Dongwoo Park
My research focuses on syntax and its interfaces with semantics and phonology. A central goal of my research is to examine how syntactic knowledge is represented in grammar through careful examination of multiple languages including English and Korean.
Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature, Korea National Open University
email: dongwoop@knou.ac.kr
office: Main Building 318, 86 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea. 03087
TEL: +82-2-3668-4565 / FAX: +82-2-3673-2295
Research topics I am interested in:
Ellipsis (esp. derivational approaches to ellipsis)
Head movement
Labeling theory
Case theory
Academic appointments:
2023 - present
Associate professor (Korea National Open University. Department of English Language and Literature)
2018 - 2023
Assistant professor (Korea National Open University. Department of English Language and Literature)
2018
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Sogang University, Department of English Language and Literature )
Education:
2017
University of Maryland, College Park (Ph.D. in Linguistics) [advisors: Howard Lasnik, Omer Preminger]; Dissertation: When does ellipsis occur, and what is elided?; Committee: Howard Lasnik (co-chair), Omer Preminger (co-chair), Norbert Hornstein, Maria Polinsky, Michael Israel
2011
Seoul National University (M.A. in English Language and Literature) [advisor: Eun-Jung Yoo]
2009
Seoul National University (B.A. in English Language and Literature; B.A. in Linguistics) summa cum laude