Mingyang Bian  / 边名扬

PhD Student in Linguistics · University of Pennsylvania

Teaching

  • Fall 2026 · Teaching Assistant, LING 0001: Introduction to Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania (instructor: Mark Liberman).
  • Fall 2025 · Teaching Assistant, LING 0700: Data Science for Studying Language and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania (instructor: Kathryn Schuler).
  • Fall 2024 · Teaching Assistant, LING 0001: Introduction to Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania (instructor: Aletheia Cui).

Research Assistantships

  • Spring 2025 · Research Assistant to Paloma Jeretič on light verb modality, University of Pennsylvania.
  • 2022 · Research Assistant, MECORE: a cross-linguistic investigation of meaning-driven combinatorial restrictions in clausal embedding (PIs: Wataru Uegaki & Maribel Romero), University of Edinburgh.

Academic Service

  • 2026 · Session Chair (Pragmatics), the 50th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 50).
  • 2025 · Content Chair, the 49th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 49).
  • 2024 · Copy-editor, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) 30.2 and 31.1.