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mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)

Curriculum Vitae
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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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Recent

Areas of Interest

Broad interests:
formal syntax-semantics, cross-linguistic syntax, foreign language pedagogy
Chinese and Japanese syntax-semantics
mathematical and computational linguistics, natural language and web technology
Narrow interests:
syntax-semantics of Mandarin comparatives, syncategorematic items in Mandarin Chinese, natural language user interfaces
Areas of further research:
models of syntactic representation, semantics of less-studied languages, linguistic structures on the Internet, the multilingual web

Education

Software

Downloads

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)

"Two Onlys in Mandarin Chinese." Southern New England Workshop in Semantics, Harvard University, February 2010. 234 mb - pdf
"The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bi." (Handout) Linguistic Society of Taiwan National Conference on Linguistics 2008, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan. May 2008.
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"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

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