Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine plays a role.
Articles
2024 Ingredients of excess: A study of Vietnamese quá Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:1, pp. 1–33 | Article
We describe the various uses of the Vietnamese morpheme quá which appears in excessive constructions. Unlike most other degree morphemes in Vietnamese, quá can precede or follow its gradable predicate, and we argue that these two different uses convey excess in very different ways: pre-predicate… read more
2022 Chapter 12. Mandarin exhaustive focus shì and the syntax of discourse congruence: The story of Singlish already Particles in German, English, and Beyond, Gergel, Remus, Ingo Reich and Augustin Speyer (eds.), pp. 323–354 | Chapter
This paper describes three constraints that together govern the distribution of the exhaustive focus marker shì in Mandarin Chinese. First, I argue that shì is a sentential focus particle that is subject to a requirement to adjoin as low as possible within its clause or phase. Second, I show… read more