Presentations
2023. (with Hyunwoo Kim and Chorong Kang). On the recovery of Korean null objects: Some challenges from experimental evidence. The 2023 Linguistic Society of Korea Winter Conference. Kyung Hee University. Dec.9. 2023.
2022. Two types of Late Merge: Evidence from Adjunct Stranding and Extraposition. University of Rochester Workshop on Alatic Formal Linguistics 16, University of Rochester, Sep 30-Oct 2, 2022. [invited talk]
2022. Postverbal adjuncts as post-syntactic late merge. NYU Brownbag. April 1, 2022. [invited talk]
2021. (with Dorothy Ahn). On non-conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers. SWELL workshop. SNU linguistics. Dec. 21-22, 2021.
2021. (with Han-byul Chung, and Chorong Kang). Acquisition of syntactic structure and transfer effects: evidence from acquisition of Korean resultative constructions. June 19, 2021, Linguistic Society of Korea. [via zoom, invited presentation]
2021. Late adjunction after spell-out: evidence from right dislocation. MIT linguistics colloquium. April 9, 2021. [invited talk]
2020. (with Kitaek Kim). Island effects and scrambling: a self-paced reading study, Linguistic Society of Korea Winter Conference, Dec. 12, 2020, On-line conference.
2020. Late Merger and Postverbal Adjuncts in Korean. Linguistics Seminar Series, Jan. 21, 2020, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
2019. Telicity and mode of Merge in L2 acquisition of resultatives. NINJAL-UHM Workshop. Oct. 12-13, 2019, University of Hawaii at Manoa. [invited talk] [presentation]
2019 Null arguments in small clauses. Universals of (c)overt anaphora in information packaging: The Commemorative Workshop for Professor Moon’s Retirement. Dongguk University, June 28, 2019. [invited talk]
2019. Scrambling out of Islands: an Experimental Approach. Workshop on Scrambling. Sogang University. Jan 31, 2019. [invited talk]
2018. Right-dislocation in Korean: an Overview. Workshop: Korean at the Nexus of Northeast Asian Linguistic Area. Seoul National University. Oct. 27, 2018. [invited talk]
2018. Changes in syntactic theory and methods in experimental syntax [in Korean] [Invited Talk]. Busan University. Aug 23-24, 2018.
2017. (with Sujeong Kim and Hyun-Kwon Yang). Telicity and modes of Merge in L2 acquisition of resultatives. GASLA 14 (The 14th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference), University of Southampton, England, 7-9 April 2017.
2017. Sideward merge in Right-dislocation [poster]. DP@60 (David Pesetsky 60). Department of Linguistics, MIT, Feb 11, 2017.
2016. Interarboreal matters in syntax: the case of right-dislocation [Invited Talk]. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 24. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Oct. 14-16. 2016.
2016. Locality and Anti-locality in Scrambling: Evidence from small clause domains. [Invited Talk] A satellite workshop at Japanese/Korean Linguistics 24. Oct. 17. 2016.
2015. Postverbal Adjuncts in Korean: Unlabeled but Concatenated. SICOGG 17. Kyunghee University, Aug. 2015. [abstract]
2015. Types of Right-Dislocation in Korean: Copies, Adjuncts, and Fragments in Syntax [Invited Talk], Workshop on Alatic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 11), University of York, June 4-6, 2015. [abstract]
2014. Right-Dislocation as Specificational Focus. Workshop on Korean/Japanese Linguistics at SNU, Oct. 17-18, 2014.
2014. Variations in Predicate Fronting out of Small Clauses. [Invited Talk], Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) 16, Dongguk Univ. August 6-9, 2014.
2014. Variations in Predicate Fronting: The role of Cyclic Linearization and Antilocality. WCCFL 32, USC. March 7-9, 2013. [handout]
2013. Slient Focus in adverbial floating quantification. [Invited Talk], Workshop on Japanese-Korean comparative linguistics, Mie University, Japan. 12/7/2013.
2013. Variations in Predicate Fronting: The role of Cyclic Linearization and Anti-locality. [Invited Talk] Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. 12/6/2013
2013. Slient Focus in adverbial floating quantification. Workshop on Sluicing and Related Phenomena. Kyunghee University. Korea, 11/08/2013.
2011. (with Chorong Kang). Dynamicity in sub-extraction phenomena. NELS 42. Nov.11-13. 2011. University of Toronto
2011. That’s not so different from the. Research center for cognitive sciences; Dept. of Psycology. Seoul National University. 11/25/2011
2011. That’s not so different from the. Research center for cognitive sciences. Konkuk University. 10/07/2011
2011. (with Chorong Kang). Dynamicity in sub-extraction phenomena. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 13) conference. August 16-19, 2011.
2011. Small clauses as a Spell-out domain. Spring Conference of Korea Generative Grammar Circle. Kyunghee University. 05/14/2011
2011. (with Tania Ionin, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, and Ken Wexler). Production and comprehension of definite expressions in L2-English. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 11), University of Washington, Seattle, March 25-27, 2011.
2010. (with Tania Ionin, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, and Ken Wexler). That’s the meaning: interpretation of definite and demonstrative descriptions in L2-English. Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 4), Toronto, Sep 1-3, 2010.
2010. Acquisition of L2-English: The Role of Presuppositionality and Demonstrative Effects. [Invited Talk]. Hanyang University Colloquium Series. 10/28/2010.
2009. Minimalist Syntax. [Invited Tutorial]. Minimalist Syntax. Tutorial. Linguistic Society of Korea, 12/10/2009. [Handout]
2009. (with Eunjeong Oh). A hybrid approach to floating quantifiers: experimental evidence. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19. University of Hawaii, Manoa. Nov. 12-14, 2009.
2009. (with Daeyoung Son). The role of merger and typology of v heads in serialization. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19. University of Hawaii, Manoa. Nov. 12-14, 2009.
2009. (with Jaeyoung Choi). Rightward Movement and Output Economy. SICOGG 11, HUFS, Aug 11-14, 2009.
2009. (with Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler). Partitivity and specificity in L2-English article use: the role of proficiency. GASLA 10. UIUC
2009. Predication and Edge Effects. [Invited Talk] Glow in Asia, 2/25-28/2009
2008. (with Eunjeong Oh). Support for a hybrid approach to floating quantifiers: evidence from experimental data. SICOGG 10, Dongguk Univeristy, 7.17-20.
2008. (with Jae Young Choi). Economy in Rightward Movement: Moving into Inner Edge [poster & alternate talk], WCCFL 27, UCLA, May 16-18, 2008
2007. Multiple Case Marking as Case Sharing: Adverbial vs. Adnominal Case [poster], NELS 38, Ottawa, Canada, October, 2007.
2007. Rigid Edges in Syntax: Evidence from VP and vP, SICOGG 9, Kwangwon University, August 8-11, 2007.
2007. (with Alex Perovic, Tania Ionin, Ken Wexler) Semantic Universals and Variation in L2 Article Choice. GASLA 9, Univ. of Iowa, May 18-20, 2007.
2007. (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk). Acquisition of Object Scrambling by Bilingual Ukrainian Children: The Role of Specificity. GASLA 9, Univ. of Iowa, May 18-20, 2007.
2007. (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk). Object Scrambling and Specificity in Bilingual Ukrainian/English Acquisition [poster], FASL 16, Stony Brook University, May 4-6, 2007
2007. Object Scrambling on the Edge: Evidence for VP as a Spell-out domain, WCCFL 26, UC Berkeley. April 27-29, 2007.
2007. (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk). Object Scrambling in Bilingual Ukrainian/English Acquisition: The Specificity Effect, Workshop on acquisition of variable word order, GLOW, Tromsø, April 12-14, 2007.
2006. The Syntax of Wh-Movement, Dept. of Linguistics, Invited Talk, Seoul National University, June 2, 2006
2006. Object Scrambling on the Edge: Evidence for VP as a Spell-out domain, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, May 18-20, 2006 [poster presentation]
2005. Two types of quantifiers and cyclic linearization. the 11th Harvard ISOKL, Harvard University.
2005. Association via Raising: Inalienable Possession Construction in Korean. Workshop on Raising and Control, Harvard University/LSA Summer institute.
2005. Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization, CUNY Supper, Invited Talk, The CUNY Graduate Center, November 29, 2005.
2005. Universal Grammar: theory and practice. New Faculty Symposium, Invited Talk, SUNY at Stony Brook. November 18, 2005.
2005. Rigid Edges: Restrictions on movement out of edge zones. Invited Talk, Workshop on SOV Variation, Syracuse University, April 9-10, 2005
2005. Asymmetries in Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization. Invited Talk, McGill University, Canada, March 11, 2005.
2005. Possessor Raising, Quantification and Linear order in Korean. Invited talk, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, the COE project & the JSPS project, Kyoto University, Japan, February 21-23, 2005.
2005. The indefinites: Parallels between L1 and L2 Acquisition of English Articles. Invited Talk, University of South Carolina, February 14, 2005. [abstract]
2005. Semantic Features in UG: Perspectives from L2-English Article Choice. Invited Talk, SUNY at Stony Brook, Feburary 8, 2005. [handout] [powerpoint]
2005. Interlanguage Grammar in Second Language Acquisition. Invited Lecture. Error Analysis Class (instructed by Prof. Marie Huffman). SUNY at Stony Brook, February 7, 2005. [handout] [powerpoint]
2005. Internal Structure of DP, Movement of Possessor, and Floating Quantifiers. Workshop on Japanese/Korean linguistics, MIT, January 25, 2005.
2005. Movement of Possessor and Consequences of Cyclic Linearization, the 2005 Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, January, 6-9, 2005 [Handout] [Reference]
2004. (with Tania Ionin and Ken Wexler) Adult L2-learners lack the maximality presupposition, too. GALANA 1 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, December 17-20, 2004 [awarded an NSF-sponsored Student Travel Fellowship]. [abstract] [handout] [Power Point]
2004. (with Tania Ionin and Ken Wexler) Parallels between L1- and L2-acquisition of determiners: the role of partitivity. BUCLD 29 (Boston University Conference on Language Development), Boston University, November 5-7, 2004. [poster]
2004. Distributing Floating Quantifiers. Invited Talk, WAFL 2 (Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics-2), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 11 - 13, 2004.
2004. The Height of Causal Wh-adverbials in in-situ languages and Its Corollaries, SICOGG 6 (6th Seoul International Conference On Generative Grammar), Hansung University, August 9-12, 2004.
2004. Cylic Linearization and Constraints on Scrambling: Evidence from Floating Quantifiers, Linguisitc Society of Korea International Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, July 28-30, 2004.
2004. (with Michael Wagner, Linnaea Stockall, Sid Kouider, and Alec Marantz) Visual Word Form Recognition: An MEG study using Masked Priming, Biomag 2004, Boston, MA, August 9-12, 2004. [abstract] [poster]
2004. Constraining Scrambling: Cyclic Linearization and Subject Movement, WCCFL 23 (the23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), UC Davis, California, April 23-25, 2004. [Abstract] [Handout] [Paper]
2004. Syntax of why-in-situ: Merge into [Spec,CP] in the overt syntax (Manuscript, MIT), Paper read in the class of CAS LX 523 Syntax II, (Instructed by Prof. Paul Hagstorm), Boston University, Boston, Spring, 2004.
2004. Cyclic Linearization and Asymmetry in Scrambling, LSA (the 78th Linguistic Society of America Annunal Meeting), Boston, January 08-11, 2004. [Abstract] [Handout]
2003. Asymmetry in Scrambling and Cyclic Spell-out, Approaching Asymmetry at Interfaces (AAI) Conference, University of Quebec at Montreal, October 24-25, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout]
2003. (with Tania Ionin and Ken Wexler). A definite pattern of L2-English article use: the role of specificity, BUCLD 28 (Boston University Conference on Language Development), Boston University, October 31 - November 2, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout]
2003. Syntax of why-in-situ: Merge into [Spec,CP] in the overt syntax (Manuscript, MIT), Paper read in the class of Topics in Wh and Polarity, (Instructed by Prof. Rajesh Bhatt), University of Texas, Austin, Fall, 2003.
2003. Cyclic Linearization and Asymmetry in Scrambling, Ling-Lunch at MIT, October 16, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout]
2003. why before the subject, and where after the subject in Child Korean, GALA (Generative Approach to Language Acquisition), Utrecht, the Netherlands, September 04- 06, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout]
2003. (with Tania Ionin and Ken Wexler). Two sides of the same coin: the with indefinites and a with definites in L2-English, GALA (Generative Approach to Language Acquisition), Utrecht, the Netherlands, September 04-06, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout]
2003. (with Tania Ionin and Ken Wexler). The Semantics of Article Choice in the L2-English of Korean Speakers, the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference at Michgan State Univerisity, August 01-03, 2003.[Abstract] [Handout]
2003. External-Merge of ‘why’ in Korean: Support for existence of subject scrambling, the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference at Michgan State Univerisity, August 01-03, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout] [Paper]
2003. Cyclic Spell-Out and Asymmetry in Scrambling, an invited talk at Advanced Topics in Syntax Class in the LSA 2003 Summer Institute (Instructed by Prof. David Pesetsky), Michigan State Univeristy, August, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout]
2003. (with Tania Ionin and Ken Wexler). Specificity as a grammatical notion: Evidence from L2-English use. Presented at WCCFL 22 (the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), University of California, San Diego, March 21–23, 2003 [Abstract] [Handout] [Paper]
2003. When in-situ languages diverge: Altaic vs. Non-Altaic wh-adjunct constructions, Presented at WAFL 1 (Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics-1), MIT, May 16-18, 2003. [Abstract] [Handout] [Paper]
2003. Two Ways of Licensing why in Korean, the 77th LSA (Linguistic Society of America Annunal Meeting), Atlanta, Georgia. January 02-05, 2003.[Abstract] [Handout]
2002. On the Origin of Why-in-situ, Workshop On Wh-Movement, Leiden University/Utrecht, December 11-12, 2002, the Netherlands. [Abstract] [Handout] [Paper]
2002. External-Merge of Why-in-situ, Ling-Lunch, MIT. October 17, 2002. [Abstract] [Handout]
2001. Aspect Shift and Durative Adverbials, In Kim, Yong Bum (ed.) Modification and Complementation, the 2001 Annual conference of the Korean Society for Language and Information. [Abstract] [Paper]