Contact Information
Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Office: 4072B Foreign Languages Bldg.
Research Interests
Syntax
Morphology
Second Language Acquisition
Korean and Japanese linguistics
Education
1989 PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1980 BA in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University
Courses Taught
LING 301: Elements of Syntax
LING 304: Elements of Morphology
LING 501: Syntax I
LING 541: Syntax II
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Linguistics
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
External Links
Recent Publications
Yoon, J., & Park, C. (2026). Scenarios and Schemas in Tandem: Explaining Polysemy in English -er and Korean -i. Studia Linguistica, 80(2), Article e70017. https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.70017
Yoon, J. H. S. (2022). Lexical Nominalizations in Korean. In The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics (pp. 429-457). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108292351.016
Yoon, J. H. S. (2022). Overview of Chapters on Syntax. In The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics (pp. 63-81). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108292351.004
Kang, H.-S., & Yoon, J. H. S. (2021). Heritage Languages in Japan and Korea. In S. Montrul, & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (pp. 111-128). (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766340.007
Yoon, J. H. S., & Kim, E. H. (2020). Experimental evidence supporting the overlapping distribution of core and exempt anaphors: Re-examination of long-distance bound caki-casin in Korean. Linguistics, 58(6), 1775-1806. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0233