Zheng Xu is Senior Associate Professor (Reader) in Linguistics at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University (XJTLU). He has previously taught at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National University of Singapore, Stony Brook University, Indiana University at Bloomington, and University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He received his Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Stony Brook University in 2007, having obtained a BA in English from Fudan University, Shanghai, in 2000. He has published works in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Linguistics, Morphology, Linguistics, Language and Linguistic Compass, Linguistic Typology, and International Journal of English Studies (a special issue on advances in Optimality Theory) as well as edited volumes such as Deponency and morphological mismatches (Oxford University Press, 2007), Morphological autonomy: Perspectives from Romance inflectional morphology (Oxford University Press, 2011), Cambridge Handbook of Morphology (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Competition in inflection and word-formation (Springer, 2019), and All things morphology: Its independence and its interfaces (John Benjamins, 2021). His works were cited by many leading international scholars and professors at world first-class institutions.

Theoretical linguistics

Morphology

Word formation

Chinese linguistics

LNG101 Sounds of English (English Phonetics and Phonology)

LNG212 Morphology

LNG305 Chinese Linguistics

Second Prize in the Paper Category of the 14th Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award 上海市第十四届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖论文类二等奖, 2018

Selected for the SMC Morningstar Outstanding Young Teacher Award Program (Class A) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University 入选上海交通大学SMC-晨星优秀青年教师奖励计划（A类计划）, 2016

Honorary Title of Outstanding Foreign Language Figure in Shanghai 获“上海市外语杰出人物”荣誉称号, 2015

Third Prize of the 7th Excellent Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences) by the Ministry of Education of China 教育部第七届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（人文社科）三等奖, 2015

Presidential Fellowship, Stony Brook University, 2000-2003