[KS] Workshop Announcement: Korean at the Nexus of Northeast Asian Linguistic Area

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Korean at the Nexus of Northeast Asian Linguistic Area

A workshop on Korean Studies and Korean Linguistics at Seoul National
University, October 26-27, 2018

 

Organized by John Whitman, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University and
Sungdai Cho, Director of the Center for Korean Studies and Asian Studies at
SUNY-Binghamton, this workshop brings together a group of leading scholars
to discuss the place of the Korean language in the Northeast Asian
linguistic area.

 

The workshop is an activity of the Academy of Korean Studies Laboratory
Program for Korean Studies grant project Korean at the Nexus of the
Northeast Asian Linguistic Area. While previous linguistic research on the
Korean language has focused on possible genetic links between Korean and
other languages, as well as distinctive typological and structural features
of Korean, our project and this workshop shifts the focus to an areal
perspective. Korean has important features in common with most of the
languages in the adjoining area of Northeast Asia, regardless of whether it
is genetically related to them. Earlier research has tended to divide the
linguistic areas of Northeast Asia into "Siberia" and "East Asia". We
suggest that Northeast Asia as a whole may be regarded as a linguistic area
or Sprachbund, extending from northern varieties of Sinitic (Chinese) to
Siberian isolates such as Nivkh and Yukaghir. A further part of our working
hypothesis is that Korean has central role among the languages of this
region, due to its history and geographic location. It shares features with
languages to its north, east, and south, mirroring the central cultural and
political placement of Korea that continues to this day.

 

The workshop will take place over two days. Presentations on October 26 will
focus on the areal/typological background, while papers on October 27 will
examine distinctive features of Korean.

 

For further information contact the Center for Korean Studies at
SUNY-Binghamton at  <mailto:cks at binghamton.edu> cks at binghamton.edu.

 

The workshop is funded by the Laboratory Program for Korean Studies through
the Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea and the Korean Studies
Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies grant
AKS-2016-LAB-2250004 to Cornell University.

 

Center for Korean Studies

The State University of New York at Binghamton

 <mailto:cks at binghamton.edu> cks at binghamton.edu / 607-777-3175

 

 

SCHEDULE

 

Korean at the Nexus of Northeast Asian Linguistic Area

October 26-27, 2018, Seoul National University

 

October 26, Friday

Shinyang Humanities Hall 302

 

9:00-9:15 AM Welcome Sungdai Cho (SUNY-Binghamton)

9:15-10:00 AM John Whitman (Cornell University) "Korean at the Nexus of
Northeast Linguistic Area"

10:00-10:45 AM Andrej Malchukov (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) "On
Some Syntactic Isoglosses between Tungusic, Korean and Japanese"

10:45-11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 AM Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki) "Morphosyntactic
Transformation of Nivkh in the Context of the Amur Linguistic Area"

11:45 AM-12:30 PM Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki) "Amuric-the
Forgotten Protohistorical Northern Neighbour of Korean"

12:30-2:00 PM Lunch

2:00-2:45 PM Seongyeon Ko (Queens College, CUNY) "A Comparative and
Typological Investigation of Vowel Harmony Systems in Altaic, Northeast
Asian and Beyond"

2:45-3:30 PM Alexander Vovin (EHESS-CRLAO) "East or West, but Korean is the
Best: On the Centrality of Koreanic in the Early Medieval Language Contacts
in North-East Asia"

3:30-4:15 PM Jinho Park (Seoul National University) "Morphological
Complexity in North-East Asian Languages"

4:15-4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30-5:15 PM Seongha Rhee (Hankook University of Foreign Studies)
"Grammaticalization in Korean"

5:15-6:00 PM SeungJae Lee (Seoul National University) "Phonological
Oppositions in Affricate Consonants of Early Middle Chinese"

6:00-6:45 PM Zev Handel (University of Washington) "Reconstructing Early
Middle Chinese Sibilant Consonants: Implications of Old Korean Phonological
Oppositions"

 

October 27, Saturday

Shinyang Humanities Hall 302

 

9:00-9:15 AM Welcome John Whitman (Cornell University)

9:15-10:00 AM James Hye Suk Yoon (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
"Lexical and Syntactic Nominalizations in Korean"

10:00-10:45 AM Heejeong Ko (Seoul National University) "Right-dislocation in
Korean"

10:45-11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 AM Yutaka Sato (International Christian University) "A Copula
Functioning as a Light Verb in Korean"

11:45 AM-12:30 PM Seunghun Lee (International Christian University)
"Phonetics of /h/ Following Plosives in Two Korean Dialects: Seoul and
Gwangju"

12:30-2:00 PM Lunch

2:00-2:45 PM Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University) "On-line Evidence of
Island effects in the Korean Relative Clause"

2:45-3:30 PM Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS University of London) "Diaspora Varieties of
Korean: Morpho-syntactic characteristics of Korean in Central Asia and
Yanbian"

3:30-3:45 PM Coffee Break

3:45-4:30 PM Sungdai Cho (SUNY at Binghamton) "Valency Alternations in
Korean"

4:30-5:15 PM Ho-min Sohn (University of Hawaii) "Subjectivity and
Intersubjectivity in Korean Grammar"

5:15-6:00 PM William O'Grady (University of Hawaii) "Issues in the Study of
Jejueo"

 

 

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