Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine is involved.
2026 Bornean passives in comparative perspective New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 322–347 | Chapter
This paper investigates three types of passives in Lebo’ Vo’, an endangered Kenyah language of northern Borneo (Austronesian), and discusses their implications for linguistic theory and syntactic typology. Passives in Lebo’ Vo’ involve a preverbal analytic marker, with an agent expressed… read more
2025 Toba Batak manang: Notes on its uses and form Studies in Language 49:2, pp. 478–500 | Article
This paper offers a description of the multifunctional morpheme manang in Toba Batak (Austronesian; Sumatra) — as the disjunctor, the interrogative complementizer, and a particle forming wh-based polarity items — contextualized within the broader semantic and typological literatures on such… read more
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