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

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Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (mitcho), PI

Zheng Shen

Henrison Hsieh, postdoc

Anne Nguyen, postdoc

Joey Lim, RA

Meghan Lim, 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
Aine Ito, NUS Linguistics
Ethan Jerzak, NUS Philosophy
Hadas Kotek, collaborator, Apple/MIT
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
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
Jianrong (JR) Yu, postdoc 2021; now at KU Leuven

👉🏼 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)