The Academy of Korean Studies Laboratory Program for Korean Studies
Seoul National University Conference
Korean at the Nexus of Northeast Asian Linguistic Area
October 26-27, 2018
Seoul National University
October 26, Friday
Sinyang Humanities Hall 302
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
Sungdai Cho (SUNY-Binghamton)
9:15-10:15 AM John Whitman (Cornell University)
Korean at the Nexus of Northeast Asian Linguistic Area
10:15-11:00 AM Andrej Malchukov (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
On Some Syntactic Isoglosses between Tungusic, Korean and Japanese
11:00-11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 PM Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki)
Amuric – the Forgotten Protohistorical Northern Neighbour of Korean
12:00-12:45 PM Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki)
Morphosyntactic Transformation of Nivkh in the Context of the Amur Linguistic Area
12:45-2:00 PM Lunch, Jahayeon, SNU
2:00-2:45 PM Jinho Park (Seoul National University)
Morphological Complexity in North-East Asian Languages
2:45-3:30 PM Seongha Rhee (Hankook University of Foreign Studies)
Grammaticalization in Korean
3:30-3:45 PM Coffee Break
3:45-4:30 PM SeungJae Lee (Seoul National University)
Phonological Oppositions in Affricate Consonants of Early Middle Chinese
4:30-5:15 PM Zev Handel (University of Washington)
Reconstructing Early Middle Chinese Sibilant Consonants: Implications for Old
Korean Phonological Oppositions
6:00 PM Dinner, Dure Midam
October 27, Saturday
Sinyang Humanities Hall 302
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
John Whitman (Cornell University)
9:15-10:00 AM James Hye Suk Yoon (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Lexical and Syntactic Nominalizations in Korean
10:00-10:45 AM Heejeong Ko (Seoul National University)
Right-dislocation in Korean
10:45-11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 AM Yutaka Sato (International Christian University)
A Copula Functioning as a Light Verb in Korean
11:45-12:30 PM Seunghun Lee (International Christian University)
Phonetics of /h/ Following Plosives in Two Korean Dialects: Seoul and Gwangju
12:30-2:00 PM Lunch, Sinyang Humanities Hall 302
2:00-2:45 PM Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University)
On-line Evidence of Island effects in the Korean Relative Clause
2:45-3:30 PM Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS University of London)
Diaspora Varieties of Korean: Morpho-syntactic Characteristics of Korean in
Central Asia and Yanbian
3:30-3:45 PM Coffee Break
3:45-4:30 PM Ho-min Sohn (University of Hawaii)
Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Korean Grammar
4:30-5:15 PM William O’Grady (University of Hawaii)
Issues in the Study of Jejueo
6:00 PM Dinner, Lily Room, Hoam Faculty House