Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
CURRICULUM VITAE: SEPTEMBER 2024

Email:

mitcho@mitcho.com, michaelyoshitaka.erlewine@helsinki.fi, mitcho@nus.edu.sg

Mailing address:

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
PO Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24 A)
University of Helsinki
Helsinki 00014, Finland

Birth:

June 8th, 1985; Japan

Citizenship:

Japan, US

Website:https://mitcho.com

Areas of interest
Broad interests:
Specific interests:

linguistic theory (syntax, semantics) and language variation, understudied languages, languages of (Southeast) Asia
• 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

Languages ofstudy:• Mandarin Chinese• Japanese• Austronesian: Toba Batak, Rejang (Sumatra);Bikol, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog(Philippines); Desa, Kayan, Kenyah (Borneo);
Squliq Atayal (Taiwan)• Vietnamese• Tibeto-Burman: Tibetan, Burmese• English, Singlish• Mayan: Kaqchikel, Chuj (Guatemala)Positions2023–2025

Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki

2022–

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

2015–2022

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Converted to Presidential Young Professor, 20192014–2015

Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University

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Education and other qualifications
August 2024

Docent in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki

September 2014

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation: Movement Out of Focus
Committee: Irene Heim (co-chair), David Pesetsky (co-chair),
Kai von Fintel, Martin Hackl

Summer 2012

Junior Visiting Scholar, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

June 2007

M.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago
Thesis: A New Syntax-Semantics for the Mandarin bǐ Comparative
Advisors: Christopher Kennedy, Jason MerchantJune 2007

B.A. with Honors in Mathematics and Linguistics, University of Chicago
Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Editorships and other board service
2024–

Associate Editor, Journal of Semantics

2020–2024

Associate Editor, Glossa

2022–

Editorial Board, Syntax & Semantics book series (Brill)

2022–

Steering Committee, TripleA workshop on the semantics of understudied African,
Asian, and Austronesian languages

2019–

Editorial Board, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

2019–

Editorial Board, Journal of East Asian Linguistics

2019–2020

Editorial Board, Glossa

2017–2022

Board member and webmaster, GLOW

2017–

Review Board, Snippets

Grants
MOE = Singapore Ministry of Education; AcRF = Academic Research Fund grant program; FASS
= Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS
MAJOR COMPETITIVE GRANTS AS PI
2022–2025

MOE AcRF Tier 2:“History and syntax of the languages of Borneo”(S$672,035)

2019–2025

NUS Presidential Young Professorship research funds:“The architecture of grammar and discourse”(S$850,000)2

2018–2021

MOE AcRF Tier 2:“Subjecthood in Southeast Asia: Description and Theory”(S$570,456)

SMALLER COMPETITIVE GRANTS AS PI
2020–2021

MOE AcRF Tier 1:(S$17,062)“27th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association”

2019–2021

MOE AcRF Tier 1:“Workshop on Approaches to Wh-Intervention”

2017–2019

MOE AcRF Tier 1 (original PI: Yosuke Sato):(S$30,000)“Current Issues in Comparative Minimalist Syntax through Asian Perspectives”

2017–2018

MOE AcRF Tier 1:“Workshop on Quirks of Subject Extraction”

2017–2018

MOE AcRF Tier 1:(S$79,263)“Theory and variation in extraction marking and subject extraction asymmetries”

2012

NSF grant #1209550:(US$5,000 + transportation)“Investigating focus sentences in the endangered Atayal language of Taiwan”(East Asian/Pacific Summer Institute program)(S$18,754)(S$19,428)

OTHER, INTERNAL GRANTS AS PI
2019–2020

NUS FASS seed grant:“Minority language communities in Singapore”(S$10,000)

2017–2018

NUS Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Grant:“Subjecthood in South East Asia”(S$39,949)

2016–2018

NUS FASS start-up grant(S$40,000)

2011

MIT Ken Hale Fund grant for research on Kaqchikel (Mayan)

OTHER GRANTS AS COLLABORATOR
2024–2027

DfG grant: “How to know what gets in the way”
(as collaborator; PI: Kenyon Branan)

2020–2024

NUS FASS interdisciplinary research cluster funding:(S$30,000)“Language and Linguistics” (as co-applicant with Ben Blumson, Leher Singh,
Rebecca Starr, Shiao Wei Tham)

2019–2021

National Research Foundation of Korea(≈ S$260,000)
Global Research Network Program grant(as overseas collaborator; PI: Dongwoo Park, Korea National Open U.):
“Language Universality and Diversity: Focusing on Information Structure of
Languages in the New Southern Region, Korean, and English”
3(≈ S$500,000)

2017

MOE AcRF Tier 1 (as co-PI; PI: Yosuke Sato)“GLOW in Asia XI conference at NUS”

(S$18,220)

Other awards and fellowships
FASS = Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS
2023–2025

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Core Fellowship:“Expressing alternatives in human language”
Internationally competitive two-year research fellowship.

2021

NUS FASS Inspiring Mentor Award2020

NUS FASS Inspiring Mentor Award2018

NUS FASS Faculty Research Award for Promising Researcher

2018

NUS FASS Writing Fellowship:
Faculty-internal competitive fellowship to support one semester of teachingrelease and replacement

2010

Microsoft Research iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize (US$3,500)

2007–2008

U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellowship for English language teachingin Taiwan

2008

Best Paper Award, Linguistic Society of Taiwan National Conference on Linguistics (全國 語言學研討會): “The verbal nature of Mandarin comparative bǐ”(S$5,000)

Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
accepted “Interrogative and standard disjunction in Mandarin Chinese.”
Accepted with revisions with Journal of Semantics.
2024

Erlewine & Anne Nguyen. “Ingredients of excess: A study of Vietnamese quá.”Asian Languages & Linguistics 5:1, 1–33.

2024

Alexander D. Smith, Erlewine, & Carly J. Sommerlot. “Voice and pronominal forms in
Kayan (Uma Nyaving).”
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 17:1, 81–104.

2024

Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Ā-probing for the closest DP.”
Linguistic Inquiry 55:2, 375–401.

2023

Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Anti-pied-piping.”
Language 99:3, 603–653.

2023

Erlewine & Cheryl Lim. “Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction.”
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 41:3, 911–960.
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2023

Erlewine & Joey Lim. “Deriving scrambling with word order freezing.”
Glossa 8, 31 pages.

2023“Can parasitic scope-taking be pronounced?”Snippets 44, 1–3.

2022

“Introduction to the special issue on Austronesian linguistics” (not peer-reviewed)
Journal of East Asian Linguistics 31:4, 439–440.

2022

Erlewine, Joey Lim, & Kenyon Branan. “Revisiting the form of negation in Pangasinan.”
Oceanic Linguistics 61:1, 166–184.

2021

Erlewine & Keely New. “A variably exhaustive and scalar focus particle and pragmatic
focus concord in Burmese.”
Semantics & Pragmatics 14, article 7, 1–54.

2021

Erlewine & Theodore Levin. “Philippine clitic pronouns and the lower phase edge.”
Linguistic Inquiry 52:2, 408–425.

2020“Anti-locality and subject extraction.”
Glossa 5, article 84, 1–38.

2019

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Wh-indeterminates in Chuj (Mayan).”Canadian Journal of Linguistics 64:1, 62–101.

2018“Even doesn’t move but associates into traces: A reply to Nakanishi 2012.”
Natural Language Semantics 26:3–4, 167–191.

2018“Extraction and licensing in Toba Batak.”Language 94:3, 662–697.

2018

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Focus association by movement: Evidence from Tanglewood.”
Linguistic Inquiry 49:3, 441–463.

2018“Clausal comparison without degree abstraction in Mandarin Chinese.”
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36:2, 445–482.

2017“Vietnamese focus particles and derivation by phase.”
Journal of East Asian Linguistics 26:4, 325–349.

2017“Low sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese and the Final-over-Final Constraint.”
Journal of East Asian Linguistics 26:1, 37–75.

2016

Erlewine & Isaac Gould. “Unifying Japanese relative clauses: copy-chains and contextsensitivity.” Glossa 1, article 51, 1–40.

2016

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Even-NPIs in Dharamsala Tibetan.”
Linguistic Analysis 40:3–4 (Special issue on South Asian Languages), 129–165.

2016“Anti-locality and optimality in Kaqchikel Agent Focus.”
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34:2, 429–479.
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Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “A streamlined approach to online linguistic surveys.”
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34:2, 481–495.

2016

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Covert pied-piping in English multiple wh-questions.”
Linguistic Inquiry 47:4, 669–693.

2012“Structurally distant haplology.”
Snippets 26, 7–8.

PAPERS IN EDITED VOLUMES (PAPER PEER REVIEWED)
to appear Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Locality and (minimal) search.”
In Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Evelina Leivada (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist
Program. Cambridge University Press.
2023“A syntactic universal in a contact language: The story of Singlish already.”
In Elin McCready and Hiroki Nomoto (eds.), Discourse Particles in Asian Languages, volume
2: Southeast Asia. Routledge. Pages 91–120.

2022“Mandarin exhaustive focus shì and the syntax of discourse congruence.”
In Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich, Augustin Speyer (eds.), Particles in German, English, andbeyond. John Benjamins. Pages 323–354.

2020“Universal free choice from concessive copular conditionals in Tibetan.”
In Dun Deng, Fenrong Liu, Mingming Liu, Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Monotonicity in Logic
and Language (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer. Pages 13–34.

2018

Erlewine & Theodore Levin. “Clitic pronouns and the lower phase edge.”
In Laura Kalin, Ileana Paul, and Jozina Vander Klok (eds.), Heading in the Right Direction:
Linguistic Treats for Lisa Travis. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. Pages 136–145.

2017

Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk. “Ergativity and Austronesian-type voicesystems.” In Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Travis (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Ergativity. Oxford University Press. Pages 373–396.

2017“Why the null complementizer is special in complementizer-trace effects.”
In Claire Halpert, Hadas Kotek, Coppe van Urk (eds.), A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky.
Cambridge: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Pages 371–380.

2013“Dissociating the syntax and morphological realization of Kaqchikel Agent Focus.”
In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Studies in Kaqchikel Grammar. Cambridge: MIT Working Papers
in Linguistics. Pages 25–50.

MANUSCRIPTS
submitted Erlewine & Teruyuki Mizuno.
submitted Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot. “Voice and extraction in Malayic.”
Resubmitted to Language.
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submitted “On the role of causation in suﬀiciency and excess.”
Submitted for consideration in Edoardo Cavirani and Anastasiia Vyshnevska (eds.), Generative Perspectives on Degrees. De Gruyter.
submitted Resubmitted to Linguistics & Philosophy.
in revision Erlewine & Anne Nguyen. “Pre- and post-predicate degree morphemes in Vietnamese:
Heads vs phrases.”
Submitted to Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
in revision Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese.”
Revising for resubmission to Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
in revision Hadas Kotek & Erlewine.
in revision Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Relative pronoun pied-piping in English non-restrictive relatives.”

BOOK REVIEWS
2016

Invited review of Yoad Winter Elements of Formal Semantics: An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Meaning in Natural Language. Computational Linguistics, 42:4, 837–839.

2016

Invited review of Yosuke Sato Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese.
Oceanic Linguistics 55:1, 298–306.

VOLUMES EDITED
2017

Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI, volumes 1 and 2.
Cambridge: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

2014

Erlewine & Yasutada Sudo (eds.). Proceedings of the MIT Workshop on Comparatives.
Cambridge: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES EDITED
2022

Journal of East Asian Linguistics special issue on Austronesian linguistics
Contributions by Kenyon Branan, Dan Brodkin, Victoria Chen, Tamisha Tan

2018–2020 Glossa special collection on subject extraction
Contributions by Edith Aldridge, Mary Amaechi & Doreen Georgi, Jamie Douglas,
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Susana Fong, Samuel Alhassan Issah & Peter William Smith

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPERS (PAPER PEER REVIEWED)2019

Cara Su-Yi Leong & Erlewine. “Long-distance dependencies in continuation grammar.” In
Ryo Otoguro, Mamoru Komachi, and Tomoko Ohkuma (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd PacificAsia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 33). Pages 114–122.

2009“Ubiquity: Designing a Multilingual Natural Language Interface.”
In Frederic Gey, Noriko Kando, Jussi Karlgren (eds.), Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2009
Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World, SICS Technical Report T2009:09.
Kista, Sweden: Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Pages 45–48.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPERS (PEER REVIEWED BY ABSTRACT)
2023

Henrison Hsieh & Erlewine. “On the scope and position of Tagalog clitic adverbs.” In
Handbook of the 24th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences(JSLS 24). Pages 109–112.

2023

Meghan Lim & Erlewine. “Definiteness and indefiniteness in Burmese.” In Peng Liu, Erin
Sjovall, Xue Sun, Polina Berezovskaya, and Vera Hohaus (eds.), Proceedings of TripleA 7:
Linguistic fieldwork and semantic theory. Pages 34–50.

2022

Keng Ji Chow & Erlewine. “Restrictions on the position of exh.” In John R. Starr, Juhyae
Kim, and Burak Öney (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32. Pages
522–542.

2021

Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Binding reconstruction and two modes of copy-chain interpretation.” In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6. Pages 734–745.

2020

Erlewine & Meghan Lim. “Anti-uniqueness without articles.” In Joseph Rhyne, Kaelyn
Lamp, Nicole Dreier, Chloe Kwon (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory(SALT) 30. Pages 430–449.

2020“Counterexpectation, concession, and free choice in Tibetan.” In Ayana Whitmal, Mariam
Asatryan, Yixiao Song (eds.), Proceedings of the 50th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society(NELS 50). Pages 227–236.

2020

Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk. “The typology of nominal licensing inAustronesian voice languages.” In Ileana Paul (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th meeting of theAustronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 26). Pages 71–87.

2018

Keely New & Erlewine. “The expression of exhaustivity and scalarity in Burmese.” In
Sireemas Maspong, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir, Katherine Blake, and Forrest Davis (eds.),
Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28. Pages 271–288.

2018

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Focus association by movement: Evidence from binding andparasitic gaps.” In Robert Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, andHannah Rohde (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 21. Pages 399–407.

2018

Teruyuki Mizuno & Erlewine. “Constraints on contrast sluicing.” In Kenshi Funakoshi,
Shigeto Kawahara, and Christopher D. Tancredi (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 24. University of Chicago Press. Pages 201–214.
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2018

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Non-interrogative wh-constructions in Chuj.” In Megan Keough,Natalie Weber, Andrei Anghelescu, Sihwei Chen, Erin Guntly, Khia Johnson, Daniel Reisinger,
and Oksana Tkachman (eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Structure and Constituency
in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 21). Pages 101–115.

2017

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Movement and alternatives don’t mix: Evidence from Japanese.”
In Alexandre Cremers, Thom van Gessel, and Floris Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the
Amsterdam Colloquium 2017. Pages 245–254.

2017

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese.” Proceedings of
Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 14.

to appear Erlewine & Theodore Levin. “On the unavailability of argument ellipsis in Kaqchikel.”
In Proceedings of Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi) 4.
2016“Multiple extraction and voice in Toba Batak.” In Hiroki Nomoto, Takuya Miyauchi, Asako
Shiohara (eds.), AFLA 23: The Proceedings of the 23rd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. Pages 81–95.

2016“Focus association into traces and the scope of even.” In Mary Moroney, Carol-Rose Little,
Jacob Collard, and Dan Burgdorf (eds.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, 855–873.

2016

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Tanglewood untangled.” In Mary Moroney, Carol-Rose Little,
Jacob Collard, and Dan Burgdorf (eds.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, 224–243.

2016

水野 輝之、 アーリーワイン マイケル芳貴 “多重 wh 疑問文のペアリスト解釈とスルーシング” 日本言語学会第152回大会予稿集 204–209.

[Teruyuki Mizuno & Erlewine. “Sluicing and the pair-list interpretation of multiple whquestions.” In Proceedings of the 152nd meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, 204–209.]
2016

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Unifying definite and indefinite free relatives: Evidence from
Mayan.” In Christopher Hammerly, Brandon Prickett (eds.), Proceedings of the 46th meetingof the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 46). Pages 241–254.

2016

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Intervention effects in relative pronoun pied-piping: Experimental evidence.” In Nadine Bade, Polina Berezovskaya, and Anthea Schöller (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20 (SuB 20). Pages 448–461.

2016

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “The structure and interpretation of non-restrictive relatives:
Evidence from relative pronoun pied-piping.” In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of
the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 51). Pages 149–163.

2015

Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk. “What makes a voice system? On the relationship between voice marking and case.” In Amber Camp, Yuko Otsuka, Claire Stabileand Nozomi Tanaka (eds.), AFLA 21: The Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the AustronesianFormal Linguistics Association. Pages 51–68.

2015“Minimality and focus-sensitive adverb placement.” In Thuy Bui and Deniz Özyıldız (eds.),
NELS 45: Proceedings of the 45th North East Linguistic Society, Volume 1. Pages 193–202.

to appear “Subject marking on non-subjects in Squliq Atayal.” In Proceedings of the 20th AustronesianFormal Linguistics Association (AFLA 20). Submitted 2014.
to appear “Sentence-final particles at the vP phase edge.” In Proceedings of the 25th North American
Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 25). Submitted 2014.
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2014

“Explaining leftward focus association with even but not only.” In Urtzi Etxeberria, Anamaria Fǎlǎuş, Aritz Irurtzun, and Bryan Leferman (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
18 (SuB 18). Pages 128–145.

2014

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Intervention in focus pied-piping.” In Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan
Poole, and Amanda Rysling (eds.), NELS 43: Proceedings of the 43rd North East LinguisticSociety, Volume 1. Pages 117–130.

2014

Erlewine & Isaac Gould. “Interpreting Japanese Head-Internal Relative Clauses.” In Robert
E. Santana-LaBarge (ed.), Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics(WCCFL 31). Somerville: Cascadilla Press. Pages 160–169.

2014“Anti-Locality and Kaqchikel Agent Focus.” In Robert E. Santana-LaBarge (ed.), Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31). Somerville: Cascadilla Press. Pages 150–159.

2014“Alternative questions through focus alternatives in Mandarin Chinese.” In Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Jackson L. Lee, Mike Pham, and Diane Rak (eds.), Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 48). Pages 221–234.

2012“The Effect of ‘Only’ on Quantifier Scope: the Dake Blocking Effect.” In Koichi Otaki,
Hajime Takeyasu, and Shin-ichi Tanigawa (eds.), Proceedings of the GLOW in Asia Workshop
for Young Scholars 2011. Pages 72–86.

2012“Share to Compare: the Mandarin bǐ Comparative.” In Jaehoon Choi, E. Alan Hogue,
Jeffrey Punske, Deniz Tat, Jessamyn Schertz, and Alex Trueman (eds.), Proceedings of the
29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Pages 54–62.

2010“Sentence-Final Only and the Interpretation of Focus in Mandarin Chinese.” In Lauren Eby
Clemens and Chi-Ming Louis Liu (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the International
Association of Chinese Linguistics and 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics(IACL 18 & NACCL 22), Volume 2. Cambridge: Harvard University. Pages 18–35.

2009

Dale Albanese, Laura Burr, Timothy Collins, Erlewine, Julie Goshe, Michelle Louie, andJoanne Tseng. “Three C’s for a Supportive Educational Environment: Co-teaching, Cohort,and Community.” In Christopher Ward (ed.), Language Teaching in a Multilingual World:
Challenges and Opportunities. RELC Anthology Series #50. Singapore: SEAMEO Regional
Language Centre. Pages 54–64.

2008“The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bǐ.” In The Proceedings of the National Conference on Linguistics 2008, Linguistic Society of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan.

THESES
2014

Movement Out of Focus.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology dissertation, August 2014.

2007

A New Syntax-Semantics for the Mandarin bǐ Comparative.
University of Chicago Master’s thesis, May 2007.

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ARCHIVAL DEPOSITS
2023

Carly J. Sommerlot, Alexander D. Smith & Erlewine. Biatah Bidayuh language elicitation.
Kaipuleohone Digital Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/104690

2023

Alexander D. Smith, Carly J. Sommerlot & Erlewine. Kayan Uma Nyaving language elicitation. Kaipuleohone Digital Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/104786

Presentations
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
forthcoming “On the unity of wh and focus alternatives.” Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung
29, Consorzio Universitario Mediterraneo Orientale, September 17–19, 2024.
2024

Alexander D. Smith & Erlewine. “Emergence of passive voice in Central Borneo.” 57th
Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 57) workshop on passivization,
August 21–24, 2024.

2024

Alexander D. Smith & Erlewine. “Emergence of Passive Voice in Central Borneo.” 33rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 33), National Taiwan
University, June 15–17, 2024.

2024

Erlewine & Alexander D. Smith. “On the syntax of the analytic passive in Kenyah.” FirstInternational Symposium on Bornean Linguistics (ISBL 1), June 5–7, 2024.

2024

Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot. “The Malayic verbal phase and Cyclic Linearization.” 54th
meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 54), MIT, January 26–27, 2024.

2024

Henrison Hsieh & Erlewine. “Determining the scope of Tagalog clitic adverbs.” LinguisticSociety of America 100, New York City, January 4–7, 2024.

2024

Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot. “The Malayic verbal phase and Cyclic Linearization.”
Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America 100, New York City, January 4–7,
2024.

2023

“Cross-linguistic variation in ordinary vs interrogative disjunctions.” 8th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition (BUCLA 8), November 16–18, 2023.

2023

Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot. “The Malayic verbal phase and Cyclic Linearization.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 30, October 20–22, 2023.

2023

Henrison Hsieh & Erlewine. “Interpreting clitic adverb combinations in Tagalog.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 30, Lund University, October 20–22, 2023.

2023“Cross-linguistic variation in ordinary vs interrogative disjunctions.” 14th Tbilisi Symposium of Logic, Language, and Computation (TbiLLC 2023), September 18–22, 2023.

2023

Alexander D. Smith, Carly J. Sommerlot, and Erlewine. “Voice and pronominal forms in
Uma Nyaving Kayan.” 15th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL 15), Palacký University Olomouc, August 23–25, 2023.

2023

Henrison Hsieh & Erlewine. “On the semantics of clitic adverbs and their combinations in
Tagalog.” Philippine Linguistics Congress 15, August 23–25, 2023.
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2023

Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot. “Malayic active voice meN-: One prefix or two?” Aﬀixes
symposium, University of Turku, August 17–18, 2023.

2023

Erlewine & Henrison Hsieh. “On Tagalog na ‘already,’ lang ‘only,’ and na lang ‘instead’.”Workshop on ‘already’ markers, iamitives, and related expressions, July 14, 2023.

2023

Henrison Hsieh & Erlewine. “On the scope and position of Tagalog clitic adverbs.” JapaneseSociety for Language Sciences (JSLS) 24, Chuo University, July 8–9, 2023.

2023“Learning the organization of the verbal phase in Philippine-type and Indonesian-type
languages.” Workshop on verbal domains, Newcastle University, June 26–27, 2023.

2023

Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot. “Malayic active voice meN-: One prefix or two?” Poster at
Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ) 166, Senshu University, June 17–18, 2023.

2023“Learning the organization of the verbal phase in Philippine-type and Indonesian-type
languages.” 26th International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL
26) and 9th International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ 9), University of
Hawaii, May 18–20, 2023.

2023

Alexander D. Smith, Carly J. Sommerlot, and Erlewine. “Voice and pronominal forms in
Uma Nyaving Kayan.” Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) 32, May 16–18, 2023.

2023

Erlewine & Anne Nguyen. “Pre- and post-predicate degree morphemes in Vietnamese:
Heads vs phrases.” Linguistic Society of America 97, January 5–8, 2023.

2022

Anne Nguyen & Erlewine. “Biased polar questions in Vietnamese.” TripleA 9, Universityof Manchester, June 28–July 1, 2022.

2022

Keng Ji Chow & Erlewine. “Restrictions on the position of exh.” Poster presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32, El Colegio de Mexico and Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, June 8–10, 2022.

2021

Joey Lim & Erlewine. “Argument apposition in Pangasinan.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 28, National University of Singapore and McGill University,
May 25–28, 2021.

2021

Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Is there focus-marking in the syntax?” Targeted collaborative
debate at GLOW 44, April 15–17, 2021.

2021

Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Binding reconstruction and the types of traces.” LinguisticSociety of America 95, January 7–10, 2021.

2021

Joey Lim & Erlewine. “Word order and disambiguation in Pangasinan.” Poster presented
at Linguistic Society of America 95, January 7–10, 2021.

2020“Universal free choice from concessive copular conditionals in Tibetan.” Second Tsinghua
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, Tsinghua University, Beijing, December 17–20, 2020.

2020“Universal free choice from concessive conditionals.” Sinn und Bedeutung 25, London,
September 3–5, 2020 [moved online, September 3–9, 2020].

2020

Erlewine & Meghan Lim. “Anti-uniqueness with and without articles.” Poster presented
at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 30, Cornell, August 17–20, 2020.

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Joey Lim & Erlewine. “Word order and disambiguation in Pangasinan.” Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) 22, August 12–14, 2020.

2020

Erlewine & Meghan Lim. “Definiteness and indefiniteness in Burmese.” TripleA 7: Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian languages, Tübingen, July 20–26, 2020.

2020“Counterexpectation, concession, and free choice in Tibetan and beyond.” Linguistic Society of America 94, New Orleans, January 2–5, 2020.

2020

Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Anti-pied-piping.” Poster presented at the Linguistic Societyof America 94, New Orleans, January 2–5, 2020.

2019“Counterexpectation, free choice, and concessives in Tibetan.” Poster presented at the 50th
meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 50), MIT, October 25–27, 2019.

2019

Kenyon Branan & Erlewine. “Anti-pied-piping.” Stress-Free Focus Workshop, Universityof Vienna, October 18–19, 2019.

2019

Cara Su-Yi Leong & Erlewine. “Long-distance dependencies in continuation grammar.”
The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC),
Future University Hakodate, September 13–15, 2019.

2019“Wh-quantification in Alternative Semantics.” GLOW in Asia XII, Dongguk University,
Seoul, August 6–9, 2019.

2019

Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk. “The typology of nominal licensing inAustronesian voice languages.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 26,
University of Western Ontario, May 24–26, 2019.

2019

Anne Nguyen & Erlewine. “Ingredients of excess: A study of Vietnamese quá.” Poster
presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 29, UCLA, May 17–19, 2019.

2019

Anne Nguyen & Erlewine. “Ingredients of excess: A study of Vietnamese quá.” International Workshop on Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective, March 16–17, 2019.

2019“Long-distance relativization in Tibetan.” Linguistic Society of America 93, New York City,
January 3–6, 2019.

2019

Cheryl Lim & Erlewine. “Understanding the Austronesian subject-only extraction restriction: Evidence from Bikol topicalization.” Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America
93, New York City, January 3–6, 2019.

2018

Keely New & Erlewine. “The expression of exhaustivity and scalarity in Burmese.” Poster
presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28, MIT, May 18–20, 2018.

2018

Cheryl Lim & Erlewine. “Agent extraction and topicalization in Bikol.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 25, Academia Sinica, May 10–12, 2018.

2018“A syntactic universal in a contact language: The story of Singlish already.” Linguistic Society of America 92, Salt Lake City, January 4–7, 2018.

2018

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese.” Linguistic Society of America 92, Salt Lake City, January 4–7, 2018.

2018

Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk. “The typology of nominal licensing inAustronesian voice languages.” Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America 92, Salt
Lake City, January 4–7, 2018.
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Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Movement and alternatives don’t mix: Evidence from Japanese.”
Amsterdam Colloquium 2017, Amsterdam, December 20–22, 2017.

2017

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese.” Logic andEngineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 14, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo,
November 13–15, 2017.

2017“The limits of relexification: The story of Singlish already.” The summer conference of theSociety for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, University of Tampere, Finland, June 19–22, 2017.

2017“Quantifying over alternatives with Toba Batak manang.” TripleA 4: Semantics of African,
Asian, and Austronesian languages, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 9–11, 2017.

2017“Extraction and licensing in Toba Batak.” South East Asian Linguistics Society 27 (SEALS27), Padang, May 11–13, 2017.

2017“Quantifying over alternatives with Toba Batak manang.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics
Association (AFLA) 24, University of Washington, April 7–9, 2017.

2017“Extraction and licensing in Toba Batak.” GLOW 40, Leiden, March 14–18, 2017.

2017“C and T in Toba Batak.” Linguistic Society of America 91, January 5–8, 2017.

2017

Erlewine & Theodore Levin. “On the unavailability of argument ellipsis in Kaqchikel.”
Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America 91, January 5–8, 2017.

2016“Triggers of fronting in Toba Batak.” Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Monash
University, December 5–7, 2016.

2016

Erlewine & Theodore Levin. “On the unavailability of argument ellipsis in Kaqchikel.”
Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi) 4, Universidad de Oriente, November
17–18, 2016.

2016

Teruyuki Mizuno & Erlewine. “Contrast sluicing and complementary questions.” Japanese/
Korean Linguistics 24, October 14–16, 2016.

2016

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Untangling Tanglewood using covert focus movement.” Sinn
und Bedeutung 21, University of Edinburgh, September 4–6, 2016.

2016“Encoding QUD congruence in Mandarin Chinese.” Theoretical Linguistics at Keio, August
7–9, 2016.

2016

Teruyuki Mizuno & Erlewine. “Contrast sluicing and complementary questions.” Theoretical Linguistics at Keio, August 7–9, 2016.

2016

水野 輝之、 アーリーワイン マイケル芳貴 “多重 wh 疑問文のペアリスト解釈とスルーシング” 日本言語学会第152回大会.

[Teruyuki Mizuno & Erlewine. “Sluicing and the pair-list interpretation of multiple whquestions,” 152nd meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, June 25–26, 2016.]
2016“Multiple extraction and voice in Toba Batak.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 23, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, June 10–12, 2016.

2016“Focus association into copies and the scope of even.” Poster at Semantics and Linguistic
Theory (SALT) 26, University of Texas at Austin, May 12–15, 2016.

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Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Untangling Tanglewood using covert focus movement.” Poster
at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, University of Texas at Austin, May 12–15,
2016.

2016

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Non-interrogative wh-constructions in Chuj.” 21st Workshop
on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 21), Université deQuébec à Montréal (UQAM), April 2016.

2016

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Unifying definite and indefinite free relatives: Evidence from
Mayan.” Linguistic Society of America 90, Washington D.C., January 2016.

2015

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Unifying definite and indefinite free relatives: Evidence from
Mayan.” 46th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 46), Concordia University, Montréal, October 16–18, 2015.

2015

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Wh-quantification in Dharamsala Tibetan.” 37th International
Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI 37), New Delhi, October 2015.

2015“The semantics of the Mandarin focus marker shì.” 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL9), Stuttgart, September 2015.

2015

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Relative pronoun pied-piping, the structure of which informs
the analysis of relative clauses.” Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Tübingen, September 2015.

2015

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Relative pronoun pied-piping, the structure of which informs
the analysis of relative clauses.” Chicago Linguistic Society 51 (CLS 51), April 23, 2015.

2015“Restructuring and Agent Focus in Kaqchikel.” Society for the Study of the Indigenous
Languages of the Americas (SSILA 2015), Portland, January 2015.

2015

Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk. “Voice morphology as extraction marking.”
Poster at Linguistic Society of America 89, Portland, January 2015.

2015“On the position of focus adverbs.” Poster at Linguistic Society of America 89, Portland,
January 2015.

2014“On the position of focus adverbs.” Poster at North East Linguistic Society 45, MIT, October
31–November 2, 2014.

2014“On the position of focus adverbs.” Ninth Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics(TEAL 9), Nantes, September 25–26, 2014.

2014

Erlewine, Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk. “What makes a voice system? On the relationship between voice marking and case.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association(AFLA) 21, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, May 23–25, 2014.

2014“Exploring the Cross-linguistic Nature of Simple and Complex Words and Expressions in
Human Language Through Event-Related Potentials,” with Miwako Hisagi, Sachiko Kato,
Hadas Kotek, Ayaka Sugawara, Daichi Yasunaga, Dimitrios Pantazis, Masatoshi Koizumi,
and Shigeru Miyagawa. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2014
Annual Meeting, Boston, April 2014.

2014“Association with traces and the copy theory of movement.” Linguistic Society of America
88, Minneapolis, January 2014.

2014

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Morphological blocking in English causatives.” Linguistic Society of America 88, Minneapolis, January 2014.
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“Association with traces and the copy theory of movement.” Sinn und Bedeutung 18 (SuB18), University of the Basque Country, September 11–13, 2013.

2013“Sentence-Final Particles at the vP phase edge.” North American Conference on Chinese
Linguistics 25 (NACCL 25), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, June 21–23, 2013.

2013“Subject marking on non-subjects in Squliq Atayal.” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 20, University of Texas at Arlington, May 17–19, 2013.

2013“The (anti-)locality of movement: the case (but not Case) of Kaqchikel Agent Focus.” West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 31, Arizona State, February 8–10, 2013.

2013

Erlewine & Isaac Gould. “Domain Readings of Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses.”
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 31, Arizona State, February 8–10, 2013.

2013“Locality restrictions on syntactic extraction: the case (but not Case) of Kaqchikel Agent
Focus.” Linguistic Society of America 87, Boston, January 3–6, 2013.

2013

Hadas Kotek & Erlewine. “Intervention effects and covert pied-piping in English multiple
questions.” Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America 87, Boston, January 3–6, 2013.

2013

Erlewine & Isaac Gould. “Domain Readings of Japanese Head-Internal Relative Clauses.”
Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America 87, Boston, January 3–6, 2013.

2012

Erlewine & Hadas Kotek. “Diagnosing Covert Pied-Piping.” North East Linguistic Society
43, CUNY, October 19–21, 2012.

2012“Dissociating the syntax and morphological realization of Mayan Agent Focus.” First American International Morphology Meeting, Amherst, September 22, 2012.

2012“Mandarin alternative questions question focus alternatives.” Chicago Linguistic Society
48, Chicago, April 19–21, 2012.

2012“Association with traces and the copy theory of movement.” GLOW 35 Workshop on Association with Focus, Potsdam, April 1, 2012.

2012“The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus.” Linguistic Evidence 2012, University of Tübingen, February 9–11, 2012.

2011“Mandarin háishi and the Analysis of Alternative Question Disjunction.” 7th conferenceof the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL 7), University of Venice (Ca’Foscari), September 13–15, 2011.

2011“Focus Interpretation and Covert Movement: the Dake Blocking Effect.” GLOW in Asia
Workshop for Young Scholars, Mie University, Japan, September 7–8, 2011.

2011“The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus.” The Second Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English Conference (IsLE 2), Boston
University, June 17–21, 2011.

2011“Share to Compare: the Mandarin bǐ Comparative.” West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics 29 (WCCFL 29), University of Arizona, April 22–24, 2011.

2010“On the Scope and Position of Mandarin Sentence-Final éryǐ.” Rencontres d’Automne deLinguistique Formelle (RALFe 1) [1st Fall Meeting on Formal Linguistics], University ofParis 8, October 14–16, 2010.

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“Two Onlys in Mandarin Chinese.” 18th International Association of Chinese Linguistics
and 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (IACL 18 & NACCL 22),
Harvard University, May 20–22, 2010.

2009“Ubiquity: Designing a Multilingual Natural Language Interface.” SIGIR Workshop on
Information Access In a Multilingual World (SIGIR-CLIR), Northeastern University, Boston,
July 23, 2009.

2008

Dale Albanese, Laura Burr, Josue Cofresi, Timothy Collins, Erlewine, Katherine Hodges,
and Casey Welch. “Increased Language Awareness through Native and Non-native Speakers’ Partnered Teaching.” 9th Association for Language Awareness (ALA 9), Hong Kong,
June 26–28, 2012.

2008“The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bǐ.” The Linguistic Society of Taiwan National
Conference on Linguistics (全國語言學研討會), National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan,
May 2–3, 2008.

2008

Dale Albanese, Laura Burr, Timothy Collins, Erlewine, Julie Goshe, Michelle Louie, andJoanne Tseng. “Three C’s for a Supportive Educational Environment: Co-teaching, Cohort,and Community.” The 43rd Regional Language Centre International Seminar (RELC 2008),
Singapore, April 21–23, 2008.

CONFERENCE PLENARY TALKS
2023

International Symposium on Linguistics, Language Applications and Translation Studies
in the Big Data Era, City University of Hong Kong, June 5–8, 2023
“Anti-pied-piping mismatches between focus syntax and semantics”

2021

Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) 11,
University of Minnesota, March 26–28, 2021
“Universal free choice in Tibetan and beyond”

2020

Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) 22,
Gyeongsang National University, August 12–14, 2020
“Lectures on focus”

2020

TripleA 7: The semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian languages,
University of Tübingen, July 20–26, 2020
“Counterexpectation, concession, and free choice in Tibetan and beyond”

2018

3rd Asian Junior Linguists conference (AJL3),
University of Hong Kong, October 13–14, 2018
“Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction”

INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES
2017“‘Only’ games: Uncovering rules and regularities across languages”
University of Chicago Alumni Club of Singapore, October 24, 2017.
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Language documentation workshop with Mário Pinharanda Nunes
Festa di Papia Kristang (Kristang Language Festival), May 20–21, 2017.

OTHER INVITED TALKS
2024“Kaqchikel Agent Focus and multiple extraction”
Glottothèque: Mayan languages, University of Göttingen, January 2024

2024

“Wh-quantification in Alternative Semantics”
Yale University colloquium, January 19, 2024

2023

“Explaining systematicity in quantification with question words.”
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, November 29, 2023

2023

“Universal free choice from concessive conditionals in Tibetan and beyond.”• SynSem seminar, CNRS & U. Paris 8, December 11, 2023
• International Conference on the Variation of Adverbial Clauses, University of Göttingen, October 5–6, 2023

2023

“Variation in the Austronesian verbal phase”
Notre Dame Seishin University, June 29, 2023

2023

“Anti-pied-piping mismatches between focus syntax and semantics”
Waseda University, June 24, 2023

2023

“Pre‐ and post‐predicate degree morphemes in Vietnamese: Heads vs phrases”
Tokyo Semantics Research Group, Keio University, June 23, 2023

2019–2021 “Patterns of relativization in Austronesian and Tibetan”• University of Potsdam, July 13, 2021
• International Christian University, Tokyo, May 8, 2021
• University of Hong Kong, May 7, 2021
• University of Tokyo, April 26, 2021
• Goethe University, Frankfurt, July 14, 2020
• University of Edinburgh, February 5, 2020
• Workshop on Comparative Syntax in East and Southeast Asia, Sogang University,
December 14–15, 2019
• University of Helsinki, September 27, 20192018–2020 “Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction”• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, February 28, 2020
• Syracuse University, February 25, 2020
• University of Southern California, February 21, 2020
• University of Pennsylvania, February 5, 2019 (under alternate title)• University of Chicago colloquium, November 15, 2018
• IIT Delhi colloquium, September 27, 2018
• Kwansei Gakuin University colloquium, July 14, 2018 (under alternate title)
2019“The typology of nominal licensing in Austronesian voice languages”
University of Potsdam, November 15, 2019
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“Anti-pied-piping” with Kenyon Branan
University of Southern California, October 14, 20192018–2019 “Wh-quantification in Alternative Semantics”• Michigan State University, February 25, 2019
• University of Tübingen (SFB 833 ‘The Construction of Meaning’) colloquium, December 6, 2018
• Tokai Semantics Research Group, July 28, 20182018

“Intervention tracks scope-taking (in Japanese and English)” with Hadas Kotek
Recent Issues in the Syntax of Questions, University of Konstanz, October 8–10, 20182018

“A syntactic universal in a contact language: The story of Singlish already”• Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, March 30, 2018
• Current Issues in Comparative Syntax, National University of Singapore, March 1–2,
2018

2017–2018 “Extraction and licensing in Toba Batak”• University of Hawai‘i, February 1, 2018
• Sophia University, Tokyo, November 16, 2017
• National Tsing Hua University colloquium, May 31, 2017
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, March 10, 20172017

“The anti-locality signature of quirks of subject extraction”
Quirks of Subject Extraction, National University of Singapore, Aug 10–11, 20172017

“Rules of inference and the restrictor view of conditionals,” with Theresa Helke
The Sapporo Semantics Workshop, July 8, 2017.

2015–2017 “Focus adverbs at the vP and higher edges”• University of Pennsylvania, January 31, 2017
(under alternate title: “Competition and variation in focus particle placement”)• Macquarie U. Center of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, December 12, 2016
(under alternate title: “Focus and minimality”)• University of Washington colloquium, November 20, 2015
• Swarthmore College job talk, April 15, 2015
• National University of Singapore job talk, March 31, 2015
• Concordia University colloquium, March 20, 2015
• University of Minnesota colloquium, February 13, 2015
• University of Potsdam, January 23, 2015
• University of Leipzig colloquium, January 21, 20152016

“Mandarin shì and the nature of cleft syntax/semantics”
Hong Kong University of Education, October 17, 2016

2016

“The locus of Mandarin sentence-final particles and the Final-over-Final Constraint”
Workshop on Word Order of Heads 中心語詞序研討會, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
October 14, 2016

2016

“C-T head splitting: Evidence from Toba Batak”• Hong Kong University, October 13, 201619• MIT Ling Lunch, September 8, 2016
2016

“ACD and the scope of even.”
The Third Okinawa Semantics Workshop, July 31, 2016

2016

“Focus association through covert movement” (joint work with Hadas Kotek)• Tokyo Semantics Research Group (意味論研究会), June 17, 2016
• University of Edinburgh colloquium (Linguistics Circle), April 28, 2016

2015–2016 “Subject extraction and anti-locality”• Waseda University syntax seminar, June 8, 2016
• Queen Mary (University of London) job talk, February 18, 2015
• University of Ottawa job talk, February 2, 2015
2015

“Configurations of focus association”
CUNY Graduate Center job talk, April 21, 2015

2015

“Backwards association: data, theory, and implications”
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin, January 20, 2015.

2014“Anti-locality and anti-agreement”
CUNY Graduate Center, March 18, 2014.

2014“Morphological blocking and the architecture of grammar”
Hampshire College job talk, February 20, 2014.

2013“Kaqchikel Agent Focus as anti-locality”
University of Toronto, October 3, 2013.

2012“Kaqchikel Agent Focus: new evidence from multiple extraction constructions”
National Tsing Hua University, July 11, 2012.

2012“カクチケル語における Agent Focus 構造について 〜多重取り出し構造の視点から〜” [“Kaqchikel
Agent Focus: new evidence from multiple extraction constructions”]
Tohoku University, June 20, 2012.

2012“Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses and Maximal Informativeness”
Tokyo Semantics Research Group (意味論研究会), Keio University, June 15, 2012.

2012“The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus”• Harvard Language and Cognition Group, April 10, 2012.
• Ted Gibson Language Lab, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, March 21, 2012.

2010“Independent Dependency in the Mandarin bǐ Comparative”
MIT Workshop on Comparatives, November 13–14, 2010.

INVITED PROFESSIONAL TALKS
2022“Applying for Large Grants: Opportunities and Strategies” workshop, National Universityof Singapore, June 9, 2022.

2021

Linguistic Society of Japan English abstract workshop, December 18, 2021.

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Advising
National University of Singapore
Postdoctoral advising• Alexander D. Smith, 2022–2024• Carly J. Sommerlot, 2022–2024• Anne Nguyen, 2021–2023• Henrison Hsieh, 2021–2022; now at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)• Jianrong (JR) Yu, 2021; now at MDPI
• Kenyon Branan, 2018–2021; now at the University of Göttingen (Germany)• Tingchun Chen, 2018–2019; now at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)• Theodore Levin, 2017–2018; now at Apple
Full-time RAs• Joey Lim, 2020–2022• Meghan Lim, 2020–2022• Cheryl Lim, 2021
• Justin Adhiyatma, 2021
• Jun Jie Lim, 2020; now in UC San Diego PhD program• Wenkai Tay, 2020; now in University College London PhD program• Keely New, 2019–2021; now in MIT PhD program• Darren Mak, 2019
Doctoral advising• Agnes BI, ongoing (MIT; as external member)• Ka Fai YIP, ongoing (Yale; as external member)• Daniel Aremu, ongoing (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt; as external member)• Anne NGUYEN Thi Thuy Nguyen, 2021 (as chair)“Formal analysis of the Vietnamese sentence-final particle cơ”• Evynurul Laily Zen, 2020 (as internal examiner, oral panel member)“Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition by multilingual children in Indonesia”
Now at Universitas Negeri Malang21• Theresa HELKE, 2018 (as internal examiner, oral panel member)“On conditionals” (PhD thesis in Philosophy)• CHANG Qizhong, 2016 (as internal examiner, oral panel member)“Wh-question constructions in Colloquial Singapore English”
Now at National Institute of Education, Singapore
MA advising• Keely NEW Zuo-Qi, 2020
“The semantics of plurality in Burmese”• CHENG Yuanchen, 2020
“Classification of object control verbs in Mandarin Chinese”• Kittirit Teeranate, 2020 (as external examiner, oral panel member)“The acquisition of English control and raising constructions by Thai learners”
MA thesis at Thammasat University, Thailand
BA Honors Thesis advising• CHOW Keng Ji, 2020
“Presuppositions, implicatures, and the scope of exhaustification”• Joey LIM, 2020
“Clitic doubling, the double nominative construction, and word order in Pangasinan”• TAN Yan Er, 2020
“On the semantics of somemore in Colloquial Singapore English”• LIM Meghan Leilani Ai-Lin, 2019“(In)definite marking in Burmese”• Deborah CHIANG, 2019
“Use of wh-words in Khmer Krom”• Cara LEONG Su-Yi, 2019
“Long-distance movement, binding, and scope in a continuation grammar”• Keely NEW Zuo-Qi, 2018
“Predicate-fronting in Burmese”• Lauren KOH, 2018
“An analysis of Colloquial Singapore English where got constructions”• Cheryl LIM Min, 2018
“Topicalisation and extraction in Bikol”• LEN Wanyan, 2017
“Exhaustivity with Singlish then”• JOE Wieky, 2017
“Honorification in Nepali’s Subject-Verb Agreement”

22• Phoebe CHEONG Si En, 2016
“Sentence-final already and only in Singapore English”• Kevin Martens WONG, 2016
“Differential Object Marking in Kristang, an endangered creole in Singapore”• Jeremy LAU Weng, 2016
“The potential and limits of machine translation”• Grace KANG Yixuan, 2016
“Ways of expressing necessity: A study of Singlish must and confirm”
Independent Study (ISM) advising• ONG Li Xian, 2019–20 Sem 2: elicitation work on Bikol• Cara LEONG Su-Yi, 2019–20 Sem 2: elicitation work on Ilocano and Bikol• CHENG Yuanchen, 2018–2019 Sem 1: formal semantics• LIU Dian, 2017–18 Sem 2: focus semantics in Mandarin Chinese• LIN Li, 2017–18 Sem 1: quantification in Mandarin Chinese• Lauren KOH, 2017–18 Sem 1: formal pragmatics• Theresa HELKE, 2016–17 Sem 1: conditionals and modal semantics
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) advising• Cheryl LIM Min, 2017–18 Sem 1: elicitation work on Bikol• Keely NEW Zuo-Qi, 2017–18 Sem 1: elicitation work on Burmese
McGill University
Committee member for PhD candidate evaluation paper• Liz Smeets, 2014–2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)• Advised and collaborated with an undergraduate student to study typological literature on
the realization of focus expressions:– Camille DeJarnett (fall 2013, January 2014)• Advised and collaborated with undergraduate students on the use of hypertext corpora toinvestigate syntactic constituency:– Camille DeJarnett (spring 2012)– Daniel Martelly (spring 2012)– Alyssa Mensch (January 2012)23

– Patrick Hulin (January 2011, spring 2011, summer 2011)– Patrick Hurst (spring 2011)– Anthony Nguyen (summer 2010)

Teaching
National University of Singapore
GET1036 The Logic of Language
A large enrollment general education course designed to expose analytically-minded students to the study of human language through pattern description and algorithmic thinking. The material draws on foundational ideas in Linguistics, as well as Philosophy andComputer Science. Materials available upon request.
2020–2021 Sem 2
2019–2020 Sem 2
2018–2019 Sem 2
2017–2018 Sem 2
EL5101 Grammatical Analysis
Graduate introduction to modern syntactic theory, for students with a wide range of backgrounds. A compulsory course in our MA and PhD programs.
2021–22 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/gram2021/
2020–21 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/gram2020/
2019–20 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/gram2019/2017–18 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/gram2017/
2016–17 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/gram2016/
EL4203 Semantics
Introduction to formal semantics for Honors undergraduates and graduate students.
2021–22 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/sem2021/
2020–21 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/sem2020/
2019–20 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/sem2019/2017–18 Sem 1: https://mitcho.com/nus/sem2017/
2016–17 Sem 2: https://mitcho.com/nus/sem2017spring/
2015–16 Sem 2: https://mitcho.com/nus/sem2016/
EL3212/4212 Field Methods in Linguistics
Field methods course for upper undergraduates and some graduate students.
2018–19 Sem 2 (Burmese): https://mitcho.com/nus/field2019/2016–17 Sem 2 (Kristang): https://mitcho.com/nus/field2017/
2015–16 Sem 2 (Nepali): https://mitcho.com/nus/field2016/24

Tutorial instructor for EL1101 The Nature of Language (Rebecca Starr, instructor)
2015–16 Sem 1: led tutorials, held oﬀice hours, and graded group projects.

Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains (LISSIM)
Invited instructor, 2018 (LISSIM 11): The syntax and semantics of focus particles

McGill University
Fall 2014

Instructor, LING 721 Advanced Seminar 1 “Questions, focus, and friends”
https://mitcho.com/mcgill/focus-wh/
Research seminar for graduate students, co-taught with Hadas Kotek.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spring 2013

Instructor, “Turkshop,” MIT Experimental Syntax/Semantics Lab
With Hadas Kotek, organized and co-taught a seven-week hands-on workshop
on designing and conducting linguistic experiments on Amazon’s Mechanical
Turk platform.

Spring 2013

Instructor, MIT Educational Studies Program
With Iain Giblin and Hadas Kotek, developed and co-taught a seven-week Introduction to Linguistics course to advanced high school students.

Fall 2011

Teaching Assistant, 24.902 Undergraduate Syntax (Sabine Iatridou, instructor)
Led recitations, held oﬀice hours, lectured, and graded assignments, papers,
and exams.

Spring 2011

Teaching Assistant, 24.900 Intro to Linguistics (David Pesetsky, instructor)
Led recitations, held oﬀice hours, and graded assignments, papers, and exams.

Fulbright Taiwan: elementary EFL
2007–2008

Fulbright Fellow. Yilan County Department of Education, Taiwan
Taught English to students in rural Taiwanese elementary schools.

Concordia Language Villages: Japanese language immersion education
Summer 2007

Credit Program Teacher, Intermediate Japanese
Taught an accredited one-year-equivalent curriculum of high school Japanese
in an immersion setting.

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Summers 2005–6

Assistant DeanManaged both academic and business operations of a Japanese language immersion summer camp serving over 200 children per summer. Led training andmanagement of bilingual staff.

Summers 2003–4

Two Week Program Curriculum Facilitator
Lead and supported program staff in the counseling and teaching of 100 students in an immersive language camp setting.

University of Chicago: mathematics
2004–2005

Teaching Assistant, Calculus I, II (151, 152) (Sameer D’Costa, instructor)
Led problem sessions, held oﬀice hours, and graded assignments.

University of Minnesota: mathematics
2002–2003

Teaching Assistant, Honors Calculus II (Thomas Schwartzbauer, instructor)
Led problem sessions, held oﬀice hours, and graded exams.

Membership
Linguistic Society of America, 2006–

Professional service
See also “Editorships and other board service” above.
Service to the discipline• LSA Nominating Committee, 2022–2024 (co-chair, 2024)• LSA Ombuds Committee, 2021–• Semantics and Linguistic Theory equity and diversity committee (SALTED), 2020–2021– Co-organizer, Workshop on inclusive teaching in semantics at SALT 31, May 6, 2021
– Co-author, Resources for Equity and Inclusion in Linguistics (REIL), an initiative of the
LSA Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics and SALTED, 2020
Service at the National University of Singapore• Co-organizer, Syntax/Semantics Reading Group, 2017–• Co-organizer, Language and Linguistics interdisciplinary research cluster, 2020–2024• Department Ethics Review Committee (department-internal IRB review body), 2020–2021• Linguistics hiring committee, 2018–2019• Peer reviewer of teaching: 2019, 2021
• Pre-tenure review (Mid-Term Advisory Report; MTAR) committee service: 2024 (chair)
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Organizing• Workshop on Mismatches in Information Structure at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea (SLE 57), Helsinki (2024)
Co-organized with Silvio Cruschina• 27th International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics and the first International Symposium on Bornean Linguistics (ISMIL 27 + ISBL 1) at NUS (2024)
Co-organized with Alexander D. Smith and Carly J. Sommerlot• The third Singapore Summer Meeting at NUS (2023)
Co-organized with Zheng Shen
• The second Singapore Summer Meeting at NUS (2022)
Co-organized with Zheng Shen
• TripleA 8 workshop on the semantics of understudied African, Asian, and Austronesian languages at NUS (2021)
Co-organized with Henrison Hsieh, Meghan Lim, Zheng Shen
• GLOW 44 (2021)
Co-organized with the GLOW Board• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 28
Co-organized by McGill & NUS (2021)• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 27 at NUS (2020)
Co-organized with Kenyon Branan, Henrison Hsieh, Keely New, Zheng Shen
• The first Singapore Summer Meeting at NUS (2019)• Approaches to Wh-Intervention at NUS (2019)
Co-organized with Kenyon Branan• Current Issues in Comparative Syntax at NUS (2018)
Co-organized with Yosuke Sato
• Quirks of Subject Extraction at NUS (2017)• GLOW in Asia XI at NUS (2017)
Co-organized with Yosuke Sato
• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 22 at McGill (2015)
Co-organized with Lauren Eby Clemens and Lisa Travis• Japanese/Korean Linguistics (J/K) 23 at MIT (2013)
Organizing committee member• MIT Workshop on Comparatives (2010)
Co-organized with Yasutada Sudo
Grant proposal reviewing• European Research Council (ERC): 2023
• National Science Foundation (NSF): 2021, 2023
• Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP): 201927

External examiner of doctoral theses• Australian National University: James Gray (2023)
External evaluation of candidates for hiring and/or promotion• Oxford University: 2022
• Academia Sinica: 2018
Journal paper reviewing• Linguistic Inquiry: 2015×2, 2016×5, 2017× 4, 2018× 4, 2019×3, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Natural Language & Linguistic Theory: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018×2, 2019, 2020×3, 2021, 2023
• Glossa: 2016×2, 2017×4, 2021×3, 2023, 2024
• Journal of East Asian Linguistics: 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020×2, 2022, 2023
• Lingua: 2012, 2013, 2014×3, 2015×2• Natural Language Semantics: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
• Linguistics & Philosophy: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021
• Semantics & Pragmatics: 2020, 2021×2• Journal of Semantics: 2014, 2023
• Diachronica: 2023
• Frontiers in Psychology: 2020
• Glossa Psycholinguistics: 2022
• Linguistic Variation: 2017
• Syntax: 2015, 2023
• Snippets: 2017×2, 2018×4, 2019×4, 2020×2, 2021, 2022, 2024×2• Linguistics: 2016
• Oceanic Linguistics: 2015
• Semantic Fieldwork Methods: 2020
• Studia Linguistica: 2017, 2019
• Language & Linguistics: 2016, 2019
• Studies in Chinese Linguistics: 2015, 2017×2, 2020
• Canadian Journal of Linguistics: 2015, 2017×2• Studies in Language: 2019
Book chapter reviewing• Language Science Press: 2023×2, 2024
• Cambridge UP: 2021
• Oxford UP: 2015, 201628

• John Benjamins: 2019, 2020
• Wiley-Blackwell: 2018
• De Gruyter: 2016
• MIT Working Papers in Linguistics: 2010, 2012, 2016×2
Book proposal/manuscript reviewing• Routledge: 2016, 2017
Abstract reviewing for conferences• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,
2023, 2024
• North East Linguistic Society (NELS): 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024
• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL): 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW): 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
• Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021
• Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL): 2017
• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING): 2018
• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022(with TripleA), 2023, 2024
• Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi): 2012
• Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL): 2012, 2017, 2021
• Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL): 2016
• TripleA workshop on the semantics of understudied African, Asian, and Austronesian languages: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 (with AFLA), 2023
• Societas Linguistica Europaea: 2024
• Japanese Society for Language Sciences: 2023
• Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA): 2023
• Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL): 2021
• European Association for Chinese Linguistics (EACL): 2018, 2020
• New Ways of Analyzing Variation / Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP): 2021
• Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL): 2018, 2022
• Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG): 2018, 2020, 2021
• Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG): 2017, 2019
• Journées de linguistique d’Asie orientale (JLAO): 2023
• ESSLLI Student Session: 2013
• Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE): 201529

Abstract reviewing for thematic workshops• Workshop on After/Before Clauses, Nantes, 2024
• MECORE workshop on the semantics of clause-embedding predicates, Konstanz, 2024
• Exhaustivity in Questions and Answers, Tübingen, 2019
• The Parameters Workshop in honour of Lisa Travis, McGill, 2019• Not-at-issue Meaning and Information Structure, University of Oslo, 2017
• Evaluative meanings: Theoretical and computational perspectives, DGfS 2017
• Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems, EMNLP 2017
• Exploring the Interfaces (ETI) 3: Prosody and Constituent Structure, McGill, 2014
Problem writing• North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO), 2015

Community leadership
TrusteeAwesome Foundation• Singapore chapter, 2016–2021 (Dean, 2017–2021)• Boston chapter, 2011–2014“Micro-philanthrophy” organization distributing $1,000 grants with no strings
attached, to artists, educators, inventors, and communities.

Representative

MIT Graduate Student Council, 2011–2013
Elected representative for the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy.

Co-founder

Boston WordCamp 2010 & 2011
Technical community conference.

Board member

Saint Paul-Nagasaki Sister City Committee, 2000–2003

Languages• English (native), Japanese (native), Mandarin Chinese;• Coursework in French, Hebrew, Finnish, Tibetan, Classical Chinese;• Elicitation and analysis experience in others (see languages of study at top)30

Technology experience
MAJOR SOFTWARE PROJECTS
2009–2013

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)
The most popular content recommendation plugin for WordPress, with overhalf a million active installations. Independently operated for five years andthen sold in 2013.

2009–2010

Firefox Tab Groups, Mozilla
A new user interface feature shipped in Firefox 4.

2009

Ubiquity, Mozilla Labs
An experimental multilingual natural language interface for the browser. Architected and implemented a language-agnostic, localizable parser for simple imperative sentence fragments.

SOFTWARE FOR EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS
2013

turktools with Hadas Kotek
Tools for preparing linguistic surveys for Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT).

2013

turkserver
PHP application to serve AMT-style surveys on your own server.

ADVISING
2014–2017

Technical advisor, Avrio AI
Talent acquisition startup. NLP advising.

2013–2018

Technical advisor, Slang
Computer-assisted language learning startup.

2011–2012

Technical advisor, BlogGlue
Content recommendation and relevance startup.

2011

Consultant, Vlingo (since acquired by Nuance Communications, now Microsoft)
Mobile speech recognition and natural language interface startup. Consulted
on Japanese NLP issues.

OTHER EMPLOYERS AND CLIENTS (WEB APPLICATION, SERVER, AND TEX PROGRAMMING):
Automattic (WordPress.com), Gameloft, MIT, the University of Chicago, Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation, Eleven Learning, The Academic Approach31