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mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)

Curriculum Vitae
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Areas of Interest

Broad interests:
formal syntax-semantics, cross-linguistic syntax, foreign language pedagogy
Chinese and Japanese syntax-semantics
mathematical and computational linguistics
Narrow interests:
syntax-semantics of Mandarin comparatives (phrasal and clausal comparatives, event-based comparison), coteaching methods in language teaching
Areas of further research:
automodular representation, grammatical categories, linguistics methods in immersion language education, bilingualism

Education

Recent

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Papers

"The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bi" (preprint). To appear in The Proceedings of the National Conference on Linguistics 2008, Linguistic Society of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008.
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A New Syntax-Semantics for the Mandarin bi Comparative. University of Chicago Master's thesis, May 2007.
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Presentations (handouts, slides)

"Deriving the Internal Argument Prohibition through a Verbal Mandarin Comparative bi." (Handout) Linguistic Society of Taiwan National Conference on Linguistics 2008, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan. May 2008.
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"Three C's for a Supportive Educational Environment: Co-teaching, Cohort, and Community," (PowerPoint) with Timothy Collins, Joanne Tseng, Michelle Louie. 43rd Regional Language Centre International Seminar (RELC 2008), Singapore. April 2008.
(coming soon)
"A New Syntax-Semantics for the Mandarin bi Comparative: The Talk," (Handout) University of Chicago Ling Lunch. June 2007.
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"The Structure of Mandarin Comparatives." (Handout) The Third University of Chicago Graduate Student Mini-conference. March 2007.
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Teaching

Please visit my teaching page for my teaching experience.

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