Mingming Liu

I am an associate professor of linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Tsinghua University. Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D in the Rutgers Department of Linguistics, and briefly worked at Hunan University.

My research focuses on the semantics of natural language, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, from a cross-linguistic perspective. The phenomena I have worked on include focus particles (e.g. only, even, also and the famous Mandarin dou), quantification (universal quantification, wh-quantification), conditionals and exceptives.

At Tsinghua I teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in formal semantics and pragmatics. I also teach a seminar in each Spring semester that focuses on a specific topic in Mandarin grammar.

I collaborate with my colleagues from the philosophy department, and we have been organizing TLLM (Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning) since 2019.