Assoc Prof, Nat Univ Singapore; Linguistics (syn/sem), Austronesian, Tibeto-Burman, Mandarin, etc. (inactive; left twitter since before it was cool)
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14 Nov 2022
Forthcoming in NLLT: Erlewine & Lim “Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction” doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-0… now typeset — wherein, we argue forcefully for the view that the extraction restriction in a Philippine language must target the closest/highest DP
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14 Aug 2022
Now that I’m moving SO soon, I should probably announce - I’ve accepted a postdoc fellowship at the National University of Singapore and will be moving to Singapore at the end of this month! Really so grateful for this opportunity and can’t wait to start!
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21 Apr 2022
Very happy to announce that our department at NUS (formerly the Dept of English Language and Literature) is now the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies! fass.nus.edu.sg/ell/
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20 Apr 2022
This project on attitude verbs would cover issues like cross-linguistic variation, syntactic bootstrapping and bridge verbs. Please help to spread the word!
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20 Apr 2022
Excited to announce a postdoc position for a recently-funded project of mine at the National University of Singapore: application deadline 19 May. linguistlist.org/issues/33.1…
19 Apr 2022
Jobs: Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore: The Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellow position. The position is for… dlvr.it/SNsyg0
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12 Jan 2022
New paper with Anne Nguyen: We investigate the uses of the Vietnamese excessive morpheme quá (cf English 'too'), which we argue can express the meaning of "excess" in two distinct ways that can be teased apart lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/006395 Comments welcome!
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24 Dec 2021
Reading about polar question formation in Hebrew and decided to listen to HAIM
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17 Nov 2021
Kenyon Branan and I are delighted that our paper, "Ā-probing for the closest DP," has been accepted for publication with Linguistic Inquiry!
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005211
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17 Nov 2021
The paper argues for the view that some Ā-movement processes involve probes that are specifically restricted to targeting the closest DP, with case studies from Turkish, Rejang (Austronesian), and more.
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13 Oct 2021
Happy to announce a postdoc position in experimental syntax/psycholinguistics to work on closest (conjunct) agreement and working memory in Singapore! Starting in 2022 and application deadline is Nov. 25th, 2021. Please spread the word! linguistlist.org/issues/32.3…
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7 Sep 2021
Together with the experimental syntax work of @zheng_shen, as well as work on language by our colleagues in Psychology, there’s a really exciting future for @NUSingapore as a leader at the intersection of psycholinguistics and linguistic theory!!
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28 Aug 2021
My paper with Jianrong Yu, "Agentless presuppositions and the semantics of verbal roots," has just been published in NLLT! If you're interested in reading the paper, you should have full access to it via this link!
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30 Aug 2021
Announcing our fall 2021 collection: mitcho.com/lab/ Welcome to our lab incoming postdocs Jianrong Yu and Anne Nguyen, and new/returning RA Cheryl Lim!
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30 Aug 2021
We're tremendously excited for, and already greatly miss, Kenyon Branan who's moved to Berlin for a new postdoc at ZAS, and Keely New and Cara Leong who are starting PhD programs at MIT and NYU respectively!
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26 Jun 2021
Here's a thread about #ichbinHanna for those who'd like to know more about the situation for academics in Germany, and the massive casualization problem Germany has. 1/
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21 Jun 2021
#TripleA8, the workshop for semantic fieldworkers, is later this week, online, hosted by us at NUS. We have a fantastic program! lingconf.com/triplea8/progra… Please register (for free) soon to receive Zoom access information: lingconf.com/triplea8/regist…
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14 Jun 2021
My paper with Keely New on the Burmese scalar particle hmá has appeared in the Early Access section of Semantics & Pragmatics!! dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.14.7
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1 Jun 2021
We had a fantastic virtual AFLA meeting last week! All talk videos are now online: lingconf.com/afla28/program/
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