About me
When I procrastinate, I enjoy brewing coffee, cooking, playing tennis, and watching soccer. When I want to relax, I like playing board games and also just watching TV shows or youtube videos. I have some very niche interests in theater shows and civil aviation.
I have some amateur academic interests outside of linguistics. As a person who’s lived in Shanghai, Chicago, London, and Toronto (a combined population of 40 million!), I am interested in urban studies, particularly the definition of a city as a certain kind of interpersonal relationship. As a person who’s working on a scientific study of language, I am interested in the philosophy and history of science and technologies.
Blog
Research Interest Statement Archive - October 18, 2026
The description of my research interests on my homepage often changes, sometimes drastically. Instead of deleting outdated ones, I’m keeping them here as a record of my academic trajectory.
Jiayuan Yue, Author of "Syntactic Structures" - January 1, 2026
A parody of Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
Linguistics as a Vocation - April 10, 2025
A discussion of Max Weber’s “Science as a Vocation”, and a speculation of the future of linguistics as a Weberian science.
Homepage Art Archive - July 18, 2024
I pick a piece of artwork that I’ve recently seen and liked to display on my homepage (given that it is available under CC license or public domain and roughly fits with the color scheme of this website). Here is an archive of previous displayed artworks.