Niina Ning Zhang (born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, PR China) is a theoretical linguist specializing in Mandarin Chinese syntax and semantics.

[5] In 1997-2003, she was a researcher in Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS).

Now she is a professor of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University.

[7] In her book Coordination in Syntax (2010 Cambridge University Press), she argues for four radical claims: (1) conjuncts are syntactically asymmetrical; (2) there is no independent syntactic category for coordinators; (3) Ross's (1967) Coordinate Structure Constraint is not a construction-specific syntactic constraint; (4) Across-The-Board Movement does not exist.

In her book Coordinate Structures (2023 Cambridge University Press), she further claims that the syntax of coordination and modification, the two types of non-argument relation, can be unified: they both have a categoryless functional element.