Hooi Ling Soh

About

Hooi Ling Soh is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 1998, with a dissertation on Object Scrambling in Chinese, and her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Calgary in 1994. Her research focuses on fundamental questions in linguistics regarding innate versus acquired linguistic knowledge, investigating universal principles that govern sentence structure and interpretation across languages. Her work particularly emphasizes how aspectual information and discourse particles are represented in the mind of the speaker, with a primary focus on languages spoken in East and Southeast Asia, including Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and Hmong. Her research has been supported by various foundations and institutional grants, and she has contributed extensively to the understanding of syntax, semantics, and the interface between syntax and semantics in these languages.

Research topics

• Linguistics
• Philosophy
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Gender studies
• History

Selected publications

• Speaker presupposition and Mandarin Chinese sentence-final -le: a unified analysis of the “change of state” and the “contrary to expectation” reading

  Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2009-05-08 · 51 citations

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• Ellipsis, Last Resort, and the Dummy Auxiliary <i>shi</i> ‘be’ in Mandarin Chinese

  Linguistic Inquiry · 2007-01-01 · 21 citations

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  January 01 2007 Ellipsis, Last Resort, and the Dummy Auxiliary shi 'be' in Mandarin Chinese In Special Collection: CogNet Hooi Ling Soh Hooi Ling Soh University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Hooi Ling Soh University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Linguistic Inquiry (2007) 38 (1): 178–188. https://doi.org/10.1162/lin…

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• The Malay verbal prefix meN- and the unergative/unaccusative distinction

  Journal of East Asian Linguistics · 2011-01-19 · 17 citations

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• Aspect

  2014-02-21 · 12 citations

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• It’s over

  Pragmatics & beyond. New series · 2007-05-15 · 6 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Hiroki Nomoto

  5 shared

• Meijia Gao

  4 shared

• Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo

  National Chiayi University

  3 shared

• Andrew Simpson

  University of Southern California

  2 shared

• Mei Jia Gao

  Bengbu Medical College

  2 shared

• Sylvain Bromberger

  1 shared

• Feng-fan Hsieh

  1 shared

• Cédric Boeckx

  Universitat de Barcelona

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Editorial Board (Dece…
• International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISM…
• The 8th Triple A Workshop for Semantic Field Workers Keynote…

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