mitcho Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

Linguist, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

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

Hello!

I am an Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Professor) in Linguistics at the National University of Singapore (Department of English, Linguistics, and Theater 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 fieldwork on understudied languages, especially of Southeast Asia. I serve as Associate Editor at Glossa 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
  • Alternatives: focus, 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

  • June 2022: Presenting “Restrictions on the position of exh” with Keng Ji Chow at SALT 32
  • June–July 2022: Presenting “Vietnamese à questions are a certain variant of rising declaratives” with Anne Nguyen at TripleA 9

Recent

Less recent but still pretty good