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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/)

 (For more information, see her website: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/dr-marieke-meelen)