Curriculum Vitae
Heejeong Ko
Address. Department of Linguistics
Seoul National University
1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul
South Korea, zip: 08826
Phone. +82-2-880-6164 (office), +82-10-4211-8917 (home)
E-mail. [email protected]
Web. http://alum.mit.edu/www/heejeong
Education
Ph. D. (2005) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Linguistics)
Thesis: Syntactic Edges and Linearization
Committee: Prof. David Pesetsky (Chair), Prof. Daniel Fox, Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa,
Prof. Norvin Richards
M.A. (2000) Seoul National University (Linguistic Theory, English Language Education)
Thesis: Interactive Attract Theory in A-movement [written in Korean]
Committee chair: Prof. Hyun-Kwon Yang
B.A. (1998) Seoul National University, summa cum laude (English Language Education)
Professional positions held
2017.3 - present Full Professor, Seoul National University [with tenure]
2012.3 - 2017.2 Associate Professor, Seoul National University [tenure-track]
2007.2 - 2012.2 Assistant Professor, Seoul National University [tenure-track]
2005.8 - 2006.12 Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook [tenure-track]
2012.2-2013.1 Visiting Research Scholar, UCLA [on the sabbatical leave]
Professional Membership
2008-present Editorial Board of Journal, Syntax [John Wiley & Sons Ltd.]
2013-present Editorial Board of Journal, Linguistic Variation [John Benjamins]
2011-present Editorial Board of Journal, Korean Linguistics [John Benjamins]
2013-present Editorial Board of Journal, Language Research [SNU]
2008-2013 Editorial Board of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory [Springer]
2011-present Associate Editor, Studies in Generative Grammar
Research Interests
Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, East Asian Linguistics,
Psycholinguistics (Second Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics)
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Publications
Monograph:
Ko, Heejeong (2014). Edges in Syntax: Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization. Oxford: Oxford
University Press [Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Series 50].
Refereed Journal Articles:
Kim, Sujeong, Heejeong Ko, and Hyun-Kwon Yang. submitted. Telicity and mode of Merge in
L2 acquisition of resultatives. [under review, Language Acquisition]
Ko, Heejeong (2018). Development and Prospects of Syntactic Theories in Generative Grammar
[written in Korean]. Korean Linguistics 81: 1-33.
Ko, Heejeong (2016). Gapless right-dislocation: The role of overt correlates. Language Research
52(1): 1-30.
Ko, Heejeong and Daeyoung Sohn (2015). Decomposing complex serialization: the role of v.
Korean Linguistics 17: 78-125 [published by John Benjamins in March, 2016].
Ko, Heejeong (2015). On the typology of small clauses: null subject and mode of merge in
resultatives. Studies in Generative Grammar 25 (2): 347-375.
Ko, Heejeong (2015). Two ways to the right: a hybrid approach to right-dislocation in Korean.
Language Research 51: 3-40
Ko, Heejeong (2014). Remarks on right dislocation construction in Korean: challenges to bi-
clausal analyses. Language Research 50 (2): 275-310.
Ko, Heejeong and Satbyeol Seo. (2012). NP-ellipsis revisited: the role of D feature. Studies in
Generative Grammar 22(4): 677-702.
Ko, Heejeong and Eunjeong Oh. (2012). A hybrid approach to floating quantifiers: some
experimental evidence. Linguistic Research 29(1): 1-40.
Ionin, Tania, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, Heejeong Ko and Ken Wexler (2012). That’s not so
different from the: definite and demonstrative expressions in second language
acquisition. Second Language Research 28: 69-101.
Ko, Heejeong. (2011). Predication and Edge Effects. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
29: 725-778.
Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler. (2010). The role of presuppositionality in the
second language acquisition of English articles. Linguistic Inquiry 41(2): 213-254.
Ko, Heejeong (2009). Multiple Case Sharing and Syntactic Structure. Studies in Generative
Grammar 19(4): 423-451.
Ko, Heejeong. (2008). A numeral classifier on the edge: evidence from Japanese, Journal of the
Linguistic Society of Korea [Eoneohag] 51: 3-28.
Ko, Heejeong. (2007). Rigid Edges in Syntax: evidence from vP and VP, Studies in Generative
Grammar 17(4): 435-456
Ko, Heejeong. (2007). Asymmetries in scrambling and cyclic linearization, Linguistic Inquiry 38:
49-83
Ko, Heejeong. (2006). Base-output correspondence in Korean nominal inflection, Journal of East
Asian Linguistics 15(3): 195-243
Ko, Heejeong. (2005). Syntax of why-in-situ: merge into [Spec,CP] in the overt syntax, Natural
Language & Linguistic Theory 23 (4): 867-916.
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Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2004). Article semantics in L2-acquisition: the role
of specificity, Language Acquisition 12 (1): 3-69.
Book Chapters: Ko, Heejeong (to appear). Right-dislocation in Korean. In Cambridge Handbook of Korean
Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
Ko, Heejeong (2018). Scrambling in Korean Syntax. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of
Linguistics. ed. by Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ko, Heejeong (2017). Right dislocation: copies vs. fragments. In A Pesky set: A festschrift for
David Pesetsky. MIT working papers in linguistics, Department of Linguistics and
Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA, pp.253-262.
Ko, Heejeong (2015). Postverbal Adjuncts in Korean: Unlabeled but Concatenated. In
Proceedings of SICOGG 17.
Ko, Heejeong (2015). Variations in Predicate Fronting: The Role of Anti-locality and Cyclic
Linearization. In WCCFL 32 Proceedings, pp. 258-267.
Ko, Heejeong (2014). Psycholinguistics. On-line encyclopedia of www. naver.com.
Kang, Chorong and Heejeong Ko (2011). Dynamicity in Sub-extraction phenomena. In SICOGG
proceedings, pp. 221-237.
Ko, Heejeong and Eunjeong Oh (2011). A Hybrid Approach to Floating Quantifiers:
Experimental Evidence. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19, ed by Ho-min Sohn,
Sang Lee Cheon, Haruko Minegishi Cook, William O'Grady, and Leon Angelo
Serafim, pp. 171-184, CSLI Publications.
Sohn, Daeyoung and Heejeong Ko (2011). The Role of Merger and Typology of v Heads in
Serialization. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19, ed by Ho-min Sohn, Sang Lee Cheon,
Haruko Minegishi Cook, William O'Grady, and Leon Angelo Serafim, pp. 231-246,
CSLI Publications.
Ionin, Tania, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler (2011). That’s the
meaning: interpretation of definite and demonstrative descriptions in L2-English. In
GALANA 2010 proceedings, pp. 122-138, Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Mykhaylyk, Roksolana and Heejeong Ko (2010). Optional Scrambling is not Random: Evidence
from English-Ukrainian Acquisition, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics series,
ed. Lyn Frazier, Tom Roeper and Ken Wexler, pp. 207-240. Dordrecht: Springer.
Ko, Heejeong (2009). Multiple Case Marking as Case Sharing: Adverbial vs. Adnominal Case,
in NELS 38 Proceedings, volume 1I, pp.15-26.
Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler. (2009). L2-Acquisition of English articles by
Korean speakers, in Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume III Korean, ed.
Chungmin Lee, Greg B. Simpson, and Youngjin Kim, pp. 286-304, Cambridge
University Press.
Ko, Heejeong. (2008). Subject scrambling, in Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Sun-Ah Jun, Peter Sells,
Patricia M. Clancy, Shoichi Iwasaki, Sung-Ock Sohn (eds.), pp. 193-206,
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13. CSLI Publications.
Mykhaylyk, Roksolana and Heejeong Ko (2008). Object Scrambling and Specificity in Bilingual
Ukrainian-English Acquisition, in FASL 16 Proceedings, ed. Andrei Antonenko, John
Bailyn, and Christina Bethin, pp. 297-312, Michigan Slavic Publications.
Mykhaylyk, Roksolana and Heejeong Ko (2008). Acquisition of Object Scrambling by Bilingual
Ukrainian Children: The Role of Specificity, in Roumyana Slabakova, Jason Rothman,
Paula Kempchinsky, and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Generative
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Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007), pp. 140-154,
Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA.
Ko, Heejeong, Alex Perovic, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler (2008). Semantic Universals and
Variation in L2 Article Choice, in Roumyana Slabakova, Jason Rothman, Paula
Kempchinsky, and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Generative
Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007), pp.118-129,
Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA,
Ko, Heejeong. (2008). Object scrambling on the edge: evidence for VP as a Spell-out domain, in
WCCFL 26 Proceedings. [Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics edited by Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie], pp. 340-347, Cascadilla
Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA.
Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2007). The role of semantic features in the
acquisition of English articles by Russian and Korean speakers, in J. M. Liceras et al.
(eds.), The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition, pp. 226-269.
Second Language Research Acquisition Series (Theoretical and Methodological Issues),
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler (2006). Adult L2-learners lack the Maximality
presupposition, too!. in K. U. Deen et al (eds), The Proceedings of the Inaugural
Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition–North America,
Honolulu, HI, pp.171-182, University of Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4.
Ko, Heejeong. (2006). On the structural height of reason wh-adverbials: acquisition and
consequences, in L. Cheng and N. Corver (eds.), Wh-Movement Moving On, pp.319-
349, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Ko, Heejeong. (2005). Constraining scrambling: cyclic linearization and subject movement, in B.
Schmeiser, V. Chand, A. Kelleher, and A. Rodriguez (eds.), Proceedings of West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 23 (WCCFL 23), pp. 500-513, Cascadilla
Press, Somerville, MA, USA.
Ko, Heejeong. (2004). The height of causal wh-adverbials in in-situ languages and its corollaries,
in R.-H.-Y. Kim (ed.), Proceedings of the 6th Seoul International Conference on
Generative Grammar, pp.151-170, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle.
Ko, Heejeong. (2004). Cyclic linearization and constraints on scrambling: evidence from floating
quantifiers, Proceedings of the 2004 LSK International Conference, pp. 231-240, The
Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK).
Ko, Heejeong. (2004). When in-situ languages diverge: Altaic vs. non-Altaic wh-adjunct
constructions, in A. Csirmaz, Y. Lee, and M. Walter (eds.), Proceedings of Workshop
in Altaic Formal Linguistics 1, pp. 64-78, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2003). Specificity as a grammatical notion:
evidence from L2-English use, in G. Garding and M. Tsujimura (eds.), Proceedings of
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 22 (WCCFL 22), pp. 245-258
Cascadilla Press, Somerville.
Ferreira, Marcelo and Heejeong Ko. (2003). Questions in Buli, in M. Kenstowicz and G.
Akanlig-Pare (eds.) Studies in Buli Grammar, MIT Working Papers on Endangered
and Less Familiar Languages 4, pp. 35-44, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
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Ko, Heejeong. (2001). Aspect shift and durative adverbials, in Y. B. Kim (ed.) Modification and
Complementation, in the Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Conference of the Korean
Society for Language and Information, pp. 97-108, Korea Society of Language and
Information.
Edited book:
Nam, Seungho, Heejeong Ko, and Jongho Jun. (2015). Japanese Korean Linguistics 21. CSLI
Publications. [ISBN-10: 1575866536]
Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Andrew Nevins. (2002). (eds.) The Proceedings of the 2nd
HUMIT Student Conference in Language Research, MIT Working Papers in
Linguistics 43, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge, MA.
Invited Talks
2018 Right-dislocation in Korean: an Overview. Workshop: Korean at the Nexus of Northeast
Asian Linguistic Area. Seoul National University. Oct. 27, 2018.
2018 Changes in syntactic theory and methods in experimental syntax [in Korean]. Busan
University. Aug 23-24, 2018.
2016 Inter-arboreal matters in syntax: the case of right-dislocation, Japanese/Korean
Linguistics 24, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)/Keio
University, Japan, October 14-16, 2016.
2016 Locality and anti-locality in scrambling: evidence from small clause domains. A satellite
workshop, in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 24, National Institute for Japanese Language
and Linguistics (NINJAL), October 17, 2016.
2015 Types of Right-Dislocation in Korean: Copies, Adjuncts, and Fragments in Syntax,
Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 11), York University, June 4-6, 2015.
2013 Variations in Predicate Fronting out of Small Clauses. Seoul International Conference on
Silent Focus in adverbial floating quantification. Workshop on Japanese-Korean
comparative linguistics, Mie University, Japan. 12/7/2013.
2013 Variations in Predicate Fronting: The role of Cyclic Linearization and Anti-locality.
Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. 12/6/2013
2013 Silent Focus in adverbial floating quantification. 11/08/2013. Workshop on Sluicing and
Related Phenomena. Kyunghee University. Korea.
2011 That’s not so different from the. Research Institute of Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National
University, 11/25/2011.
2010 Acquisition of L2-English. Kyunghee University. Invited lecture. 10/27/2010.
2010 Acquisition of L2-English: The Role of Presuppositionality and Demonstrative Effects.
Hanyang University Colloquium Series. 10/28/2010.
2009 Minimalist Syntax. Tutorial. Linguistic Society of Korea, 12/10/2009.
2009 Predication and Edge Effects. Glow in Asia, EFL University, Hyderabad, India, 2/25-
28/2009.
2008 Language in the brain: MEG studies, Konkkuk University, 11/14/2008.
2008 Language Processing: MEG Studies, Seoul National University Hospital, 2/29/2008,
2008 Syntactic Edges and Linearization: Evidence from Scrambling, The International Society
for Chomskyan Studies, Sogang University, 1/15/2008.
2007 Asymmetry in scrambling and Cyclic linearization [Kasell 2007 winter conference]
(Kyungsang University), 12/14/2007.
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2007 Scrambling on the edge, KAIST, August, 2007.
2007 Form vs. Meaning in Visual Word Recognition: An MEG study using Masked Priming,
MEG Center, Seoul National University Hospital, 06/21/2007.
2007 Asymmetry in scrambling and linearization, Language and Information, June 16, 2007.
2007 Object Scrambling on the Edge: Evidence for VP as a Spell-out domain, Dept. of
Linguistics, Seoul National University [colloquium talk], April 23, 2007.
2007 Syntactic Edges and Linearization: Evidence from Scrambling, Generative Grammar
Circle, Dongguk University, April 21, 2007
2007 Semantic Features in UG: Specificity and Partitivity in L2-Article choice, Dept. of
Linguistics, Korea University, April 20, 2007
2006 The Syntax of Wh-Movement, Dept. of Linguistics, SNU, June 2, 2006
2005 Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization, CUNY Supper, The CUNY Graduate Center,
November 29, 2005.
2005 Universal Grammar: theory and practice. New Faculty Symposium, SUNY at Stony Brook.
November 18, 2005.
2005 Semantic features in Universal Grammar: perspectives from L2-English article choice.
Psychology Brownbag Series, Department of Psychology, SUNY at Stony Brook.
October, 2005.
2005 Rigid edges: restrictions on movement out of edge zones. Workshop on SOV Variation,
Syracuse University, April 9-10, 2005.
2005 Asymmetries in scrambling and cyclic linearization. McGill University, March, 2005.
2005 Possessor raising, quantification, and linear order in Korean. Japanese/Korean
Workshop: the COE project & the JSPS project, Kyoto University, Japan, 2005.
2005 The indefinites: parallels between L1 and L2 acquisition of English articles. University of
South Carolina, Columbia, February, 2005.
2005 Semantic features in UG: perspectives from L2-English article choice. SUNY at Stony
Brook, February, 2005
2005 Interlanguage grammar in second language acquisition. Error Analysis Class (instructed
by Prof. Marie Huffman). SUNY at Stony Brook, February, 2005.
2004 Distributing floating quantifiers: two types of quantifiers and cyclic linearization,
Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics 2 (WAFL2), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey,
October, 2004.
Conference Presentations
Kim, Sujeong, Heejeong Ko and Hyun-Kwon Yang. 2017. Telicity and modes of Merge in L2
acquisition of resultatives. GASLA 14 (The 14th Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition Conference), University of Southampton, England, 7-9 April
2017.
Ko, Heejeong. 2017. Sideward merge in Right-dislocation. DP 60 (David Pesetsky 60),
Department of Linguistics, MIT, Feb. 11, 2017.
Ko, Heejeong. 2015. Postverbal Adjuncts in Korean: Unlabeled but Concatenated. SICOGG 17.
Kyunghee University, Aug. 2015.
Ko, Heejeong. 2014. Right Dislocation as Specificational Focus. Workshop on Korean/Japanese
Linguistics at SNU. Oct. 17-18, 2014.
Ko, Heejeong. 2014. Variations in Predicate Fronting: The role of Cyclic Linearization and Anti-
locality. WCCFL 32, USC. March 7-9, 2013.
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Ko, Heejeong. 2013. Silent Focus in adverbial floating quantification. Workshop on Sluicing and
related phenomena. Kyunghee University, Nov. 8, 2013.
Chorong Kang and Heejeong Ko. 2011. Dynamicity in sub-extraction phenomena. NELS 42,
University of Toronto, Nov.11-13. 2011.
Chorong Kang and Heejeong Ko. 2011. Dynamicity in sub-extraction phenomena. Seoul
International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 13). August 16-19, 2011.
[Sogang University]
Ko, Heejeong. 2011. Small clauses as a Spell-out domain. Spring conference of Korea
Generative Grammar Circle. Kyunghee University. 05/14/2011.
Tania Ionin, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. 2011. Production and
comprehension of definite expressions in L2-English. Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition (GASLA 11), University of Washington, Seattle, March 25-27,
2011.
Tania Ionin, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. 2010. That’s the
meaning: interpretation of definite and demonstrative descriptions in L2-English.
GALANA 2010, Toronto, Sep 1-3, 2010.
Ko, Heejeong and Eunjeong Oh. 2009. A hybrid approach to floating quantifiers: experimental
evidence. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19. Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa. Nov. 12-14, 2009.
Daeyoung Sohn and Heejeong Ko. 2009. The role of merger and typology of v heads in
serialization. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19. University of Hawaii, Manoa. Nov. 12-14,
2009.
Ko, Heejeong and Jae Young Choi (2009). Rightward Movement and Output Economy.
SICOGG 11, HUFS, Aug 11-14, 2009.
Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler. 2009. Partitivity and specificity in L2-English
article use: the role of proficiency. GASLA 10. UIUC.
Ko, Heejeong, and Eunjeong Oh. 2008. Support for a hybrid approach to floating quantifiers:
evidence from experimental data. SICOGG 10, Dongguk Univeristy, 7.17-20.
Ko, Heejeong, and Jae Young Choi (2008). Economy in Rightward Movement: Moving into
Inner Edge [poster & alternate talk], WCCFL 27, UCLA, May 16-18, 2008
Ko, Heejeong. (2007). Multiple Case Marking as Case Sharing: Adverbial vs. Adnominal Case
[poster], NELS 38, Ottawa, Canada, October, 2007.
Ko, Heejeong. (2007). Rigid Edges in Syntax: Evidence from VP and vP, SICOGG 9,
Kwangwon University, August 8-11, 2007
Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Heejeong Ko (2007). Object Scrambling and Specificity in Bilingual
Ukrainian/English Acquisition [poster], FASL 16, Stony Brook University, May 4-6,
2007
Ko, Heejeong, Alex Perovic, Tania Ionin, Ken Wexler (2007). Semantic Universals and
Variation in L2 Article Choice. GASLA 9, Univ. of Iowa, May 18-20, 2007.
Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Heejeong Ko (2007). Acquisition of Object Scrambling by Bilingual
Ukrainian Children: The Role of Specificity. GASLA 9, Univ. of Iowa, May 18-20,
2007.
Ko, Heejeong (2007). Object Scrambling on the Edge: Evidence for VP as a Spell-out domain,
WCCFL 26, UC Berkeley. April 27-29, 2007.
Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Heejeong Ko (2007). Object Scrambling in Bilingual
Ukrainian/English Acquisition: The Specificity Effect, Workshop on acquisition of
variable word order, GLOW, Tromsø, April 12-14, 2007.
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Ko, Heejeong. (2006). Object Scrambling on the Edge: Evidence for VP as a Spell-out domain,
University of Cyprus, Cyprus, May 18-20, 2006 [poster presentation]
Ko, Heejeong. (2005). Two types of quantifiers and cyclic linearization. The 11th Harvard ISOKL,
Harvard University.
Ko, Heejeong. (2005). Association via Raising: Inalienable Possession Construction in Korean.
Workshop on Raising and Control, Harvard University/LSA Summer institute.
Ko, Heejeong. (2005). Movement of possessor and consequences of cyclic linearization, the 2005
Annual Meeting of Linguistics Society of America, San Francisco, January, 2005.
Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler. (2004). Adult L2-learners lack the maximality
presupposition, too, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North
America (GALANA), University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, December, 2004.
Ko, Heejeong, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler. (2004). Parallels between L1- and L2-acquisition of
determiners: the role of partitivity, poster, the 29th Boston University Conference on
Language Development (BUCLD 29), Boston University, November, 2004.
Ko, Heejeong. (2004). The height of causal wh-adverbials in in-situ languages and its corollaries,
the 6th Seoul International Conference On Generative Grammar (SICOGG 6),
Hansung University, August, 2004.
Ko, Heejeong, Michael Wagner, Linnaea Stockall, Sid Kouider, and Alec Marantz. (2004).
Visual word form recognition: an MEG study using masked priming, poster, Biomag
2004, Boston, MA, August, 2004.
Ko, Heejeong. (2004). Cyclic linearization and constraints on scrambling: evidence from floating
quantifiers, the 2004 Linguistic Society of Korea International Conference, Yonsei
University, Seoul, Korea, July, 2004.
Ko, Heejeong. (2004). Constraining scrambling: cyclic linearization and subject movement, the
23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 23), UC Davis,
California, April, 2004.
Ko, Heejeong. (2004). Cyclic linearization and asymmetry in scrambling, the 78th Linguistic
Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, January, 2004.
Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2003). A definite pattern of L2-English article use:
the role of specificity, the 28th Boston University Conference on Language
Development (BUCLD 28), Boston University, November, 2003.
Ko, Heejeong. (2003) Asymmetry in scrambling and cyclic spell-out, Approaching Asymmetry at
Interfaces, University of Quebec at Montreal, October, 2003.
Ko, Heejeong. (2003). Why before the subject, and where after the subject in child Korean,
Generative Approach to Language Acquisition (GALA), Utrecht, the Netherlands,
September, 2003.
Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2003). Two sides of the same coin: the with
indefinites and a with definites in L2-English, Generative Approach to Language
Acquisition (GALA), Utrecht, the Netherlands, September, 2003.
Ko, Heejeong. (2003). External-merge of ‘why’ in Korean: support for existence of subject
scrambling, the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Michigan State
University, August, 2003.
Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2003). The semantics of article choice in the L2-
English of Korean speakers, the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference,
Michigan State University, August, 2003.
Ko, Heejeong. (2003). When in-situ languages diverge: Altaic vs. non-Altaic wh-adjunct
constructions, Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 1), MIT, May, 2003.
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Ionin, Tania, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler. (2003). Specificity as a grammatical notion:
evidence from L2-English use, the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics (WCCFL 22), University of California, San Diego, March, 2003.
Ko, Heejeong. (2003). Two ways of licensing ‘why’ in Korean, the 77th Linguistic Society of
America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 2003.
Ko, Heejeong. (2002). On the origin of why-in-situ, Workshop On Wh-Movement, Leiden
University and Utrecht University, the Netherlands, December, 2002.
Ko, Heejeong. (2001). Aspect shift and durative adverbials, the 2001 Annual Conference of the
Korean Society for Language and Information, Taecheon, Korea, June, 2001.
Courses taught and services provided to the students and the home institution, SNU
Syntax (undergraduate): Fall semesters, 2007-2011; 2013-2018 [11 years]
Language and Linguistics (undergraduate): Spring semesters, 2007-2010, 2014-2016 [7 years]
Linguistics seminar (undergraduate): Spring semesters, 2011, 2016 [2 years]
Syntax I (graduate): Fall semesters, 2007-2011, 2013-2015, 2018 [9 years]
Syntax II (graduate): Spring semesters, 2007-2009, 2011, 2014-2015 [6 years]
Seminar in Syntax and Semantics (graduate): Spring semester, 2016, 2017 [2 years]
Methods in Cognitive Sciences (graduate): Fall semester, 2007 [1 year]
Directed Research (graduate): Every semester, 2007-2018 [11 years]
Language-Mind-Behavior (undergraduate, co-teaching): Spring, 2010, 2011, 2014-2016 [5 years]
Academic Honors and Fellowships
2018 Fulbright Fellowship for Visiting Scholar Program (Senior Research)
2017 Research Grant (NRF) [20,000,000 KRW]
Presidential Award for Excellent Research (SNU) [20,000,000 KRW]
2016 Dean’s Award for Excellent Research [College of Humanities]
2013 Research Grant (NRF), NRF-2007-361-A [10,000,000 KRW]
2012 Research Grant at SNU (for sabbatical leave) [20,000,000 KRW]
2011 Nominated for Excellent Researcher at SNU [5,000,000 KRW]
Award for Excellent Research Article (KRF) [7,000,000 KRW]
2009 Research Grant for Humanities (KRF) [7,000,000 KRW]
Nominated for Excellent Teacher Award at SNU [1,000,000 KRW]
2008 Award for Excellent Research Article (KRF) [7,000,000 KRW]
Grant [development of web-based e-class: language and linguistics]
(SNU) [2,000,000 KRW]
2007 Research Grant for Humanities (KRF) [7,000,000 KRW]
Award for Excellent Research Article (KRF) [7,000,000 KRW]
Research Settlement Grant for New Faculty (SNU) [10,000,000 KRW]
Grant [development of web-based e-class] (SNU) [2,000,000 KRW]
2006 FAHSS Individual Grant, Stony Brook University
[2600 USD Summer Research Fund]
2005 Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America
2004 NSF Travel Fellowship, sponsored by University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
2003 Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America
2000-2005 Graduate Fellowship, MIT
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1998-2000 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Seoul National University
1994-1998 University Fellowship, Seoul National University
Academic Reviewer
2002-2015
Journals Linguistic Inquiry: 2007, 2008*2, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 squib, 2016,
2017, 2018 squib
[A&HCI; SSCI] Natural Language & Linguistic Theory: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010*2,
2011, 2013, 2015
Syntax: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018Feb,
Lingua: 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
Journal of East Asian Linguistics: 2006, 2008, 2010
Second Language Research: 2005, 2008
Studia Linguistica: 2005, 2016, 2017
SKY Journal of Finland Linguistics: 2005
Journals Journal of Korean Linguistics
[KCI] Journal of Cognitive Sciences
Language Research
Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea
Studies in Generative Grammar
Language and Linguistics
English Linguistics
Discourse and Cognition
Language and Information
Linguistic Research
Korean Linguistics [국어학]
Abstracts WCCFL, Workshop on argument structure, WAFL, BIDE, TEAL,
ConSole, JKL, ECOL, NELS, GASLA, GLOW in Asia X, SICOGG
proposals NSF (National Science Foundation, USA): 2011, 2013, 2015
NRF (National Research Foundation, Korea): 2008, 2011, 2013, 2017,
2018
Book Chapters Interphase volume (ed. Kleanthes Grohmann) (2008), MITWPL 43 (2002),
Cambridge Handbook of Korean language and linguistics (to appear).
Academic Committee
2018 MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Lawton Hogan (SNU, Linguistics)
(thesis title: theta-sensitive dependent case assignment in Korean multiple
case constructions)
MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Eunsun Jou (SNU, Linguistics)
(thesis title: embedded topicalization in Korean factive complement
clauses: an experimental approach)
2017 Ph.D thesis committee [Supervisor] for Satbyeol Seo (SNU, Linguistics)
(thesis title: The syntax of jussives: speaker and hearer at the syntax-
discourse interface, SNU, Linguistics)
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Ph.D thesis committee for Hyo-Jin Kim (SNU, Linguistics)
2016 Ph.D thesis committee for Sujeong Kim (SUN, English Education)
2015 MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Gayoung Cha (SNU, linguistics)
Ph.D thesis committee for Yu-mi Jo (SNU, linguistics)
2014 Ph.D thesis committee for Semoon Hoe (SNU, linguistics)
Ph.D thesis committee for Seyhee Hwang (SNU, English Education)
MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Daniel Edmiston (SNU, linguistics)
MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Woojin Chung (SNU, linguistics)
MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Narae Son (SNU, linguistics)
MA thesis committee for Davood K. (SNU, linguistics)
2012 MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Ryu Huan (SNU, Linguistics)
2011 MA thesis committee [Supervisor] for Chorong Kang (SNU, linguistics)
MA thesis committee for Songhee Kim (SNU, linguistics)
MA thesis committee for Bora Nam (SNU, English Education)
2010 MA thesis committee for Sujeon Yoon (SNU, linguistics)
2009 MA Thesis Committee [Supervisor] for Satbyeol Seo (SNU, linguistics)
MA Thesis Committee for Sojeong Yoon (SNU, Cognitive Sciences)
MA Thesis Committee for Soyoung Choi (SNU, Psychology)
2008 MA Thesis Committee [Supervisor] for Daeyoung Sohn (SNU, linguistics)
MA Thesis Committee [Supervisor] for Jaeyoung Choi (SNU linguistics)
MA Thesis Committee [Supervisor] for Han-Byul Chung (SNU
linguistics)
2006 Ph.D Thesis Committee for Tomoko Kawamura (SUNYSB)
Qualifying Paper Committee for Roksolana Mykhaylyk (SUNYSB)
Qualifying Paper Committee for Youngran An (SUNYSB)
Qualifying Paper Committee for Chi-Hsiang Xu (SUNYSB)
Qualifying Paper Committee for Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (SUNYSB)
Undergraduate Honor’s thesis committee for Stephanie Hanigan
(SUNYSB)
Other Academic Services
2018.8-present Chair, the Center for Education, College of Humanities, SNU
2017.8-2018.8 Chair, the department of linguistics at SNU
2017 Co-Chair, SICOGG 19 (Seoul International Conference On Generative
Grammar), co-organized by SNU and KGGC
2016-present Committee, Research Fund for World Class Department
(funded by SNU)
2016.12 Organizer, Block Seminar by Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
2016.11 Organizer, Block Seminar by Dr. Ted Levin (U of Maryland)
2016. 3 Organizer, Block Seminar by Prof. James H.-S. Yoon (UIUC)
2015 Organizer, Block Seminar by Prof. Tania Ionin (UIUC)
2013-present Organizer, SNU linguistics colloquia series
2011 Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference: Program committee
(co-chair with Seungho Nam & Jongho Jun)
2011 Committee for promotion/tenure evaluation,
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College of Humanities (SNU)
2010 Organizer, Block Seminar by Prof. Marcel den Dikken (CUNY)
2008-2009, 2011 SNU linguistics colloquia series, organizer
2007 Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, SNU
2005 Executive Assistant, Summer Institute, Linguistic Society of America
2004 Acquisition Curriculum Committee, MIT
2004 East Coast 5 Schools’ Joint Syntax Workshop, co-organizer
2003 CUNY processing conference, assistant
2002 – 2003 Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics, co-organizer
2002 MIT linguistics colloquia series, co-organizer
2001 Harvard University-MIT Student Conference 2, co-organizer