Refereed Journal Articles
2026 Tenseless clausal coordination and the system of tense marking in Korean. The Linguistic Review. Online first.
2025 Extra deletion in retrospect and prospect. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 34(3): 361–405.
2025 The comparative syntax of evidential markers in Korean and Japanese: A cartographic perspective. Studia Linguistica 79(2): 448-467.
(with Masako Maeda, Kyushu University)
2024 A comparative syntax of the formal politeness markers in Japanese and Korean: -mas/-des and -(su)pni. The Linguistic Review 41(4), 637-660.
2024 Clause types, intonation, and stranded embedded clauses. Journal of Linguistics: Special Section: Non-canonical questions at the syntax–prosody interface 60(1), 51-74. [online version appeared in JofLing in 2022.]
2023 Exceptional ECM with a cognitive verb in Korean. Language and Linguistics 101, 31-48.
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
2026 On a reason wh-adjunct in Korean. New insights into theoretical syntax from Asian languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Haung. John Benjamins.
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.