NUS Syntax/Semantics Lab

The Syntax/Semantics Lab at the National University of Singapore investigates linguistic theory through the study of languages of Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Members

Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (mitcho), PI

Zheng Shen

Henrison Hsieh, postdoc

Anne Nguyen, postdoc

Jianrong (JR) Yu, postdoc

Cheryl Lim, RA

Joey Lim, RA

Meghan Lim, RA

Justin Adhiyatma, RA

Friends and alumni

• Bob Beddor, NUS Philosophy
• Kenyon Branan, postdoc 2018–2021; now at Leibniz ZAS, Berlin
• Tingchun (TC) Chen, postdoc 2018–2019; now at National Tsing Hua University, Nanda
• Nick Huang, NUS Linguistics
• Ethan Jerzak, NUS Philosophy
• Hadas Kotek, collaborator, Apple/MIT
• Ted Levin, postdoc 2017–2018; now at Apple
• JJ Lim, RA 2020; now PhD student at UC San Diego
• Keely New, RA 2019–2021; now PhD student at MIT
• Yosuke Sato, at NUS until 2018; now at Tsuda University
• Wenkai Tay, RA 2019–2020; now PhD student at University College London
• Shiao Wei Tham, NUS Chinese Language
• Coppe van Urk, collaborator

👉🏼 Students

👉🏼 Reading group

Events

• 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)