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Jungu Kang

linguist | photo hobbyist

Syntax / Phonology
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)

About

I am currently a PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).

I am interested in investigating the mapping between phonology and syntax; being able to find a link between the two is what I believe would be the concrete evidence supporting the existence of a more abstract system of human language that is shared amongst people.


Fields and subjects of interest

  • Syntax
  • Phonology
  • Fieldworks
  • DOMs and PNIs
  • Tamang VP Ellipsis
  • Korean NPI licensing
  • Korean wh-question and prosody
not the most accurate representation of me :D

Works

A list of papers, theses, presentations, and proceedings...

Papers

2023.

Prosodic licensing in Korean wh-questions: De-phrasing and pitch reduction (with Heeryun Chung)

Linguistic Research. 21: 607-646.

2022.

The Syntax and Prosody of DOM and PNI in Mongolian.
(with Michael Barrie)

Studies in Generative Grammar. 32(3): 405-424.

Theses

2023.

Reduced nominal structure in Uzbek and Mongolian.

Seoul, Republic of Korea: Sogang University thesis.

Proceedings

2023.

Criteria for wh-element prosody in Korean interrogatives.
(with Heeryun Chung)

ICU Working Papers in Linguistics (ICUWPL), 18(2022. 3):81-87.

2022.

VP ellipsis in Eastern Tamang. (with Michael Barrie)

Proceedings of Korean Generative Grammar Circle 2022 Spring Joint Meeting, Junbuk National University, Jinju, South Korea, May 19 : 64-75.

2021.

Prosody and nominal structure in Uzbek.

ICU Working Papers in Linguistics (ICUWPL), 18(2022.3): 81-87.

2020.

Prosody and Bare Nouns in Mongolian.
(with Michael Barrie)

Proceedings of the 22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 22): 38-47.

Presentations

2024.

NPI Licensing in the Semi-Transparent Area.
(with Dahoon Kim and Heesun Yeom)

32nd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (CONSOLE 32), London UK, January 17, 2024.

2023.

NEG Raising and NPI Licensing in Korean.
(with Dahoon Kim and Heesun Yeom)

17th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 17), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 27, 2023.

Null arguments and verb movement in Tamang.
(with Michael Barrie and Kyeonghwan Kwon)

The 13th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL13), Taipei, Taiwan, May 14, 2023.

Criteria for Forming an AP boundary in Korean: Focusing on WH-elements.

Sogang-Sanata Dharma Joint Conference, Yogyakarta, lndonesia, Feb 6, 2023.

2022.

The correlation between word order of wh-elements and tonal contour.
(with Heeryun Chung)

Asian Junior Linguistics 7(AJL7), lnternational Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 10-12, 2022.

VP Ellipsis in Tamang. (with Michael Barrie)

42th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nov 26-27, 2022.

2021.

Prosody and bare nouns in Mongolian.
(with Michael Barrie)

Linguistic Society of America 2021 (LSA2021), Jan 7-10, 2021. virtual conference.

Posters

2024.

NPI Licensing in the Semi-Transparent Area.
(with Heesun Yeom and Dahoon Kim)

LSA 2024 Annual Meeting, New York City USA, January 6, 2024.

2023.

Prosodic evidence for reduced nominals in Uzbek.

17th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 17), Ulaanbaatar Mongolia, September 27 2023.

2021.

Prosodic spell out of nominals in Mongolian.
(with Michael Barrie)

Canadian Linguistics Association 2021 (CLA 2021), June 4-7, virtual conference.

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