We had a fantastic virtual AFLA meeting last week! All talk videos are now online: lingconf.com/afla28/program/

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

#TripleA8, the workshop for semantic fieldworkers, is later this week, online, hosted by us at NUS. We have a fantastic program! lingconf.com/triplea8/progr… Please register (for free) soon to receive Zoom access information: lingconf.com/triplea8/regis…

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/

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! rdcu.be/cwfFK

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/32.3220/

Reading about polar question formation in Hebrew and decided to listen to HAIM

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!

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/33.1400/

This project on attitude verbs would cover issues like cross-linguistic variation, syntactic bootstrapping and bridge verbs. Please help to spread the word!

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/

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!

Forthcoming in NLLT: Erlewine & Lim “Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction” doi.org/10.1007/s11049… now typeset — wherein, we argue forcefully for the view that the extraction restriction in a Philippine language must target the closest/highest DP

Haven’t logged into twitter in a while… did I miss anything?