Heejeong Ko, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Seoul National University
San 56-1, Sinlim-dong
Gwanak-Gu, Seoul
South Korea, zip: 151-748
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, Second Language Acquisition, and Neurolinguistics
- 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
- The Semantics
of Articles in L2-English (in collaboration with Tania Ionin, Alex Preovic, and
Ken Wexler)
- Specificity, Partitivity and Definitentess in UG
- The role of UG in L2-English by L1-Korean, Russian,
and Serbo-Croatian speakers
- The role of semantics in acquisition of scrambling (in collaboration
with Roksolana Myhaylyk)
- Specificity in the acquisition of object scrambling by Ukrainian-English
Bilingual children
- Specificity in the acquisition of scrambling and articles by
bilingual children
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