mitcho Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

Linguist, University of Helsinki and National University of Singapore

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Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine mitcho Singapore Associate Professor National University of Singapore.

Hello!

I am an Associate Professor (Presidential Young Professor) in Linguistics at the National University of Singapore and currently a Core Fellow at the University of Helsinki’s Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. I received my Ph.D. from MIT Linguistics in 2014. My lab investigates the structure of sentences (syntax) and how these structures map to meaning (semantics). Much of our work is based on the study of historically understudied languages, especially of Southeast Asia. I serve as Associate Editor of the Journal of Semantics and on the Editorial Boards of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory and Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

Areas of interest

  • Movement: (anti-)locality, (anti-)pied-piping, extraction restrictions, interactions with case and agreement, the interpretation of movement chains
  • Focus and alternatives: focus particles, questions, wh-quantification, disjunction, discourse organization (QUDs), implicature calculation

My work has investigated:

See the Projects page for descriptions of projects and downloadable papers.

Upcoming

  • January 2025: LSA Annual Meeting in Philly, speaking on the “Shaping the Future: Leadership Opportunities for Linguists at the LSA” panel

Recent

Less recent but still pretty good