Heejeong Ko, Ph.D.
Department
of Linguistics
Seoul National University
San 56-1, Sinlim-dong
Gwanak-Gu, Seoul
South Korea, zip: 151-748
e-mail: heejeong@alum.mit.edu
Education
Ph.D. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy,
MIT (2005) [Specialization:
Syntax, Psycholinguistics]
M.A. Department of English Langue
Education, Seoul National University (2000) [Specialization: Linguistic
Theory]
B.A. Department of English
Language Education, Seoul National University, summa cum laude
(1998)
Research Interest: Syntax, Second Language Acquisition, and
Neurolinguistics
Current research topics:
- Locality in Movement,
Syntactic Agreement, and Linearization at the Interfaces:
- The Syntax and Semantics of Q-Float (various
types of numerals and quantifiers) and Structure of DP
- Possessor Raising Constructions, Secondary
Predicates, and Phrase Structure
- Formal Properties of Scrambling and Constraints
on String Vacuous Movement
- The Syntax, Semantics, and Acquisition
of Reason Adverbs, and Fine structure of CP
- Case Mismatch and Concord in Multiple Case
Marking Constructions.
- Secondary Predication in East Asian Languages
- Processing of floating quantifiers: Experiment studies
with Eunjeong Oh
-
The Semantics of Articles in L2-English (in collaboration with
Tania Ionin, Alex Preovic, and Ken Wexler)
- Specificity, Partitivity and Definitentess
in UG
- The role of UG in L2-English by L1-Korean,
Russian, and Serbo-Croatian speakers
- The role of L1-transfer and acquisition of demonstratives in
L2A
- Other works in progress
- postverbal arguments in verb final languages
- serial verb constructions in Korean
- NP-ellipsis in East Asian Languages
- NP-split phenomena and existential constructions in Russian
(in collaboration with Hakyung Jung)
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