SUWON YOON

Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago

Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL AREAS


BOOKS (Edited)

1. CLS 43
Papers from the 43th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 1. The Main Session: Gradience In Grammar. Malcolm Elliott, James Kirby, Osamu Sawada, Eleni Staraki, Suwon Yoon eds.    

2. CLS 43
Papers from the 43th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 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.
Chung-gon Cho, Hae-sun Cho, Shi-na Lee, Tae-sook Park, Jung-ah Shin, Suwon Yoon eds. Seoul National Univ.    


Refereed Book Chapters and papers (Authored):

1. Expressivity of Non-truthconditional Negation
2009. The 32nd GLOW Colloquium: semantics workshop, "Modes of Composition”. April 15 - 18, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France.     [ pdf ]

2. Metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean: attitude semantics, expressive meaning, and NPI licensing.
(to appear), With Anastasia Giannakidou, The 13th Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 13). University of Stuttgart, Germany.     [ pdf ]

3. An Experimental Approach to Intervention Effect Asymmetry: Processing and Phonology-Syntax interface.
(to appear), On Linguistic Interfaces, Oxford University Press. Oxford. U.K.     [ pdf ]

4. Expletive Negation in Japanese and Korean
(to appear), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol 18. Stanford: CSLI Publications.     [ pdf ]

5. Syntax and Semantics of Negation
(to appear), Congress Book from the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18), John Benjamins Publishing company.     [ pdf ]

6. Mood in Abstract Complementizer: Altaic vs. non-Altaic languages.
(to appear), Proceedings of the fifth Workshop on Altaic and Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5), Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.     [ pdf ]

7. Comparative and Negation: three types of comparatives in Greek and Korean
With Anastasia Giannakidou, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 6).The Korean Society for Cognitive Science. Seoul: Sigma Press.     [ pdf ]

8. How to Tell the Scope of Negation
Proceedings of the Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA     [ pdf ]

9. Negative Concord in Korean and Japanese
The University of Chicago Working Papers, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA     [ pdf ]

10. From Non-Specificity to Polarity
Proceedings of the Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington, Washington, USA.     [ pdf ]

11. The Landscape of metalinguistic comparatives
With Anastasia Giannakidou, Proceedings of the 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Hankook Publishing, Seoul: Korea.     [ pdf ]

12. Noone vs. Anyone: a compositional analysis of indefinites
Proceedings of the Workshop in General Linguistics Vol 8, UW-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.     [ pdf ]

13. Two Types of Negative Indefinite in Korean
Proceedings of the 16th International Circle of Korean Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.     [ pdf ]

14. An Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Wh-questions
The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) Vol 14.1. University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.     [ pdf ]

15. Reanalysis of Wh-phrase Dichotomy
Proceedings of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, ed. by Doo-Won Lee, pp. 299-312, Hankook Publishing, Seoul, Korea.     [ pdf ]

16. Scrambling as a Disambiguation Strategy: On Wh-phrase Scrambling in Korean and Japanese
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.     [ pdf ]

17. Licensing Constraint of Negative Polarity Items in English.
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.     [ pdf ]

others:

The Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in English: a constraint based approach in Minimal Recursion Semantics
Master's Thesis, Seoul National University.     [ hwp ]


Work under Submission and in Preparation

1. An Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Intervention Effects: a novel argument for LF constraints.
March 2008.    

2. Metalinguistic functions and the Expressive Dimension in Greek and Korean: attitude semantics, expressive meaning and NPI licensing.
With Anastasia Giannakidou. October 2008.    

3. Rhetorical Comparatives.
October 2008.    

4. From Specificity To Negative Polarity,
March 2009.    

5. A Unified Approach to Expletive Negation.
In prep.    

6. Sentential Mood Reflected on Prosody and Gesture.
With Howard Nusbaum, In prep.    

7. Narrow and Wide Scope Negation in Korean
In prep.    


contact information

Email:
suwon@uchicago.edu

Regular Mail:
Suwon Yoon
University of Chicago
Department of Linguistics
1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
USA