Ph.D. in linguistics (filed 2010, conferred 2011) Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Theoretical Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and their Interfaces.
Experimental Linguistics (Sentence Processing, Prosody, Statistical Analysis)
Second language acquisition, TESOL (certificate with distinction)
argument-adjunct asymmetry, scrambling, topic/focus and information structure, case, negative concord, specificity/definiteness, expletive/evaluative negation, mood and modality, expressivity, politeness, metalinguistic comparatives, NPIs, scope of negation, and rhetorical force. Comparative study of East Asian and Indo-European languages.
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Humboldt Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt foundation
Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany. 2012.3.-(2014.3.)
Lecturer, University of Chicago
Collegiate division of Humanities. 2011.9.-12.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Department of Linguistics. 2011.1.-6.
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Teaching (recent):
1. Instructor, Language and the Human
Humanities Core, collegiate division, University of Chicago. Autumn/2011.
2. Instructor, Syntax II
Department of Linguistics, Cornell University. Spring/2011.
3. Instructor, Topics in Syntactic Theories and Interface Issues (graduate seminar)
Department of Linguistics, Cornell University. Spring/2011.
4. Instructor, Introduction to TESOL
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Winter/2011 (arranged but cancelled due to the appointment at Cornell above).
5. Guest Lecturer, Syntax I, “Case System in Languages: Ergativity Split and Case Stacking phenomena”
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. 11/8/2007.
6. Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Linguistics III (Socio-Linguistics)
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Spring/2009.
7. Teaching Assistant, Syntax I
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Fall/2007.
8. Teaching Assistant, Syntax I.
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Fall/2006.
9. Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Korean Language
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. 2006-2007.
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‘Not’ in the Mood: the Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Evaluative Negation.
Committee: Prof. Anastasia Giannakidou, Prof. Jason Merchant (co-chairs), Prof. Chris Kennedy, Prof. Marcel den Dikken (external, CUNY) Nov 2010. University of Chicago. [ pdf ]
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1. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics
2010(to appear). Co-edited with Aikaterini Chatzopoulos and Alexandra Ioannidou.
2. CLS 43. Vol 1-Vol 2.
2007. Papers from the 43th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 1. The Main Session: Gradience In Grammar, Vol. 2. The Parasession: Cross-linguistic variation in semantics / The Syntax of Wh-structures / Gaps, exceptions and paradigm defectiveness. Malcolm Elliott, James Kirby, Osamu Sawada, Eleni Staraki, Suwon Yoon eds.
3. SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics. Vol. 2.
2003. Chung-gon Cho, Hae-sun Cho, Shi-na Lee, Tae-sook Park, Jung-ah Shin, Suwon Yoon eds. Seoul National Univ.
Toward a Unified Analysis of Evaluative Negation
In preparation. (invited to publish)
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JOURNAL ARTICLES:
1. The subjective mode of comparison: metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean
2011 (available on journal website). With Anastasia Giannakidou. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 29.3: 621-655.
2. A Structural Asymmetry in Intervention Effects
2011 (available on journal website). Lingua 121: 942-962.
3. Rhetorical Comparatives: polarity items, expletive negation, and subjunctive mood
2011(available on journal website). Journal of Pragmatics 43: 2012-2033.
4. Parametric Variation in Subordinate Expletive Negation: Japanese/Korean vs. Others
To appear (2012). Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
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Current Work in progress:
Ellipsis in Nominal Conditional in Japanese and Korean
In preparation. With Masaya Yoshida.
Embedded Root-Clause Phenomena: ERCP in Korean vs. V2 in German
Manuscript Sept. 2011. In preparation for submission.
Referential vagueness and negative polarity
Manuscript Oct. 2011. In preparation for submission. With Anastasia Giannakidou and Joseph Quer.
Predictive processing of Relative Clauses
In preparation. With Masaya Yoshida.
Online sentence processing of conditionals and longer dependency formation
In preparation. With Masaya Yoshida.
On the distribution of NPIs in clausal comparatives: evidence from Greek, Dutch, and Korean
In preparation. With Anastasia Giannakidou and Marcel den Dikken.
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1. On Embedded Root Phenomena: ERP in Korean versus V2 in Germanic languages.
To appear. Proceedings of NELS 42. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA.
2. On the distribution of NPIs in clausal comparatives.
To appear. With Anastasia Giannakidou and Marcel den Dikken. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 21. ed. by Seungho Nam, Jongho Jun, and Heejeong Ko. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
3. Referential vagueness and negative polarity: evidence from Greek and Korean.
2011(to appear). With Anastasia Giannakidou, Proceedings of the 47th Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago.
4. An experimental approach to the interpretation of wh-phrases: processing and Phonology-syntax interface.
2010. Interfaces in Linguistics: New Research Perspectives. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 31, ed. by Raffaella Folli and Christiane Ulbrich, Oxford University Press. Oxford. U.K.
5. Expletive Negation in Japanese and Korean
2010, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol 18. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
6. No NPI licensing in clausal comparatives
2010(to appear). With Anastasia Giannakidou, Proceedings of the 46th Chicago Linguistic Society. ed. by Timothy Grinsell, Adam Baker, Julia Thomas, Rebekah Baglini, Jon Keane. University of Chicago.
7. Expressivity of Non-truthconditional Negation
2009. (handout) The 32nd GLOW Colloquium: semantics workshop, "Modes of Composition”. April 15 - 18, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France.
8. Metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean: attitude semantics, expressive meaning, and NPI licensing.
2009, With Anastasia Giannakidou, The 13th Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 13). University of Stuttgart, Germany. available at: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/linguistik/sfb732/index.php?article_id=110
9. Mood in Abstract Complementizer: Altaic vs. non-Altaic languages.
2009, Proceedings of the fifth Workshop on Altaic and Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5), Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
10. Syntax and Semantics of Negation
2008, Congress Book from the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18), John Benjamins Publishers .
11. Comparative and Negation: three types of comparatives in Greek and Korean
2008, With Anastasia Giannakidou, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 6).The Korean Society for Cognitive Science. Seoul: Sigma Press.
12. How to Tell the Scope of Negation
2008, Proceedings of the Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
13. Negative Concord in Korean and Japanese
2008, The University of Chicago Working Papers, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
14. From Non-Specificity to Polarity
2008, Proceedings of the Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington, Washington, USA.
15. The Landscape of metalinguistic comparatives
2008, With Anastasia Giannakidou, Proceedings of the 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Hankook Publishing, Seoul: Korea.
16. Noone vs. Anyone: a compositional analysis of indefinites
2008, Proceedings of the Workshop in General Linguistics Vol 8, UW-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
17. Two Types of Negative Indefinite in Korean
2008, Inquires into Korean Linguistics III, pp. 179-192, ed. by J. Whitman, P. Lee, C. Suh, S. Cho, Y. Jung, J. Chung, J. Han, Hankook Publishing Co.
18. An Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Wh-questions
2007, The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) Vol 14.1. University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.
19. Reanalysis of Wh-phrase Dichotomy
2007, Proceedings of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, ed. by Doo-Won Lee, pp. 299-312, Hankook Publishing, Seoul, Korea.
20. Scrambling as a Disambiguation Strategy: On Wh-phrase Scrambling in Korean and Japanese
2005, Ellipsis in minimalism: Proceedings of the 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, ed. by Kiyong Choi and Changguk Yim, pp. 33-44, Hankook Publishing. Seoul, Korea.
21. Licensing Constraint of Negative Polarity Items in English.
2003, SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics Vol. 2, ed. by Chung-gon Cho, Hae-sun Cho, Shi-na Lee, Jung-ah Shin, Suwon Yoon. pp. 108-132, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
The Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in English: a constraint based approach in Minimal Recursion Semantics
2003, Master's Thesis, Seoul National University.
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Work in Preparation:
1. From Specificity To Negative Polarity,
March 2009. In prep.
2. Sentential Mood Reflected on Prosody and Gesture.
In prep.
3. Narrow and Wide Scope Negation in Korean
In prep.
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contact information
Email:suwon@uchicago.edu
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Suwon Yoon
University of Chicago
Department of Linguistics
1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
USA