Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine …

                                   Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
                                    Curriculum Vitae: August 2008


Personal

Email:             mitcho@mitcho.com
Current address:   Palace Mansion #205
                   6-1 Hon-machi 6-chome
                   Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
                   Japan 151-0071
Permanent contact: 2052 E. 100th Place
                   Thornton, CO 80229
                   USA
Citizenship:       United States and Japan (dual)
Website:           http://mitcho.com
Languages:         English (native), Japanese (native), Mandarin Chinese, French
                   Additional coursework in Classical Chinese, Squliq Atayal (Austronesian, Taiwan)


Areas of interest

Broad interests:    formal syntax-semantics, cross-linguistic syntax, foreign language pedagogy
                    Chinese and Japanese syntax-semantics
                    mathematical and computational linguistics
Narrow interests:   syntax-semantics of Mandarin comparatives (phrasal and clausal comparatives, event-
                    based comparison), coteaching methods in language teaching
Areas of further research: automodular representation, grammatical categories, linguistics methods in im-
                     mersion language education, bilingualism, Austronesian syntax-semantics


Education

2007    M.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago.
        Thesis: A New Syntax-Semantics for the Mandarin bi Comparative
        Advisors: Christopher Kennedy, Jason Merchant
2007    B.A. in Linguistics and Mathematics, University of Chicago.
        Dean's list 2003­2007. GPA: 3.8/4.0. Phi Beta Kappa.


Grants, fellowships, and honors

05/2008             Best Paper Award, Linguistic Society of Taiwan National Conference on Linguistics
                    2008 for "The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bi"
08/2007­06/2008     J. William Fulbright Fellowship, English teaching, Taiwan
06/2007             Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
05/2006             Inducted as Associate Member into Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society
06/2006­08/2006     Research Assistantship as part of Scalar Representations in Natural Language Seman-
                    tics, NSF CAREER BCS-0094263. Principal investigator: Christopher Kennedy


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Publications
Conference proceedings

To appear "The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bi." To appear in The Proceedings of the National
        Conference on Linguistics 2008, Linguistic Society of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan.


Manuscripts

2008    "Three C's for a Supportive Educational Environment: Co-teaching, Cohort, and Community,"
        with Dale Albanese, Timothy Collins, Laura Burr, Julie Goshe, Joanne Tseng, and Michelle Louie.
        Submitted for The Proceedings of the 43rd Regional Language Centre International Seminar (RELC 2008),
        Singapore.
2007    A New Syntax-Semantics for the Mandarin bi Comparative. University of Chicago Master's thesis, May
        2007.


Presentations
Conference presentations (Abstract reviewed)

2008    "The Verbal Nature of Mandarin Comparative bi." Presented at the Linguistic Society of Taiwan
        National Conference on Linguistics 2008, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 2­3 2008.
2008    "Three C's for a Supportive Educational Environment: Co-teaching, Cohort, and Community,"
        with Timothy Collins, Joanne Tseng, and Michelle Louie. Presented at the 43rd Regional Language
        Centre International Seminar (RELC 2008), Singapore, April 21­23 2008.


Invited presentations

2007    "A New Syntax-Semantics for the Mandarin bi Comparative: The Talk." University of Chicago Ling
        Lunch, Chicago, June 6 2007.
2007    "The Structure of the Mandarin Comparative." The Third University of Chicago Graduate Student
        Mini-conference, Chicago, March 2007.



Employment
Teaching and education

09/2007­06/2008         Fulbright Fellow. Yilan County Department of Education, Taiwan
                        Cotaught English to students in rural Taiwanese elementary schools.
Summer 2007             Credit Teacher. Concordia Language Villages: Japanese village, Moorhead, Minnesota
                        Taught one year's worth (180 hours) of high school Japanese in an immersion setting.
Summers 2005­6          Assitant Dean. Concordia Language Villages: Japanese village, Moorhead, Minnesota
09/2004­03/2005         VIGRE Course Assistant (TA), Calculus 150's. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
                        Lead problem sessions, held office hours, and graded assignments.


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Summers 2003­4    Two Week Curriculum Facilitator. Concordia Language Villages: Japanese village,
                  Moorhead, Minnesota

09/2002­05/2003   Teaching Assistant, Honors Calculus II. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Min-
                  nesota
                  Lead problem sessions, held office hours, and graded exams.

Summers 2001­2    Junior Counselor. Concordia Language Villages: Japanese village, Moorhead, Min-
                  nesota


Research

06/2006­08/2006   Research Assistant: comparison in Mandarin Chinese under Christopher Kennedy,
                  Chicago, Illinois



Affiliations

2008­2009         Linguistic Society of Taiwan

2007­             Phi Beta Kappa

2006­             Sigma Xi, Associate Member

2006­             Linguistic Society of America

2003­2007         Chicago Linguistic Society

2000­             Saint Paul-Nagasaki Sister City Committee
                  Board of Directors, 2000­2003


Professional service

2007­2008         Educational consultant, Shin Sheng English Village, Yilan County Department of Edu-
                  cation, Yilan, Taiwan

2007              Copy editor, The Journal of English for Specific and Academic Purposes (ESAP Journal)

2006­             Autolexical Grammar resources webpage, in preparation

2004­2007         Volunteer, Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 41­44



Other work experience

08/2008­          Online game programming in a bilingual environment, Gameloft K.K., Tokyo, Japan

09/2006­06/2007   TEX and web programming, The Academic Approach (test prep, tutoring, and online
                  courses), Chicago, IL

04/2004­06/2007   Web programming (AJAX). University of Chicago Humanities Computing and Kanji
                  alive project, Chicago, IL



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