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In this AKS (Academy of Korean Studies, AKS-2022-LAB-2230005) & SUNY at Binghamton (PI, Sungdai Cho)-sponsored workshop, we will showcase research that address currently debated issues in the morphology, syntax, and semantics-pragmatics of nominals and nominalizations in Korean and other languages. The workshop will feature both invited speakers and UIUC linguists addressing the following, non-exclusive, list of topics in Korean and other languages, from a diversity of theoretical perspectives as well as experimental and acquisitional research.

Nominals and noun phrases

  • Type and hierarchy of nominal functional projections
  • Plural-marking and connection to the classifier system
  • The grammar of count/mass distinction
  • Pronouns, anaphors and impostors
  • Morphosyntax of nominals/noun phrases
  • Acquisition and processing of nominals and nominal dependencies (agreement, concord, etc.)
  • Variation and change

Nominalizations

  • Types and functions of nominalizations
  • Mixed nominalizations and analyses
  • Formal vs. functional-cognitive approaches; derivational vs. mono-stratal approaches
  • Polysemy and analyses
  • Acquisition and processing
  • Grammaticalization and diachronic developments

Contacts:

  • Chongwon Park (cpark2@d.umn.edu)
  • Chae Eun Lee (chaeeun4@illinois.edu)
  • Isela Silvera (isilve2@illinois.edu)
  • James Yoon (jyoon@illinois.edu)