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Gan Tian

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Gan Tian, female, assistant researcher. She joined theCollegeof International Education at Shandong University in 2021.

Education background:

She obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the Department of Translation and Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong from September 2017 to July 2021.

She obtained a Master's degree in Literature from the School of Literature at Capital Normal University from September 2014 to July 2017.

From September 2010 to July 2014, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Literature at Capital Normal University.

Researchareas:

Theoretical Linguistics: Research on Grammar, Semantics, and Second Language Acquisition Related to Chinese (Quantitative Words, Ambiguity, "de" Character Structure, etc.)

Applied Linguistics: Experimental Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Teaching (Chinese Double Object Sentences, Ba Sentences, Focus Structures, etc.)

Course taught:She mainly teaches the course "Modern Chinese" to undergraduate students from China and abroad.

Overseas experience:From 2017 to 2021, she studied in Hong Kong and obtained a doctoral degree.

Academic research:

Papers:

1. Gan, T., & Tsai, C. E. (2020). The syntax of Mandarin dative alternation: An argument from quantifier scope interpretation (汉语与格结构的句法分析). International Journal of Chinese Linguistics (国际中国语言学报), 7(2), 187–222.

2.Gan, T., & Tsai, C. E. (2019). Quantifier scope ambiguity in Mandarin dative constructions (汉语与格结构中量化词的辖域歧义性). In S.-Y. Cho (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th Generative Linguistics in the Old World & the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (GLOW in Asia XII & SICOGG XXI) (pp. 458–466).

Project:

1. Research on Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Quantitative System, November 2021 to present, currently in progress

2. Scope Ambiguity in Chinese: Experimental Explorations (Exploring the Domain Ambiguity of Chinese Quantitative Words from an Experimental Perspective), January 2020 to present, currently under research

Contact her:tiangan@email.sdu.edu.cn