Professional Society Memberships

Supervisory Committee Member, 國際語法研究學會[International Association of Grammar Studies (IAGS)]

Lifetime Member, 國際中國語言學學會[International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) ]

Member, 日本語学会[Society for Japanese Linguistics]

Member, 日本語文法学会[Society of Japanese Grammar]

Member, 香港日本語教育研究會[Society of Japanese Language Education Hong Kong]

Academic Services

Associate Editor, 高等日語教育[Advanced Japanese Language Education]

Reviewer, 日語學習與研究[Journal of Japanese Language Study and Research]

Reviewer, 外語導刊[Foreign Languages Bimonthly]

Reviewer, 南開語言學刊[Nankai Linguistics]

Reviewer, Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Reviewer, Asian Languages and Linguistics

Reviewer, International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Selected Publications since 2015

Authored Books

Yang, Wenjiang. forthcoming. 現代日語體範疇研究 [Aspect in Present-Day Japanese]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2023. 現代日語示證範疇研究 [Evidentiality in Present-Day Japanese]. Tianjin: Nankai University Press.

Book Chapters

Yang, Wenjiang. forthcoming. From inferential to reportative: The case of Japanese evidentials. In Chia-Jung Pan, and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Evidentiality and Information Source: The Languages of China and Beyond. Leiden: Brill.

Yang, Wenjiang. forthcoming. 時 [Tense, Chapter 62]. In Guanglu Peng, and Jun Pan (eds.), 日語語言學百題 [One Hundred Topics in Japanese Linguistics]. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Gongshang University Press.

Yang, Wenjiang. forthcoming. 體 [Aspect, Chapter 63]. In Guanglu Peng, and Jun Pan (eds.), 日語語言學百題 [One Hundred Topics in Japanese Linguistics]. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Gongshang University Press.

Yang, Wenjiang. forthcoming. 授受 [Benefactives, Chapter 65]. In Guanglu Peng, and Jun Pan (eds.), 日語語言學百題 [One Hundred Topics in Japanese Linguistics]. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Gongshang University Press.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2025. When “result” is more than result: The genesis and development of Chinese DM jiéguǒ 結果. In Yuko Higashiizumi, and Reijirou Shibasaki (eds.), The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 39–67. Leiden: Brill.

Narrog, Heiko, and Wenjiang Yang. 2024[2018]. Evidentiality in Japanese. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality, 709–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2021. 現代日語的示證系統 [The evidential system in Present-Day Japanese]. In Chia-Jung Pan (ed.), 基本語言學理論研究：示證範疇研究 [Research in Basic Linguistic Theory: Evidentiality], 135–69. Tianjin: Nankai University Press.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2016. 現代日語口語中句尾“ッテ”使用狀況的個案調查 [A case study of sentence-final tte in Present-Day spoken Japanese]. In Zufa Yu, and Fenglin Mao (eds.), 上海海事大學日本學研究文集 [Collection of Papers on Japanology at Shanghai Maritime University], 35–43. Shanghai: Shanghai Pujiang Education Press.

Journal Articles

Yu, Jieying, and Wenjiang Yang. forthcoming. 日語語法化研究綜觀 [A survey of studies on grammaticalization in Japanese]. 日語學習與研究 [Journal of Japanese Language Study and Research].

Yang, Wenjiang. 2024a. 日語語法標注規則芻議 [Morphemic glossing rules for the Japanese language]. 高等日語教育 [Advanced Japanese Language Education] 13: 70–81.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2024b. 日語的詞彙層及相關術語的漢譯問題 [Japanese lexical strata and Chinese translation of its terminologies]. 日語學習與研究 [Journal of Japanese Language Study and Research] (3): 24–34.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2024c. From temporal adverbials to discourse markers: The development of Chinese yuánlái and its Japanese cognate ganrai. Russian Journal of Linguistics 28(4): 771–93.

Bernd, Heine, Wenjiang Yang, and Seongha Rhee. 2024. Discourse-pragmatic markers of (inter)subjective stance in Asian languages. Russian Journal of Linguistics 28(4): 751–70.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2023. 日語示證標記「ミタイ」的誕生與發展 [The rise and development of Japanese evidential mitai]. 高等日語教育 [Advanced Japanese Language Education] 11: 90–102.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2018a. 從人稱敏感現象看日語體標記-te i-的非自知功能 [Person sensitivity and non-egophoric functions of Japanese aspect marker -te i-]. 高等日語教育 [Advanced Japanese Language Education] 1: 81–95.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2018b. 日語語法體的中和現象研究 [Neutralization in Japanese grammatical aspect]. 日語學習與研究 [Journal of Japanese Language Study and Research]. (3): 1–9.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2018c. 日語直接示證的類型學視角 [Direct evidentials in Japanese: A typological perspective]. 日語研究 [Japanese Language Research] 10: 204–18.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2017. 日語完成體的跨語言視角 [Perfect in Japanese from a cross-linguistic perspective]. 東北亞外語研究 [Foreign Language Research in Northeast Asia]. (1): 34–40.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2016. 日語的經歷體 [Experientials in Japanese]. 北研學刊 [Beiyan Journal] 12: 54–64.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2015a. 日語示證標記的去語法化現象 [Degrammaticalization in the emergence of Japanese evidentials]. 解放軍外國語學院學報 [Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages] 38(1): 107–14.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2015b. 日語示證範疇的直指特徵 [The deictic nature of Japanese evidentiality]. 日語學習與研究 [Journal of Japanese Language Study and Research] (4): 41–8.

Conference Proceedings Articles

Yang, Wenjiang. 2023. 同途殊歸：漢日同源詞的話語標記演變之路[Same route but different destinations: The rise of discourse markers from etymologically-related words in Chinese and Japanese]. Proceedings of SCIEA15, 233–41. Suita, Osaka: Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2020. On the diachronic development of Chinese jieguo ‘result’ as a pragmatic marker. Papers from the 20th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 465–70. Tokyo: Japanese Cognitive Linguistic Association.

Translations

Yang, Wenjiang, et al. 2023[2008]. 外研社英漢多功能詞典（第2版）[A Multifunction English-Chinese Dictionary (2nd edn.)]. Beijing: Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press. (Translated from：田中茂範・武田修一・川出才紀（編）2003『Eゲイト英和辞典』岡山：ベネッセコーポレーション.)

Yang, Wenjiang. 2015. 視點與句法：句子生成的拍攝角度及其在句子結構上的反映 (Translated from: “Perspective and syntax：The camera angle of sentence-formation and its reflection on sentence structure” by Susumu Kuno). 日語學習與研究 [Journal of Japanese Language Study and Research] (4): 1–16.

Book Reviews

Yang, Wenjiang. 2019.《語法演化的研究》評介 [Review of Studies in Evolution of Grammar]. 高等日語教育 [Advanced Japanese Language Education] 4: 139–47.

Yang, Wenjiang. 2016. 『因果関係を表す接続表現の日中対照研究』評介 [Review of Contrastive Study of Causal Connectives in Japanese and Chinese]. 漢日語言對比研究論叢 [Chinese-Japanese Contrastive Linguistic Research] 7: 147–53.

Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures since 2022

2025a Redefining evidentiality: Insights from the emergence of reportative evidentials in Japanese. 第三屆鏡海人文圓桌研討會 [The 3rd FAH Macao Humanities Roundtable], University of Macau, Macao, China.

2025b 日語的即行體[Proximatives in Japanese]. 第十六屆漢日對比語言學研討會 [The 16th Symposium on Chinese-Japanese Contrastive Linguistics], Xidian University, Xi’an, China.

2025c日語時間從句中語法體對立的歷史變遷 [Historical changes of grammatical aspect opposition in Japanese temporal clauses], 日語語料庫應用與研究研討會[Symposium on Application and Research of Japanese Corpora], Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

2024a The fourth locative suffix in Modern Chinese. The Symposium on Linguistic Diversity and Universality: An Asian Perspective, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

2024b 日語的完成體與相對時[Perfect and relative tense in Japanese]. 2024年漢日對比語言學研討會[The 2024 Symposium on Chinese-Japanese Contrastive Linguistics], Shanghai Jian Qiao University, Shanghai, China.

2024c 從“言說動詞+類別詞”到語用標記：萊州方言“道個”的歷史演變[From “speech verb + classifier” to pragmatic marker: The development of daoge in Laizhou Chinese], 話語語法論壇（七）[Discourse Grammar VII], Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

2024d 萊州方言的經歷體“來”[Experiential lɛ in Laizhou Chinese]. Invited lecture, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.

2024e 對日語完成體的若干思考[Some reflections on Japanese perfect]. Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Japanese, Peking University, Beijing, China.

2023a 山東萊州方言句尾“來”的多功能現象[Polyfunctionality of sentence-final lɛ in Laizhou Chinese]. 鏡海語言學沙龍第57期[The 57th Seminar of Macao Linguistics Club], University of Macau, Macao, China.

2023b 日語語法化研究的理論與課題[Grammaticalization in Japanese: Theories and topics]. Invited lecture, Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China.

2023c 山東萊州方言的方位詞和方位後綴lɛ [The locative particle and locative suffix lɛ in Laizhou Chinese]. 第二屆鏡海人文圓桌研討會 [The 2nd FAH Macao Humanities Roundtable], University of Macau, Macao, China.

2023d 同途殊歸：漢日同源詞的話語標記演變之路[Same route but different destinations: The rise of discourse markers from etymologically-related words in Chinese and Japanese]. 東亞文化交渉學會第15屆國際學術大會[SCIEA15], Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

2023e From temporal adverbials to discourse structuring markers: The development of Chinese yuanlai and its Japanese cognate ganrai. Panel: Discourse-Pragmatic Markers of Chinese Origin in East Asian Languages, IPC18, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

2023f 日語詞彙層相關術語的漢譯問題芻議[Chinese translation of terminologies on Japanese lexical strata]. 第十四屆漢日對比語言學研討會 [The 14th Symposium on Chinese-Japanese Contrastive Linguistics], Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.

2023g From inferential to reportative: The case of Japanese evidentials. 第二屆示證及相關範疇學術研討會[The 2nd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories], Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, China.

2022a日語動詞的狀態性等級[Scale of stativity in the semantics of Japanese verbs]. Special speech, 第14屆日語教育與日本學國際研討會[The 14th International Conference on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies], Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

2022b evidentiality的漢譯之爭[Controversies over the Chinese translation for evidentiality]. 第三屆鏡海語言學圓桌研討會[The 3rd Macau Roundtable Symposium on Linguistics], University of Macau, Macao, China.