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Jiang Wu

Postdoc

Name
Dr. J. Wu
Telephone
+31 71 527 2125
E-mail
j.wu@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3195-9372

Jiang Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Linguistics. He is currently involved in the NWO-funded project "On the representation of quantity: how our brains shape language".

More information about Jiang Wu

Fields of interest

  • Semantics
  • Experimental methods
  • Cross-linguistic variation
  • Austronesian linguistics
  • Malayic languages
  • Language contact
  • Typology

Research

My postdoc research focuses on cross-linguistic semantic variation, specifically regarding quantity expressions. I am interested in whether genetically unrelated languages share similar properties in their use of quantity expressions and how this aligns with the broader cognition of number and quantity.

Prior to the current project, my training mainly encompassed descriptive and historical linguistics, as well as linguistic typology. I had a specific focus on Austronesian and Malayic languages, which constituted the primary subject of my PhD dissertation.

Grants and awards

  • 2017: NWO "PhDs in the Humanities"

Curriculum vitae

2023-present Postdoctoral researcher, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2017-2023 PhD in linguistics (cum laude), Malayic varieties in Kelantan and Terengganu: Description and linguistic history, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2015-2017

ResMA in linguistics (cum laude), Leiden University

2010-2014 BA in Malay language and literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

 

Postdoc

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL Frans

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 0.44

Contact

  • Koninklijke Brill NV Freelance editor for the publication of Linguistic Bibliography and Linguistic Bibliography Online
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