Publications

Book:

• Ko, Heejeong (2014). Edges in Syntax: Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization. Oxford University Press [Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Monograph Series 50].

Papers [pre-publication drafts]:

• Ko, Heejeong, Hyunwoo Kim, and Chorong Kang. (2023). On the recovery of Korean null objects: Some challenges from experimental evidence. Journal of Humanities 80(4): 119-158. 

• Kang, Chorong, Hyunwoo Kim, and Heejeong Ko. (2023). Ambiguity and priming in silent structures: evidence from comprehension of null objects. Journal of Humanities 80(4): 159-194.

• Ko, Heejeong (2022). Right Dislocation in Korean: An overview. In Cambridge Handbook of Korean Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.

• Ahn, Dorothy, and Heejeong Ko. (2022). On non-conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers. Glossa 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5776 

• Kim, Sujeong, Heejeong Ko, and Hyun-Kwon Yang (2020). Telicity and mode of Merge in L2 acquisition of resultatives. Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2019.1659275

• Ko, Heejeong, Han-byul Chung, Kitaek Kim, and Jon Sprouse (2019). An Experimental Study on Scrambling out of Islands: To the Left and to the Right. Language & Information Society 37: 287-323.

• Ko, Heejeong (2018). Development and Propsects of Syntactic Theories in Generative Grammar [Written in Korean]. Korean Linguistics 81: 1-33.

• Ko, Heejeong (2018). Scrambling in Korean Syntax. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Ko, Heejeong (2017). Right-dislocation: copies vs. fragments. In A Pesky set: A festschrift for David Pesetsky. MIT working papers in linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA, pp.253-262.

• Ko, Heejeong (2016). Gapless right-dislocation: The role of overt correlates. Language Research 52: 1-20.

• Ko, Heejeong (2015). On the Typology of Small Clauses: Null subject and mode of merge in resultatives. Studies in Generative Grammar 25 (2): 347-375.

• Ko, Heejeong (2015). Two ways to the right: a hybrid approach to right-dislocation in Korean. Language Research 51: 3-40

• Ko, Heejeong  (2015). Variations in Predicate Fronting: The Role of Anti-locality and Cyclic Linearization. In WCCFL 32 Proceedings, pp. 258-267.

• Ko, Heejeong and Daeyong Sohn (2015). Decomposing complex serialization: the role of v. Korean Linguistics 17(1): 78-125 [published by John Benjamins]

• Ko, Heejeong (2014). Remarks on Right Dislocation Construction in Korean: Challenges to biclausal analyses. Language Research 50 (2):  275-310.

• Ko, Heejeong (2014). Psycholinguistics [written in Korean]. Encyclopedia of www. naver.com. 

• Ko, Heejeong and Satbyeol Seo. (2012). NP-ellipsis revisited: the role of D feature. Studies in Generative Grammar 22(4): 677-702.

• Ko, Heejeong and Eunjeong Oh. (2012). A hybrid approach to floating quantifiers: some experimental evidence. Linguistic Research 29(1): 1-40. 

• Tania Ionin, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, Heejeong Ko and Ken Wexler (2012). That’s not so different from the: definite and demonstrative expressions in second language acquisition. Second Language Research. 28(1): 69-101

• Ko, Heejeong. (2011). Predication and Edge Effects. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29: 725-778. [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com]

• Kang, Chorong and Heejeong Ko (2011). Dynamicity in Sub-extraction Phenomena. In Proceedings of SICOGG 13, pp.221-237.

• Ko, Heejeon and Eunjeong Oh (2011). A Hybrid Approach to Floating Quantifiers: Experimental Evidence. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19 [15 pages]

• Sohn, Daeyoung and Heejeong Ko (2011). The Role of Merger and Typology of v Heads in Serialization. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19 [15 pages]

• Ionin, Tania, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler (2011). That’s the meaning: interpretation of definite and demonstrative descriptions in L2-English. In GALANA 2010 proceedings.

• Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler (2010). The role of presuppositionality in the second language acquisition of English articles. Linguistic Inquiry 41(2): 213-254.

• Mykhaylyk, Roksolana and Heejeong Ko (2010). Optional Scrambling is not Random: Evidence from English-Ukrainian Acquisition, In Variation in the Input, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics series vol. 39, ed. by Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, and Marit Westergaard. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 207-240.

• Ko, Heejeong (2009). Multiple Case Sharing and Syntactic Structure. Studies in Generative Grammar 19(4): 423-451. [updated version of NELS 38 paper with experimental evidence]

• Ko, Heejeong (2009). Multiple Case Marking as Case Sharing: Adverbial vs. Adnominal Case, in NELS 38 Proceedings, volume 1I, pp.15-26.

• Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler. (2009). L2-Acquisition of English articles by Korean speakers, in Handbook of East Asian PsycholinguisticsVolume III Korean, ed. Chungmin Lee, Greg B. Simpson, and Youngjin Kim, pp. 286-304, Cambridge University Press.

• Ko, Heejeong, and Jaeyoung Choi (2009). Rightward Movement and Output Economy. in SICOGG 11 Proceedings.

• Ko, Heejeong, Alex, Perovic, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler (2008). Semantic Universals and Variation in L2 Article Choice, in GASLA 9 Proceedings 

• Ko, Heejeong. (2008). Object scrambling on the edge: evidence for VP as a Spell-out domain, in WCCFL 26 Proceedings.

• Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Heejeong Ko (2008). Acquisition of Object Scrambling by Bilingual Ukrainian Children: The Role of Specificity, in GASLA 9 Proceedings 

• Ko, Heejeong. (2008). Subject Scrambling, in Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Sun-Ah Jun, Peter Sells, Patricia M. Clancy, Shoichi Iwasaki, Sung-Ock Sohn (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13, CSLI Publication.  

• Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko and Ken Wexler. (2008). The Role of Semantic Features in the Acquisition of English Articles by Russian and Korean speakers,  in J. M. Liceras et al. (eds.), The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition, pp. 226-269, Second language research acquisition series (Theoretical and Methodological Issues), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

• Mykhaylyk, Roksolana and Heejeong Ko (2008). Object Scrambling and Specificity in Bilingual Ukrainian-English Acquisition, in FASL 16 Proceedings, ed. Andrei Antonenko, John Bailyn, and Christina Bethin, pp. 297-312. Michigan Slavic Publications..

• Ko, Heejeong. (2007). Asymmetries in scrambling and cyclic linearization, Linguistic Inquiry 38: 49-83

• Ko, Heejeong. (2006). Base-Output Correspondence in Korean Nominal Inflection, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 15 (3): 195-243

• Ko, Heejeong. (2006). On the Structural Height of Reason Wh-Adverbials: acquisition and consequences, in L. Cheng and N. Corver (eds.), Wh-Movement Moving On, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp.319-349

• Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler (2006). Adult L2-learners lack the Maximality presupposition, too!. in K. U. Deen et al (eds), The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative  Approaches to Language Acquisition–North America, Honolulu, HI. University of Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4, 171-182. 

• Ko, Heejeong. (2005). Constraining Scrambling: Cyclic Linearization and Subject Movement, in B. Schmeiser, V. Chand, A. Kelleher, and A. Rodriguez (eds.), Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 23 (WCCFL 23), Cascadilla Press, Somerville, pp.500-513. 

• Ko, Heejeong (2005). Syntactic Edges and Linearization, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT. [Thesis committee: Prof. David Pesetsky (Chair), Prof. Danny Fox, Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa, Prof. Norvin Richards]  

• Ko, Heejeong . (2005). Syntax of Why-in-situ: Merge into [Spec,CP] in the overt syntax, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 23 (4): 867-916. [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com] 

• Ko, Heejeong. (2005). Asymmetries in Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization, ms., MIT [this paper appeared in Linguistic Inquiry 38 with minor revisions].

• Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2004). Article semantics in L2-acquisition: the role of specificity, Language Acquisition 12 (1): 3-69 

• Ferreira, Marcelo and Heejeong Ko. (2003). Questions in Buli, In M. Kenstowicz and G. Akanlig-Pare (eds.) Studies in Buli Grammar, MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages 4, MITWPL, Cambridge, MA, pp. 35-44. 

• Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2003). Specificity as a grammatical notion: Evidence from L2-English use, in G. Garding and M. Tsujimura, Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 22 (WCCFL 22), Cascadilla Press, Somerville, pp. 245-258.