Heejeong Ko, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Seoul National
University
1 Gwanak-gu Gwanak-ro
Seoul
South Korea, zip: 08826
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, Language Acquisition,
and Psycholinguistics
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
- The Syntax and Semantics in L2 Acquisition
- 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
- Acquisition of Multiple Case Marking Constructions by L2-learners
- Acquisition of Resultative Constructions by L2-learners
- Research Topics in Syntax
- postverbal arguments in verb final languages
- serial verb constructions in Korean
- NP-ellipsis in East Asian Languages
- NP-split phenomena in scrambling languages
- Right-Dislocation Constructions: their syntax, semantics, and typology
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