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Guest speakersKeynote SpeakersERLEWINE Michael Yoshitaka
University of Helsinki and National University of Singapore
Interrogative and standard disjunction in Mandarin Chinese
He is an Associate Professor of English Language & Linguistics at the National University of Singapore and currently a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2014. His research focuses on the syntax–semantics interface, with interests in grammatical variation, learning, and change, especially in English and languages of Southeast and East Asia. He has worked extensively on linguistic phenomena such as movement, focus, disjunction, and wh-quantification, and has conducted fieldwork on a wide range of languages, including Mandarin, Vietnamese, Japanese, numerous Austronesian and Tibeto-Burman languages, as well as Mayan languages. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Semantics and sits on the editorial boards of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory and the Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
(For more information, see his website: https://mitcho.com/)
MEELEN Marieke
University of Cambridge
Marieke Meelen’s research interests include information structure, comparative syntax and historical linguistics. She is currently part of two projects: the Emergence of Egophoricity (with Prof Hill at SOAS, University of London) and ‘PaganTibet’ (with Prof Ramble, EPHE-PSL, Paris) as well as the recently-finished AHRC-funded ‘The History of Subject Pronouns (with Prof Willis at Oxford University and Prof Meier in Berlin). As the PI of an ELDP-funded research projects documenting endangered languages in Nepal, she is interested in NLP and corpus creation for low-resource languages, having developed both ASR and HTR models for various Tibeto-Burman varieties.
As part of her British Academy postdoctoral fellowship, she worked on the history of V2 word orders across Indo-European languages and developing a historical treebank of Welsh. Her doctoral thesis combined methods from computational and historical linguistics to reconstruct verb-initial and verb-second word order patterns and information structure in Welsh in their Celtic historical context. She is also a computational linguistic consultant for a project on the annotation of Middle Welsh texts at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg.
Marieke was awarded her PhD at Leiden University in 2016 supervised by Prof Lisa Cheng and Prof Alexander Lubotsky.
(For more information, see her website: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/dr-marieke-meelen)
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