Michael Yoshitaka ERLEWINE (mitcho)

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 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.

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.

September 2023: Tbilisi Symposium 14, presenting “Cross-linguistic variation in ordinary vs interrogative disjunctions”
October 2023: Invited talk at the conference on adverbial clauses, University of Göttingen
October 2023: AFLA 30, presenting on Malayic voice and extraction with Carly Sommerlot and on Tagalog clitic adverb semantics with Henrison Hsieh

Talk, August 2023: “Pronoun-voice interaction in Uma Nyaving Kayan” with Alex Smith and Carly Sommerlot at APLL 15
Paper published, August 2023: “Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction” with Cheryl Lim, in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Talk, August 2023: “Malayic active voice meN-: One prefix or two?” with Carly Sommerlot, at the Turku affixes symposium
Paper published, July 2023: “A syntactic universal in a contact language: The story of Singlish already” in Discourse particles in Asian languages volume 2: Southeast Asia
Talk, July 2023: “On the scope and position of Tagalog clitic adverbs” with Henrison Hsieh at JSLS 24

Talk, June 2023: Plenary talk at the International Symposium on Linguistics, Language Applications and Translation Studies at City University of Hong Kong
Talk, May–June 2023: “Learning the organization of the verbal phase in Philippine-type and Indonesian-type languages” at ISMIL 26 and the Newcastle Verbal Domains workshop (online)

Paper published, May 2023: “Deriving scrambling with word order freezing” with Joey Lim has appeared in Glossa!
Paper accepted, May 2023: “Ingredients of excess: A study of Vietnamese quá” with Anne Nguyen was accepted with revisions in Asian Languages and Linguistics