Full Professor at Department of English Language & Literature,
Chung-Ang University
Doctoral dissertation: The EPP and Nominal/Predicational PPs in English and Korean
(Advisor: John Bowers)
Master's thesis: The comparative syntax of English and Korean: V-raising and movement to SpecvP
(Advisor: John Bowers)
Master's thesis: Secondary predication constructions in Korean: copular aspects of-lo 'as'
(Advisor: Myung-yoon Kang)
- March 2022 ~ present
Full Professor; Department of English Language & Literature, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
- February 2021 ~ January 2022
Department Chair; Department of English Language & Literature, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
- March 2014 ~ February 2022
Associate Professor; Department of English Language & Literature, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
- February 2014 ~ February 2015
Visiting Scholar; Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- March 2012 ~ February 2014
Associate Professor; Department of English, Chung-Ang University, Anseong, Gyeonggi-do
- March 2008 ~ February 2011
Assistant Professor; Department of English, Chung-Ang University, Anseong, Gyeonggi-do
- September 2005 ~ August 2007
Full-time Lecturer; Division of English, Kyungnam University, Changwon, Gyeongnam
- September 2004 ~ August 2005
Part-time lecturer; Korea University, Sejong University
- 2024
“A morphosyntactic haplology of -i in the Korean vocatives,”
The Linguistic Review 41:447–476
- 2023
“A note on *<φ,φ> constraint in Korean,” Studies in Modern Grammar 120:67–78
- 2023 Poster
“*<φ, φ> on Korean vocatives,”
The 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
- 2023 Presentation
“The *<φ, φ> haplology constraint on Korean vocatives,” Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes (CHAMP), January 20–21, University College London
- 2022
“Vocatives in Korean: Retrospect and prospect,” Inmwunhakjeonkwu 51:139–167
- 2022
“A realizational approach to light verb ellipsis in Korean: Non-constituent ellipsis as zero Vocabulary Insertion,”
Journal of Cognitive Science 23:95–122
- 2021
“Vocative a/ya in Korean: A Case marker, a postposition, or a delimiter?,” Studies in Modern Grammar 112:157–179
- 2021
“A note on Korean vocatives at the syntax-pragmatics interface,” Korean Linguistics 90:49–71
- 2021
“The unembeddability of imperatives in Korean: Two different types of imperative morphology,”
Open Linguistics 7:35–41
- 2020
“Prolegomenon to -yo attachment in Korean at the syntax-pragmatics-prosody interface,” Language and Information Society 41:211–232
- 2020
“Further evidence against the pro analysis of Argument Ellipsis in Korean,” Studies in Generative Grammar 30:433–446
- 2020
“Light verb constructions in Korean,”
Language and Linguistics 21:351–374
- 2019
“Two types of Sino-Korean verb formation,” Studies in Linguistics 52:35–49
- 2018 Presentation
“Two types of Sino-Korean verb formation: How do verbs determine their adicity?,”
The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
- 2018
“A note on the constituency of transitive into -ing constructions in English,” Studies in Generative Grammar 28:731–739
- 2018
“Categorization in Distributed Morphology: A split analysis of verbalization,”
Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 18:173–193
- 2017
“-Shikhita causatives with no addition of argument in Korean: A defective voice analysis,” Korean Journal of Linguistics 42:885–902
- 2017 Presentation
“A configurational approach to verbal heads and the light verb ha- ellipsis in Korean,”
The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
- 2016
“A prosodic account of -yo attachment in Korean (co-author Yoshi Dobashi),”
Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25:213–245
- 2016
“The unembeddable allocutive marker -yo in Korean and the syntax-pragmatics interface,” Studies in Generative Grammar 26:395–406
- 2015 Presentation
“A prosodic approach to sentence-medial attachment of discourse particles in Korean and Japanese (in collaboration with Yoshi Dobashi),”
151st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan
- 2015
“A derivational approach to prosodic -yo attachment in Korean (co-author Yoshi Dobashi),”
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 76:35–46
- 2015
“The diachronic change of -n and -l in Korean and theory of DP/CP symmetry,” Studies in Generative Grammar 25:549–559
- 2015
“A note on the structures of small clauses: symmetrical or asymmetrical?,” Korean Journal of Linguistics 40:237–248
- 2014
“Phonetic characteristics of sentence-medial vs. sentence-final -yo-particle in Korean,” Language Information 18:27–50
- 2013 Presentation
“Recursive i-phrasing and -yo-particle in Korean: A derivational approach (In collaboration with Yoshi Dobashi),”
9th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics
- 2013
“Bi-clausal evidence for right dislocation in Korean,” Studies in Generative Grammar 23:25–39
- 2012
“Fragment answers containing -yo in Korean: New evidence for the PF deletion theory of ellipsis,” Linguistic Inquiry 43:514–518
- 2011
“Focus and syntax-phonology interface,” Studies in Modern Grammar 63:183–195
- 2010
“Phrasal movement in Korean echoed verb constructions,” Korean Journal of Linguistics 35:1077–1093
- 2009
“Diachronic formal syntax: V>P reanalysis in Korean,” Studies in Modern Grammar 55:187–194
- 2009
“Further notes on nominative locatives in Korean,” Poetics & Linguistics 16:259–271
- 2009
“A note on the seem as if construction,” Journal of Language Sciences 16:227–239
- 2008
“The minimalism theorizes GB theories,” The Journal of Linguistic Science 45:93–109
- 2008
“The syntactic reanalysis of '-losseo' in Korean: from a complex predicate to a postposition,” Studies in Generative Grammar 18:271–286
- 2007
“Parameterizing syntactic positions,” Studies in Modern Grammar 50:179–207
- 2007
“The syntactic category of with in the with absolute constructions in English,” English Linguistics 7:159–170
- 2006
“Locative alternation constructions in Korean and their syntactic structure,” Language Research 42:125–137
- 2006
“The syntax of secondary predication constructions in Korean,” Korean Journal of Linguistics 31:125–141
- 2006
“An additional support for phase theory: phasehood of vP and non-phasehood of TP,” Studies in Generative Grammar 16:153–158
- 2006
“Cyclic spell-out and extraction in nominals: possessor extraction in Hungarian and extraction from “picture” nouns in English,” The Journal of Modern British & American Language & Literature 24:141–151
- 2005
“Locative alternation in English is not a syntactic alternation,” Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea 41:223–236
- 2004
“Locative inversion in Korean,” Studies in Generative Grammar 15:17–27
- 2004
“Locative alternation in English and Korean: a PredP approach,” University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics 23:338–346
- 2004
“Cyclic spell-out and VP-movement constructions,” Korean Journal of Linguistics 29:261–280
- 2004
“The EPP on the vP level,” Studies in Generative Grammar 14:87–101
- 2002
“The semantics of non-nominal tul in Korean,” Korean Linguistics 11:183–202
- 2002
“Cyclic spell-out and VP-movement constructions,” In Proceedings of the 2002 LSK International Summer Conference, 561–572
- 2001
“The morphology of event plurality in Korean,” In Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics IX, 699–682. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
- 2001
“Subject agreement in Korean: Move F, Attract F, or Agree?” The Role of Agreement in Natural Language: TLS 5 Proceedings, W. E. Griffin (ed.), 147–156. Texas Linguistics Forum, 53
- 1999
Secondary predication constructions in Korean: the copular aspects of lo. [in Korean] Master's Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Korea University
- 1999
“Agrammatism in Broca's aphasia: Dissociation of sentence production and comprehension,” Co-authors: Sung Bom Pyun, Mira Kim, & Kichun Nam. [in Korean] In Proceedings of Cognitive Science, Korea University, Seoul
- 1999
“Speech production deficits in Broca's aphasia: with reference to place of articulation,” Co-authors: Dong Hee Kim, Myung-Yoon Kang, & Kichun Nam. [in Korean] In Proceedings of Cognitive Science, Korea University, Seoul
- January 2026 ~ December 2027
Vice President, The Society of Modern Grammar
- January 2025 ~ December 2026
President, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
- January 2024 ~ December 2025
Vice President, The Society of Modern Grammar
- January 2017 ~ December 2024
International Conference Committee, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
- January 2015 ~ December 2016
The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
- January 2013 ~ December 2014
Public Relations, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
- January 2011 ~ December 2012
Public Information, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
- January 2010 ~ December 2011
Editorial board, The Society of Modern Grammar
- January 2009 ~ December 2010
International Publication, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
- March 2008 ~ February 2010
Editor, The International Society for Chomskyan Studies
- January 2006 ~ December 2008
Public Information, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
- September 2006 ~ August 2008
Board member, The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics
- Spring, 2018
Excellence in Teaching, Chung-Ang University
- Fall, 2017
Excellence in Teaching, Chung-Ang University
- Fall, 2016
Excellence in Teaching, Chung-Ang University
- Fall, 2012
Excellence in Teaching, Chung-Ang University
- Spring, 2012
Excellence in Teaching, Chung-Ang University
- May, 2007
“Ellipsis: Cross-linguistic observation” Editor, Hankook Publication Co., Seoul
- August, 2006
“Minimalist views on language design” Proceedings of the 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Editor, Hankook Publication Co., Seoul
- August, 2005
“Ellipsis in Minimalism” Proceedings of the 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Co-editor with Kiyong Choi, Hankook Publication Co., Seoul
- September 2004 ~ August 2005
Part-time instructor, Department of Linguistics, Korea University; Department of English, Sejong University; Department of English, Kwangwoon University
- Spring, 2003
Participated in and completed the Graduate Teaching Development Workshop, Center for Learning and Teaching, Cornell University
- Spring, 2002
Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University; Introduction to Linguistics (Instructor: Molly Diesing)
- Fall, 2001
Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University; project: Rapidly Portable Translingual Information Extraction and Multi-document Summarization (RIPTIDES); Claire Cardie, P.I.
- 2000 ~ 2001
Teaching Assistant, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University; Korean 101, 102, 201, and 202
- Fall, 2000
Participated in and completed the International Teaching Assistant Training Program, Cornell University
- 1998 ~ 1999
Research Assistant, Korea University; project: Brain Tech 21 (aphasia in Korean); Kichun Nam (Department of Psychology), P.I.
- 1997 ~ 1998
Administrative Assistant, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Kiyong Choi (Secretary General)
- 1996 ~ 1997
Administrative Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Korea University, Jae-Woong Choe and Beom-mo Kang (Department Chair)
- 2003 ~ 2004
Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
- 2003
Summer Fellowship, The Graduate School, Cornell University
- 2002
Starr Fellowship, East Asia Program, Cornell University
- 2002
Travel Grant (2002 LSK International Summer Conference), The Graduate School, Cornell University
- 2002
Summer Fellowship, The Graduate School, Cornell University
- 2001
Travel Grant (9th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics), The Graduate School, Cornell University
- 2001
Travel Grant (1st International Conference on Formal Linguistics in China), The Graduate School, Cornell University
- 2001
Travel Grant (2001 Texas Linguistic Society Conference), The Graduate School, Cornell University
- 2001
Summer Fellowship, The Graduate School, Cornell University
- 1999 ~ 2000
Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
- 1994
Honors Fellowship, Kwangwoon University
- Generative syntax (predication; scientific theorizing; syntax-phonology interface; diachronic generative syntax; syntax-pragmatics interface)
