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Ming Chew Teo

Ming Chew Teo, Assistant Professor

Ming Chew Teo, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ming Chew Teo, Assistant Professor
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
121 Major Williams
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-5361 | mcteo@vt.edu

Ming Chew Teo is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. 

  • Chinese Linguistics
  • Contact Linguistics
  • Singapore English
  • B.A., National University of Singapore
  • M.A., National University of Singapore
  • Ph.D.,  Stanford University 

Books

Crosslinguistic influence in Singapore English: Linguistic and social aspects. Under contract with Routledge.

Sun, Chaofen and Ming Chew Teo. 2017. “Temporally closed situations for the Chinese perfective LE.” Doing pragmatics interculturally: cognitive, philosophical, and sociopragmatic perspectives, Rachel Giova and Michael Haugh (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.   

Journal Articles

“Cross-linguistic influence between genetically unrelated languages: A synchronic study of ‘already’ in Colloquial Singapore English.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Forthcoming.

“How language use shapes meaning: A case study of Singapore Southern Min loanword ‘balu’.” Journal of Chinese Linguistics43.2: 548-585. 2015.  

“Transferability of semantic functions in contact-induced grammaticalization: The case of Singapore Colloquial English ‘one’.” Studies in Language38.4: 836-863. 2014.

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