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Contact Information

University of Illinois
Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Office: 4072B Foreign Languages Bldg.

Professor

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

Recent Publications

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

Kim, J. H., Lee, Y. H., & Yoon, J. H. S. (2019). Subjecthood and grammatical relations in Korean: An experimental study with honorific agreement and plural copying. 206-213. Paper presented at 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2017, Cebu City, Philippines.

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