JUNGMIN KANG, Ph.D

Lecturer, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 2014

Topic Areas: Second Language Acquisition, Korean Syntax, Theoretical Syntax, Formal Semantics, Syntax-Semantics Interface

Office: 1043 Humanities 

Email: jungmin.kang.1@stonybrook.edu

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Biography

Jungmin Kang is a lecturer in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University where she teaches various levels of Korean language courses. She received her Ph.D. in 2014 with a dissertation titled “On the lack of TP and its consequences: Evidence from Korean”. Her research interests are second language acquisition, Korean syntax, theoretical syntax, formal semantics, and syntax-semantics interface.

 

Courses Taught

Advanced Korean III

Advanced Korean I 

Intermediate Korean I

Elementary Korean II

Elementary Korean I

Semantics and Pragmatics

Introduction to Semantics

Syntactic Analysis

Language and Environment

Introduction to Linguistics

Language and Mind

 

Publication

2018    Case and Number Suppletion in Pronouns. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT) 37, 1029-1101. [with  P.W. Smith, B. Moskal, T. Xu and J.   Bobaljik]

2016    Fragment Functional Answers. In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory  (SALT26), 1099-1118. [with Y. Sharvit]

2015Pronominal Suppletion: Case and Number. In Proceedings of the 45th North East Linguistic Society (NELS45), ed. Huy Bui and Deniz Özyıldız, Vol.3: 69-78. [with P. W. Smith, B. Moskal, T. Xu and J. Bobaljik]

2014On two kinds of negative concord items in Korean. In Proceedings of  the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL31), ed. Robert E. Santana-LaBarge, 466-473. [with L. Tieu)]

2013    Temporal Interpretation in the Absence of TP. Language and Information Society 20:161-202.

2013    On the Unavailability of Successive-cyclic Movement via SpecCP in Korean. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX, eds. Nobu Goto, Koichi Otaki, Atsushi Sato, and Kensuke Takita.

2012Why Short-form Functional Reading Answers are Not Possible in Multiple Wh-questions. In Proceedings of the 35th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, ed. Josef Fruehwald.