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Editorial Work

Franke, Michael & Kompa, Nikola & Liu, Mingya & Mueller, Jutta L. & Schwab, Juliane (eds.). 2020. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24,2 Vol. 2. Universität Osnabrück and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/28
Franke, Michael & Kompa, Nikola & Liu, Mingya & Müller, Jutta & Schwab, Juliane (eds.). 2020. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24,1 Vol. 1. Universität Osnabrück and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/27
Liu, Mingya (ed.). 2019. Natural Language Conditionals and Conditional Reasoning. De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0003)
Iordachioaia, Gianina & Liu, Mingya (eds.). 2018. Positive Polarity: Data and Theory. De Gruyter Mouton.

Monographs

Barthel, Mathias. 2020. Speech planning in dialogue. MPI Series in Psycholinguistics 150. Nijmegen: Radboud University Nijmegen dissertation. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-7233-1
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Articles

Barthel, Mathias & Tomasello, Rosario & Liu, Mingya. 2024. Conditionals in context: Brain signatures of prediction in discourse processing. Cognition 242. 105635. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105635
Liu, Mingya & Schwab, Juliane. 2022. Attenuating NPIs in indicative and counterfactual conditionals. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 772-789 Pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/SUB/2022.V26I0.1029
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2022. Jiu -conditionals in Mandarin Chinese: thoughts on a uniform pragmatic analysis of Mandarin conditional constructions. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s4). 435–446. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0036
Barthel, Mathias & Tomasello, Rosario & Liu, Mingya. 2022. Online comprehension of conditionals in context: A self-paced reading study on wenn (‘if’) versus nur wenn (‘only if’) in German. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s4). 371–381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0083
Schwab, Juliane & Liu, Mingya. 2022. Processing Attenuating NPIs in Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals. Frontiers in Psychology 13. 894396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894396
Liu, Mingya. 2021. Processing Non-at-Issue Meanings of Conditional Connectives: The wenn/falls Contrast in German. Frontiers in Psychology 12. 629177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629177
Liu, Mingya & Barthel, Mathias. 2021. Semantics Processing of Conditional Connectives: German wenn ‘if’ Versus nur wenn ‘only if.’ Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 50(6). 1337–1368. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09812-0
Liu, Mingya & Rotter, Stephanie & Giannakidou, Anastasia. 2021. Bias and Modality in Conditionals: Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Implications. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 50(6). 1369–1399. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09813-z
Dudschig, Carolin & Kaup, Barbara & Liu, Mingya & Schwab, Juliane. 2021. The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 50(6). 1199–1213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09817-9
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2021. Speaker Commitment in Mandarin Conditional Connectives: Distributional and Experimental Evidence. In Liu, Meichun & Kit, Chunyu & Su, Qi (eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics, Vol. 12278, 810–823. Cham: Springer International Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_67
Barthel, Mathias & Levinson, Stephen C. 2020. Next speakers plan word forms in overlap with the incoming turn: Evidence from gaze-contingent switch task performance. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 1–20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1716030
Liu, Mingya. 2019. The elastic nonveridicality property of indicative conditionals. Linguistics Vanguard 5(s3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0007
Liu, Mingya. 2019. Current issues in conditionals. Linguistics Vanguard 5(s3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0003
Liu, Mingya & König, Peter & Mueller, Jutta L. 2019. Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive Polarity Items in German. Frontiers in Psychology 10. 376. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00376
Liu, Mingya. 2019. Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 54th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS54),. University of Chicago.
Liu, Mingya. 2019. The semantics and pragmatics of chadian mei in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistische Berichte 258.
Liu, Mingya & Iordăchioaia, Gianina. 2018. Introduction: Current perspectives on positive polarity. Linguistics 56(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0043
Liu, Mingya. 2017. Negative Entailment, Positive Implicature and Polarity Items. In Lee, Chungmin (ed.), Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures, 227–244. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-10106-4_11

Talks

Barthel, Mathias & Liu, Mingya. 2021, July. Interpreting conditional connectives: bi-conditionality and conditional perfection. Talk, Torino, Italy.
Barthel, Mathias & Liu, Mingya. 2021, May. The processing of (bi-)conditionality in natural language. Talk, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Liu, Mingya & Barthel, Mathias. 2020. The Semantics, Pragmatics and Processing of Conditional Connectives - German wenn, wur Wenn, and wenn und nur wenn. Talk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, online.
Liu, Mingya & Schwab, Juliane. 2019, September. Multiple cue integration in discourse expectations: experimenting with German zwar...aber vs. English sure...but. Talk, ZAS Berlin. Retrieved from https://www.leibniz-zas.de/fileadmin/Archiv2019/mitarbeiter/solstad/liu_and_schwab.pdf
Liu, Mingya. 2019, September. Semantic causality hidden in Mandarin counterfactual conditionals. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Liu, Mingya. 2019, September. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives. Invited talk, University of Cologne.
Liu, Mingya. 2019, June. Causal Inference by Mandarin Counterfactuals. Talk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2019, March. Degree Pragmatics of Mandarin Conditional Connectives. Talk, Nanjing University.
Liu, Mingya. 2019, March. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives. Invited talk, Bremen.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, December. Speaker commitment of different dimensions: conditional connectives and polarity items. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, July. Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Polarity Sensitivity. Talk, Beijing Normal University.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, July. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives. Invited talk, Beijing Normal University.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, April. The wenn/falls contrast in German: with experimental evidence. Talk, UC Berkeley, CA.
Liu, Mingya. 2017, September. Deriving the wenn/falls Contrast in German as Scalar Implicature: with experimental evidence. Talk, University of Cologne.
Liu, Mingya & König, Peter & Müller, Jutta. 2017, June. Electrophysiological signatures of negative and positive polarity processing in German sentence comprehension. Talk, University of Bochum.

Posters

Barthel, Mathias & Tomasello, Rosario & Liu, Mingya. 2021, July. Brain signatures of processing conditionals: semantic vs. pragmatic bi-conditionality. Poster, Torino, Italy.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2020, May. Non-at-issue Meanings of Mandarin Conditional Connectives. Poster, City University of Hong Kong.
Schwab, Juliane & Müller, Jutta & Liu, Mingya. 2020, March. Is “sonderlich” losing its NPI status? Poster, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2019, November. Non-at-issue meanings of Mandarin conditional connectives. Poster, ZAS Berlin.
Schwab, Juliane & Liu, Mingya. 2019, September. Expectation-based sentence processing in prospective NPI licensing. Poster, Cagliari, Italien.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2019, June. Non-at-issue Meanings of Mandarin Conditional Connectives. Poster, Edinburgh.
Liu, Mingya & Xiang, Ming. 2018, September. Anti-Locality Effect Without Verb - Final Dependecies. Poster, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Retrieved from https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~knoeferp/AMLaP2018/Program_files/AMLaP2018_proceedings.pdf
Liu, Mingya. 2018, June. Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning. Poster, Graz, Austria.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, May. Semantic and Pragmatic Modulations of the Conditional Discourse Relation. Poster, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, April. Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning. Poster, University of Chicago.