NUS Syn
/Sem LabThe Syntax/Semantics Lab at the National University of Singapore investigates linguistic theory through the study of languages of Singapore and Southeast Asia.
- Anne Nguyen, postdoc
- Joey Lim, RA
- Keng Ji Chow, BA 2022
Alumni
- Kenyon Branan, postdoc 2018–2021; now at Leibniz ZAS, Berlin
- Tingchun (TC) Chen, postdoc 2018–2019; now at National Tsing Hua University, Nanda
- Henrison Hsieh, postdoc 2021–2022; now at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Ted Levin, postdoc 2017–2018; now at Apple
- Cara Leong, collaborator and advisee; now PhD student at NYU
- JJ Lim, RA 2020; now PhD student at UC San Diego
- Keely New, RA 2019–2021; now PhD student at MIT
- Wenkai Tay, RA 2019–2020; now PhD student at University College London
- Jianrong (JR) Yu, postdoc 2021; now at KU Leuven
Friends
- Bob Beddor, NUS Philosophy
- Nick Huang, NUS Linguistics
- Aine Ito, NUS Linguistics
- Ethan Jerzak, NUS Philosophy
- Hadas Kotek, collaborator, Apple/MIT
- Yosuke Sato, at NUS until 2018; now at Tsuda University
- Shiao Wei Tham, NUS Chinese Language
- Coppe van Urk, collaborator
👉🏼 Students
👉🏼 Reading group
Events
- 2022: The second Singapore Summer Meeting
- 2021: The eighth TripleA meeting for semantic fieldworkers
- 2021: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 28 with our friends at McGill
- 2020: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 27
- 2019: The first Singapore Summer Meeting
- 2019: Workshop on Approaches to Wh-Intervention
- 2018: Current Issues in Comparative Syntax
- 2017: Workshop on Quirks of Subject Extraction
- 2017: GLOW in Asia XI
Support
Our work is supported by NUS and the Singapore Ministry of Education through the following grants, among others:
- “The Architecture of Grammar and Discourse” (NUS Presidential Young Professorship research funds)
- “Subjecthood in Southeast Asia: Description and theory” (MOE Tier 2, 2018–2021)
- “Current Issues in Comparative Minimalist Syntax through Asian Perspectives” (MOE Tier 1, 2017–2018)
- “Theory and variation in extraction marking and subject extraction asymmetries” (MOE Tier 1, 2017–2018)