RESEARCH
Research
Interests
My research interests include various aspects of syntax and
semantics of Korean and Japanese:
The linguistic data in my research are chiefly from Korean
and Japanese: I am a native speaker of both languages. Topics of my research
papers have concentrated specifically in the phenomena of word order,
quantifier-floating, negation, and the constructions of modality and relative
clauses. Recently, I wrote several
papers on scalar focus particles of Korean and Japanese. I also published a
paper on figurative principles and grammaticalization in the honorific systems
of both languages. An expanded version of the latest work is in preparation for
publication.
In addition to the linguistic discipline, my academic
pursuits also include the cultural history of the Far Eastern region,
particularly critical impacts from the Korean peninsula on the early formation
of Japanese civilization. These impacts have been not only largely neglected in
the academic literature but also more often than not deliberately undermined
and misrepresented to the general public by ultra-nationalist scholars of the
late 18th century and even by their ideological followers of today’s
Japan.
Publications
Doctoral
Dissertation:
The
Grammar of Focus in Korean Syntax and Its Typological Implications. Committee Chair: Professor Bernard Comrie.
Articles in
Professional Journals and Book Chapters:
The Role of Word
Order in Syntactic Change: Sentence-Final Prominence in Korean Negation.
1977. In Proceedings of the Third Annual
Meeting of the
A Universal of WH-Questions and Its Parametric Variants in Verb-Final
Languages, 1982. In Papers from the Parasession
on Nondeclaratives,
The Function of
Linear Order in Korean Syntax. 1985. In Susumu Kuno
et al (eds.) Harvard Workshop on Korea Linguistics. 154-167.
Preverbal Focusing
and Type XXIII Languages. 1988. In M. Hammond, In E. Moravcsik
and J. Wirth (eds) Studies
in Syntactic Typology,
Numeral Quantifier
Constructions and Definiteness Restrictions in Korean. 1990. In E. J. Baek (ed.) Papers from the 7th International Conference
on Korean Linguistics. 121-131.
Information Flow
and Relative Clause Constructions in Korean Discourse. (with Hyon-sook Shin) 1994. In Young-Key Kim Renaud
(ed.) Theoretical Issues in Korean Linguistics. Stanford: Center for the
Study of Language and Information. 463-493.
Grammaticalization
and the Korean Modal Schema. 1995. In Chungmin
Lee (ed.) Interfaces in Korean Linguistics: 1993
Word Order at the
Noun-Phrase Level in Japanese: Quantifier-Float and Discourse Functions. 1995.
In Michael Noonan and Pamela Downing (eds.) Word Order in Discourse.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing
Company. 199-246.
A View from the
Cocoon --- Space categorization in the Korean Verb na.ka.ta.
1996. Journal of Linguistic Studies. Inaugural Issue. 123-169. (Included
in the ERIC database).
The Positions of
Quantifiers and Discourse Functions. (co-authored with
Space
Honorification in Korean (co-authored by Chungmin Lee of
The NPI pakkey and Negation of
Universal Quantifier in Korean. 1998. In Susumu Kuno
et al (eds.) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VII . 323-338.
Nominalization of Verbals and Attributive Markers in Korean and Japanese. In
Nancy M. Luts and Ronald P. Schaffer (eds.) 1999.
1998 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers. The
Out of Gerund: A
Functional View of Sentential Nominalizations in Korean. 1999. In Susumu Kuno et al.(eds.) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics
VIII 385-402.
Is
Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation?...Contextual Analysis of
the Numeral Quantifier Construction in Old Japanese. 2000. In J. C. Smith and
Delia Bentley. Historical Linguistics 1995. Volume 1.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 160-190.
Quantifier Shift
and <Specificity> in Korean Discourse. 2001. Journal of Linguistic
Studies 6. 17-34.
Korean ppun and Japanese bakari:
A comparative analysis in syntax and semantics. 2001. In Susumu Kuno et al (eds.) Harvard Studies on Korean Linguistics
IX . 56-70.
Correspondences in
Scalar Focus Particles of Japanese and Korean: A Comparative Perspective"
2001. In Kaoru Horie and Shigaharu
Sato (eds.) Cognitive-Functional Linguistics in an East Asian Context .
Tokyo: Kuroshio Publishing Company. 207-234.
Functional
specialization of exclusion particles: Korean man/ppun
and Japanese dake/bakari. 2003. In Gregory
Iverson and Sang-Cheol Ahn
(eds.) Explorations in Korean language and linguistics. Seoul: Hanshin
Publishing Co. 137-166.
日本語の敬語体系の原則とメタ言語的文法化 (Principles and
Meta-linguistic Grammaticalization in the Japanese Honorific System) 2004. In
Taro Kageyama and Hideki Kishimoto
(eds.) 日本語の分析と 言語類型:柴谷方良教授還暦記念論文集 (Analyses
of Japanese and Language Typology: Festschrift for Professor Masayoshi
Shibatani.)
Presentations at Professional Meetings:
·
"Diachronic
Change in Affixal Causatives in Korean, " Paper
presented at the Fourth Annual Berkeley Linguistic Society. 1978.
· "The Negative Suffix zu
in Old Japanese," Paper presented at New England Regional Meeting of
Association for Asian Studies, Wellesley College, CT. 1981.
· "Scope-bearing Elements as Indices of Syntactic Configurationality," (with John Whitman), Paper
presented at New England Linguistic Society, MIT. 1982.
· "The Split-level Word Orders in Korean
Syntax." Paper presented at The International Conference on Cross-cultural
Communication, Sejong Hotel, Seoul,
Korea. August 1985.
· "The Position of WH-Word
and the Function of Word Order in Korean." Paper presented at Conference
on Korean Language Teaching. University of Southern
California. February 23, 1985.
· "Evidence for Diagrammatic Iconicity: Honorific
and Speech Level Categories in Korean Verb Morphology," Paper presented at
the Pacific Linguistic Conference, University of Oregon. 1986.
· "Attributive Morpheme -n in Korean NP
Constructions," Paper presented at the Second Harvard Workshop on Korean
Linguistics. 1987.
· "The Scope of Honorifics and Conditions of Its
Extension in Japanese and Korean,'" Paper presented at Pacific Linguistic
Conference, University of Oregon. 1987.
· "Categorial Order of
Honorific Morphemes in the Verbal Complex of Korean and Japanese," Paper read
at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco.
1988.
· "A Fourth Category of Japanese Honorifics, "
Paper read at the Conference on Honorifics, Reed College & Portland State
University. April 8, 1988. (as a conference co-organizer)
· "Honorifics as a Subset of the Universal Animacy Parameter," Paper presented at the
International Symposium on Language Universals, University of Antwerp, (UIA) Belgium. December, 1988.
· "Two Levels of Word Order in Functional
Grammar," Paper presented at the Third International Conference on
Functional Grammar, at the Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam, Holland. June, l988.
· "Discourse Word Order on the NP Level in Japanese
and Korean," Paper presented at The 20th Annual Linguistics Symposium,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April, 1991.
·
"Quantifier-Floating
in Relative Clause Construction," Paper presented at the Workshop on
Korean Linguistics, Summer Institute of Linguistic Society of America. University of California, Santa Cruz. August 1991.
· "Relativizing from Two
Presentational Forms," The 66th Annual Winter Meeting of Linguistic
Society of America, Philadelphia, PA.
· “Where errors like ‘Clyde marries with
Bonnie’ in Japanese learners of English come from---A Cognitive
Approach,” International Conference on Pragmatics, University of
Illinois, Champagne Urbana. April 2-5, 1992.
· "Typology of Referential Points and Reciprocal
Verbs in Korean," Paper presented at Workshop on discourse and cognitive
Linguistics. Sokang University, Seoul, Korea. June,
2, 1992.
·
"Quantifier
Shift and Specificity in Korean and Japanese," Paper presented at Seoul
International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL 92),
Korea University, Seoul, Korea. July 30, 1992.
·
"Information
Flow and Relativization in Korean Discourse,"
Paper (with Hyon-Sook Shin) presented at The 8th
International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, George Washington University,
Washington D.C. August 8, 1992.
·
"Postposing in Korean," Paper (with Hyon-Sook
Shin) presented at The XVth International Congress of
Linguists, Laval University, Quebec, Canada. August 11, 1992.
·
"Grammaticalization
and Korean Modal Schema," Paper presented at the Interfaces in Korean
Linguistics, The Summer Institute of Linguistic Society of America, at Ohio
State University, Columbus, OH. July 17-18, 1993.
·
"Conversational
Implicature and Biconditionality
in the Japanese Modal Representations" Paper presented at the 4th
International Pragmatics Conference, Shoin Women's
University, Kobe, Japan. July 27, 1993.
·
"Variables
in Redressive Strategies in the Japanese Honorific
System," Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Conference on Asian Affairs at John Carroll University, Cleveland Museum of
Art, Cleveland, Ohio. October 1-3. 1993.
·
"On
Martin's Palatalization Hypothesis of Japanese wa
and the Modern Korean ya," Paper
presented at The Fourth Annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, UCLA.
October 17, 1993.
·
"The
Adverbial Particle ya in Korean, and a Second Look
at the Modern Japanese wa and the lost
Old Japanese ya." Paper presented at the
Ninth International Conference on Korean Linguistics. SOAS,
University of London. July 20, 1994. Served Chair for a syntax panel.
·
"In
Search of a Forgotten Game of the Man'yo
Japan: The Origin of <kariuchi > and
Some Linguistic Implications." Paper presented at the Midwest Conference
on Asian Affairs, 43rd Annual Meeting, at Western Illinois University, Macomb,
Illinois. September 24, 1994.
·
"How
to negate Universal Quantifiers---Confinement of Negator
to VP and Its Consequences in Verb-Final Languages." Paper presented at LSA Annual Meeting at New Orleans. January 7, 1995.
·
"Is
Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? --- A Contextual Analysis
of the NQ Construction in Old Japanese." Paper presented at The 12th
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, The University of
Manchester, UK. August 13-18, 1995.
·
"Metalinguistic Negation in Two Verb-Final Languages: Case
Study from Japanese and Korean." Paper presented at the 1996 Annual
Linguistic Society of America, San Diego. CA. January 6, 1996.
·
"Quantifier
Positions and Discourse Functions in Korean Syntax." Paper presented at
the Tenth International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning.
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. March 22, 1996.
·
"Post-nominal
Quantifier Constructions and Discourse Functions in Japanese and Korean
Conversations." Paper (with Sun-Ok Park of Chinju
Tech., Korea) presented at the International Pragmatics Association held at
Mexico City. July 5, 1996.
·
"What
Makes a Single Word Mean Both ENTER and EXIT? --- Space Categorization in
Japanese and Korean." Papers presented at SIUC
Linguistic Luncheon Series. October 25, 1996.
·
"The
NPI pakkey and
Negation of Universal Quantifier in Korean." Paper presented at The 7th
Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics. Harvard University. July
12, 1997.
·
"The
Antonym Dichotomy 'EXIT' vs. 'ENTER' in a Single Lexeme: Space Categorization
in Japanese and Korean." Paper presented at the 1997 Mid-America
Linguistics Conference. University of Missouri-Columbia. October 15, 1997.
·
"Diagrammatic
Iconicity Revisited: Categorical Sequencing in Japanese Verb Morphology."
Paper presented at the 12th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and
Language Learning. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. February 28,
1998.
·
"A
Comparative Note on Special Particles: Old Japanese namu
and Korean lang/nun." Paper to be
presented at the Eleventh International Conferences on Korean Linguistics (ICKL 1998) at University of Hawaii, July 6-9, 1998.
·
"From
the Attributive Marker to the Sentential Nominalizer:
Grammaticalization in Internally-Headed Relative Clauses in Japanese and
Korean." Paper presented at the 1998 Mid-America Linguistics Conference.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville/ Carbondale. October 28, 1998. Served
Chair for a syntax panel.
·
"Out
of Gerund: A Functional View of Sentential Nominalizations in Korean" Paper
presented at the Eighth International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard
University. July 16, 1999. Served Chair for a Syntax Panel.
·
"Oblique
Cases and VP Truncation in the so-called Gap-less Relative Clauses in Korean
and Japanese: A Syntactically-based Account." Paper presented at
Conference on Korean Linguistics in conjunction with the 1999 Summer Institute
of Linguistic Society of America. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
July 23, 1999. Served Chair for a Syntax Panel.
·
"Grammaticalization
from the Attributive Marker to the Sentential Nominalizer:
Evidence in Japanese" Paper presented at the Fourteenth International
Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL XIV),
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. August 9, 1999.
·
"Complementizer Typology and Word-Order Effects in OV Languages." Paper presented at the Third Biennial
Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. University of Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 27, 1999.
·
"Another
face of Brown & Levinson's Face: An Honorific Model in Japanese,"
Paper presented at Politeness Conference, Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand. December 7-9, 1999.
·
“Metaphors
and Maxims in Japanese Honorifics.” Paper presented at The Second
International conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese. San Francisco
State University, San Francisco, CA. April1-2, 2000.
·
"What
can Korean relative clause construction tell us about Japanese Nominalization
construction?" Invited paper presented at a Special Session on Typology,
International Conference on Korean Linguistics. Prague, The Czech Republic.
July 15, 2000.
·
“Scalar
Particles in Japanese and Korean: A Comparative-Historical Perspective,”
Paper presented at The Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics
& Pragmatics, University of Cambridge, UK. September 11-13. 2000.
·
"Japanese
bakari and Korean ppun:
a comparative analysis in syntax and semantics" Paper presented at Harvard
the Ninth International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University.
July 14, 2001. Served Chair for a comparative linguistics panel.
·
“Unaccusativity in Korean.” Paper to be read at
Linguistic Society of Korea International Summer Conference. Kyunghee University, Korea. August 5-7, 2002.
·
”Conceptualization
of Modalities and Iconic Representation in Japanese Grammar.” Paper to be
presented at an International Conference “From Gram to Mind: Grammar as
Cognition” at Universiti Michel de Montaigne-Bordeauz 3, France. May 19-21, 2005.
· “Politeness Markers from Lexical Verbs: Two Cases of Korean/Japanese Interactions in Honorifics.” Paper presented at The 11th Harvard (Biennial) International Symposium on Korean Linguistics. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. August 5, 2005
·“Grammaticalization in Addressee Honorifics in Korean and Japanese.” Paper presented at The 15th International Conference on Korean Linguistics (ICKL 2006) at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. July 11, 2006.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Focusing
in Korean.” at the Department of Linguistics. Moderator: Professor Joseph
Aoun. University of Southern California. 1983.
“Preverbal
Focusing in OV Languages.” at the Linguistic
Colloquium, U.C.LA. Moderator: Professor Paul Schachter. 1985.
“Preverbal
Focusing in Korean and Japanese.” UCLA Korean/Japanese Linguistics
Workshop. Moderator: Professor Pamela Downing. 1985.
“Conditional
Constructions in Korean and Japanese Modal System.” at the Linguistics
Colloquium, University of Oregon. Moderator: Professor Talmy
Givón.1987
“Argument
Canceling in Korean and Japanese” at the Language Research Institute,
Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea. Moderator: Professor Sang-Oak Lee. May
21, 1992.
“Typology
of Referential Points and Reciprocal Verbs in Korean,” at
Discourse/Cognitive Linguistics Workshop at Sogang
University, Seoul. June 20, 1992. Moderator: Professor Sung-Yun
Park.
“On Japanese Culture.” at a Culture Workshop at Center for ESL,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Moderator: Director Richard Daesch. September, 1992.
“Cultures
of Korean, Japan and the US---A comparative perspective. A public lecture given
at the Twegye Research Institute, Kyungbuk
National University. Taegu, Korea. November 4, 1995.
Moderator: Professor Hwi-Chil Song.
“On
Metalinguistic Negation in Korean and
Japanese.” Paper presented at Language Research Institute, Seoul National
University. November 10, 1995. Moderator: Professor Ki-Sun
Hong.
“A
Note on the Modal Particle ya in Modern Korean and
Old Japanese.” Paper presented at The Linguistic Society of Cheju National University. November 17, 1995. Moderator:
Professor Ki-suk Lee.
“What
do you have other than O. .J. Simpson and Soap Operas on Television? A
Professor’s view of Information Highway and TV Media in the present-day
America. A public speech given at the American Studies Institute, Seoul
National University. December 1, 1995.
“A
message by a Flying Dutchman from the other side of Rainbow” A special
lecture given to the Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University.
December 6, 1995. Moderated by Professor Jay-Ryon
Shin.
“Comparative
Linguistics of Japanese and Korean: Challenges and Prospects. A Special Lecture
at Professor Horie’s Linguistics Class at the
School of International Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. December 18,
1995. Moderator: Dr. Kaoru Horie.
“Kakarimusubi Phenomenon in Korean?---A Comparative Study of
Relational Particles in Japanese and Korean,” A special talk at the
School of Intercultural Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. December 18,
1995. Moderator: Dr. Kaoru Horie.
“A
15th-century linguistic model and Korean Hangul: An alphabet system that makes
sounds almost visible.” A special lecture given at East Asian Colloquium,
Washington University, Saint Louis. October 10, 1997. Moderator: Professor
Marvin Marcus.
“Kono tikakute tooki
Nihongo to Kankokugo --- Hikaku kenkyuu no atarasii ugoki to sono tenboo.” (A new
direction in comparative-historical linguistics of Japanese and Korean.) The
Graduate School of Intercultural Studies. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
December 7, 1998. . Moderator: Professor Kaoru Horie.
“Man’yoo siku no <setumokusi> no sinkaisyaku to sono rekisi-hikaku gengogakuteki igi ni tuite” (An alternative
analysis of <setumokusi> in Man’yoo-shuu
and its comparative-historical linguistic implications.) The Graduate School of
Intercultural Studies. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. December 7, 1998.
Moderator: Professor Kaoru Horie.
“What
can Korean adnominal construction tell us about the zero relative clause marker
and the no-nominalizer in Modern Japanese?”
Paper presented at a Typology Panel, of the 12th International Conference on
Korean Linguistics. Prague, Czech Republic. July 15, 2000. Moderator: Professor
Um of London University.
"The
so-called Special Particles in Japanese and Korean." Invited paper
presented at Cognitive-Functional Linguistics in an East Asian Context. Tohoku
University, Sendai. August 18, 2000.
“Ambiguous
ONLY in Korean.” An invited paper for a Focus/Topic Panel of the 13th
International Conference on Korean Linguistics. Oslo, Norway. July 8, 2002.Moderator: Professor Jong-Bok
Kim.
“Functional
specialization of exclusion particles: Korean man/ppun
and Japanese dake/bakari.” Invited
lecture at a monthly workshop of Kansai Lexical Project Group at Kobe
University, Kobe, Japan. Juy 27, 2002. Moderator:
Professor Taro Kageyama.
“Passive
and Inchoative: The notion of (Un)accusativity in Japanese
Honorific System.” Invited lecture at a Linguistic Seminar), Kwasei Gakuin University. October
17, 2002. Moderator: Professor Taro Kagayama.
“A
Prolegomena to Principles in the Honorific System of Japanese: A Queen Bee
Model.” Invited lecture at Exchange Student Center, Nagoya University.
October 21, 2002. Moderator: Professor Yutaka Ohno.
“Grammaticalization of Addressee Honorifics in Korean and Japanese,” Lecture for The Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program in Humanities: Open Lecture Series on Language, Brian and Cognition. October 4, 2006. Moderator: Professor Kaoru Horie.
“Revisiting the Notion of <Honorifics> in Brown & Levinson (1987[1978]) theory of Universal Politeness.” Lecture for The Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program in Humanities: Open Lecture Series on Language, Brian and Cognition. October 4, 2006. Moderator: Professor Kaoru Horie
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