Li Jiang

Li Jiang (Julie) is an Associate Professor and Chinese Section Coordinator in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research explores Chinese syntax and semantics, comparative linguistics, and language acquisition, with a focus on classifiers, nominal arguments, and anaphoric structures in Mandarin and China's minority languages.

Research Areas: Syntax-semantics interface, nominal reference, classifier systems, and cross-linguistic variation in argument formation. Her work provides theoretical insights into language universals through empirical analysis of understudied languages.