Singapore 🏝 Summer ☀️ Meeting 👏🏼 2023

July 27, 2023, 10am–5:40pm

Location: NUS AS8 04-01

The Singapore Summer Meeting is an informal meeting of formal linguists currently and formerly based in Singapore to share their work in progress.

Schedule

• 10am: intro
• 10:10–noon:
  • Myunghye Yoo and Zheng Shen: Conjunction as Attractor
  • Zheng Shen and Myunghye Yoo: Processing Closest Agreement with Disjunction Subjects
  • Serene Siow and Nick Huang: Seeing is believing? Polysemy of perception verbs for belief
• noon–1pm: lunch (provided)
• 1–2:45pm:
  • JJ Lim (UCSD): PPCs in two varieties of Mongolian
  • Beth Chan and Zheng Shen: Conditions on wh-the-hell licensing: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English
  • Tham Shiao Wei : Aspectual marking in Mandarin Chinese on a scale of attainment
• 2:45pm: break
• 3pm:
  • Tamisha Tan (NTU): Stative nouns without stative verbs: Overt existential closure in Amarasi in ma-constructions
  • Henrison Hsieh (HK PolyU) and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine: On the scope and position of Tagalog clitic adverbs
• 4:15pm: break
• 4:30pm:
  • Alex Smith: History and syntax of the languages of Borneo
  • Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine: Learning the organization of the verbal phase in Philippine-type and Indonesian-type languages

The meeting is open and free for all. Organized by Zheng and mitcho. Supported by NUS.