Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
(to appear) A comparative syntax of the formal politeness markers in Japanese and Korean: -mas/-des and -(su)pni. The Linguistic Review.
2023 Exceptional ECM with a cognitive verb in Korean. Language and Linguistics 101, 31-48.
2022 Clause types, intonation, and stranded embedded clauses. Journal of Linguistics, 1-24. [2024. Journal of Linguistics: Special Section: Non-canonical questions at the syntax–prosody interface 60(1), 51-74.]
2022 Numeral classifiers in Korean -ki nominalizations. Linguistic Research 39.3, 499-518. [with Michael Barrie and Heeryun Chung]
2022 The syntax of temporal adverbial clauses in Korean and its implications. Language Research 58.2, 141-156.
2022 A cartographic approach to the right periphery: The dual status of Italian sembrare and its Korean counterpart. Studia Linguistica 76, 772-790.
2021 Reducing the many uses of -e into one: A morphological closer. Studies in Generative Grammar 31.2, 309-328.
2020 Three ways to see in Korean: Sentence final endings, clause structure, and the subjunctive circumstantial evidence construction. Linguistic Research 37.3, 477-498.
2020 Reduced NP comparatives in Korean and their implications. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 29.3, 337-364.
2019 On certain adjacency effects in ellipsis contexts. Linguistic Inquiry 50:2, 337-355.
2018 On the word order of numeral quantifier constructions. Studia Linguistica 72.3: 662-686.
2018 A way to avoid islands. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 27, 173-209.
2018 NP-Juxtaposition and co-involvement: A uniform analysis of conjunctives, comitatives, and comparatives. Studies in Generative Grammar 28(1), 187- 211.
2017 Different in conjunctives, comitatives, and comparatives. Linguistic Research 34.3, 215-238.
2016 Extra deletion in fragments and its implications. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25.4, 313-350.
2016 On some expressions of plurality in Korean and their implications: With reference to Chinese and Japanese. Linguistic Research 33.2, 205-227.
2015 An Alternative Possibility for Focus Domain Expansion: A Reply to Chung 2014. Studies in Generative Grammar 25.1, 321-332.
2014 Genitive Case in Korean and its implications for noun phrase structure. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 23.4: 361-392.
2013 An elaboration of An’s (2012b) analysis of MAP and NPE: A reply to Lee (2012). Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1: 175-198.
2012 Genitive Case from a Minimalist point of view: With special reference to Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 37-3, 607-621. (written in Korean)
2012 Genitive Case, quantifier float and their implications for noun phrase structure in Korean. Studies in Generative Grammar 22-3, 595-605.
2012 NP-ellipsis, its impostors, and minor argument pronominalization. Korean Journal of Linguistics 37.2, 345-356.
2011 Morphological processing of final endings and pre-final endings in Korean verbs: Evidence from priming experiments. The Journal of Linguistic Science 59, 181-202. (with Hee-Don Ahn, Jung-Yun Choi, Jong-Bai Hwang, Ji-Hyon Kim, Moongee Jeon)
2011 Chinese learners’ processing of nominal suffixes in Korean. Foreign Languages Education 18.3, 57-71. (with Hee-Don Ahn, Jung-Yun Choi, Jong-Bai Hwang, Ji-Hyon Kim, Moongee Jeon)
2011 A Note on Wilder's (2008) multiple dominance analysis of the Right Node Raising construction. Korean Journal of Linguistics 36-2, 439-455.
2011 Processing nominal suffixes in Korean: Evidence from priming experiments. Journal of Linguistic Sciences 15.1, 1-12. (with Hee-Don Ahn, Jung-Yun Choi, Jong-Bai Hwang, Moongee Jeon, Ji-Hyon Kim)
2011 Fragments, clause type, and clausal architecture. Studies in Generative Grammar 21, 201-214. [with Hee-Don Ahn]
2010 A note on the nature of head movement. Studies in Modern Grammar 62, 135-148.
2008 ATB multiple wh-fronting and lower copy pronunciation in some Slavic languages. Studies in Generative Grammar 18, 583-599.
2007 Clauses in non-canonical positions at the syntax-phonology interface. Syntax 10, 38-79.
2007 On the distribution of NPIs in Korean. Natural Language Semantics 15, 317-350.
Book Chapters
2014 A comparative syntax of ellipsis in Japanese and Korean. Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective, ed. by Mamoru Saito, 117-138. Oxford University Press. (with Mamoru Saito)
2014 NP-ellipsis and minor argument pronominalization in Korean. Division and Unification of Syntactic Theory: Focusing on Null Arguments in Korean, ed. by Myung-Kwan Park, 71-84. Seoul: Hankuk Mwunhwasa. (written in Korean)
2013 What is not NP-ellipsis in Korean. In Deep Insights, Broad Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Mamoru Saito. by Hideki Maki, Yoichi Miyamoto and Daiko Takahashi (eds.), Ch.2, 22-42. Kaitakusha.