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Editorial Work

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
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
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 Meichun Liu & Chunyu Kit & Qi Su (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. Current issues in conditionals. Linguistics Vanguard 5(s3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0003
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 & 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 Chungmin Lee (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 presented at the 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2021), Torino, Italy.
Barthel, Mathias & Liu, Mingya. 2021, May. The processing of (bi-)conditionality in natural language. Talk presented at the Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2020 conference (postponed), 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 presented at the Processing of Negation and Polarity, 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 presented at the Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC 2019), 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 presented at the Workshop on Contrasting Underspecification and Overspecification of Discourse relations, ZAS Berlin.
Liu, Mingya. 2019, September. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives. Invited talk presented at the German Department, University of Cologne.
Liu, Mingya. 2019, June. Causal Inference by Mandarin Counterfactuals. Talk presented at the Panel “Counterfactuals in Chinese Languages” of the 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2019, March. Degree Pragmatics of Mandarin Conditional Connectives. Talk presented at the International Workshop on “Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective”, Nanjing University.
Liu, Mingya. 2019, March. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives. Invited talk presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Bremen.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, December. Speaker commitment of different dimensions: conditional connectives and polarity items. Invited talk presented at the Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, July. Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Polarity Sensitivity. Talk presented at the Second Workshop on Language and Logic in China (LaLo2), Beijing Normal University.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, July. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives. Invited talk presented at the Department of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, April. The wenn/falls contrast in German: with experimental evidence. Talk presented at the The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, UC Berkeley, CA.
Liu, Mingya. 2017, September. Deriving the wenn/falls Contrast in German as Scalar Implicature: with experimental evidence. Talk presented at the Annual meeting of XPrag.de 2017, University of Cologne.
Liu, Mingya & König, Peter & Müller, Jutta. 2017, June. Electrophysiological signatures of negative and positive polarity processing in German sentence comprehension. Talk presented at the Workshop on Revisiting Semantic and Pragmatic Theories from a Neurocognitive Perspectives, University of Bochum.

Posters

Barthel, Mathias & Tomasello, Rosario & Liu, Mingya. 2021, July. Brain signatures of processing conditionals: semantic vs. pragmatic bi-conditionality. Poster presented at the 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2021), Torino, Italy.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2020, May. Non-at-issue Meanings of Mandarin Conditional Connectives. Poster presented at the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, City University of Hong Kong.
Schwab, Juliane & Müller, Jutta & Liu, Mingya. 2020, March. Is ‘sonderlich’ losing its NPI status? Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2019, November. Non-at-issue meanings of Mandarin conditional connectives. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin.
Schwab, Juliane & Liu, Mingya. 2019, September. Expectation-based sentence processing in prospective NPI licensing. Poster presented at the 3rd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2019), Cagliari, Italien.
Liu, Mingya & Wang, Yuting. 2019, June. Non-at-issue Meanings of Mandarin Conditional Connectives. Poster presented at the 8th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, XPRAG 2019, Edinburgh.
Liu, Mingya & Xiang, Ming. 2018, September. Anti-Locality Effect Without Verb - Final Dependecies. Poster presented at the 24th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2018), 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 presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2018, Graz, Austria.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, May. Semantic and Pragmatic Modulations of the Conditional Discourse Relation. Poster presented at the Workshop on Implicit and explicit marking of discourse relations: the comparison between causals vs. conditionals, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
Liu, Mingya. 2018, April. Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning. Poster presented at the The 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 54), University of Chicago.