfS Summer School, Tübingen University, Germany
Work Experience:
2020.11–now: School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, Lecturer
2024.02–2025.02: The Ohio State University, Postdoc
2016.08–2016.12: The University of Texas at Austin, Instructor
2014.08–2019.12: The University of Texas at Austin, Teaching Assistant
Publications:
2023/2022: Gu. Telicization in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Linguistics.
2023: Zhang & Gu. A pragmatic analysis of conversations in A Woman on a Roof in terms of Grice’ conversational implicatures. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences.
2022: Gu & Adil. The L3 acquisition of English tense-aspect system by Uygur speakers with L2 Mandarin Chinese. Forum for Linguistic Studies.
2017: Gu. A Corpus-Based Comparative Study on the Superlative Forms in British English and Singapore Colloquial English. WORD.
2010: Gu. An Object Relation Analysis of Blanche’s Schizophrenia in A Streetcar Named Desire. Journal of Changzhou Institute of Technology (Social Sciences edition).
Grants:
2023.5–now：An antipresuppositional analysis of informativeness in Chinese, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
2022.5–2023.5：Noun incorporation in Mandarin Chinese, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
Conferences:
2024.02: Informativeness of Mandarin Chinese Final le Sentences: An Antipresuppositional Account, Texas Linguistic Society, The University of Texas at Austin.
2021.10: The Syntax of Mandarin Chinese Final-le Sentences and Object Incorporation, The Fourth
International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (4th IWSC), Beijing Language and Culture University.
2017.09: An Analysis of Telicizing Morphemes in Mandarin Chinese, Texas Linguistic Society, The University of Texas at Austin.
2017.05: Telicity in Mandarin Chinese, 62nd Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association, City University of Hong Kong.
Academic Services:
2023–now: Reviewer: Language (the journal of the Linguistic Society of America)
2014–2015: Conference Organization Committee Member: Texas Linguistics Society (TLS)
Honors & Awards:
2023: Received funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for an overseas postdoctoral project.
2022: Awarded the “Anna Siewierska Prize” from Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB) for the article “Telicization in Mandarin Chinese”.
2021: Received the title of “Doctor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, Jiangsu Province.
2019: Awarded “Dissertation Writing Scholarship”, The University of Texas at Austin.
2013–2014: Awarded a graduate student Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin.
2012: Graduate with Merit, The University of Manchester.
2009–2010: Received the title of “Outstanding Graduate Student” from the School of Foreign Languages, Southwest University.
