Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 23

Michael Kenstowicz, Theodore Levin, and Ryo Masuda

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements

Part I Phonology

• A Corpus-Based Study of Positional Variation in Seoul Korean Vowels
  Yoonjung Kang
• Wh Prosody is Not Focus Prosody in Fukuoka Japanese
  Jennifer L. Smith
• A Corpus-based Study on the Layered Duration in Standard Korean
  Tae-Jin Yoon

Part II Syntax

• An Experimental Investigation of Island Effects in Korean
  Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall
• Idioms in Korean and Japanese: A phase based account
  Kyumin Kim
• Suffer as a Not-at-issue Meaning: Evidence from the Affected Experiencer Construction in Korean
  Lan Kim
• Another Look at Negative Polarity Items in Japanese
  Hideki Kishimoto
• NP-Ellipsis in the Nagasaki Dialect of Japanese
  Masako Maeda and Daiko Takahashi
• Why Japanese and Korean Differ in the Behavior of Genitive Subjects
  Hideki Maki, Megumi Hasebe, Lina Bao, Michael Sevier, Ling-Yun Fan, and Shogo Tokugawa
• Implications of Constraints on Null Constitutents for Analyses of the Right Dislocation Construction
  James Hye Suk Yoon

Part III Semantics

• SA Formal Analysis of Japanese V-yuku and its Grammaticalization
  Fumihito Arai and Toshio Hidaka
• A Novel wh-Indeterminate in Korean: wh-inka as a Marker of Referential Vagueness
  Arum Kang
• On the Stativity of the Fourth Class Verbs and their Cousins in Japanese
  Kiyomi Kusumoto
• E-Type Anaphora of Degree in Izyooni(than)-Comparatives
  Toshiko Oda
• On Two Varieties of Negative Polar Interrogatives in Japanese
  Satoshi Ito and David Y. Oshima
• Apparent Vehicle Change Phenomena in the Absence of Ellipsis
  Junko Shimoyama and Alex Drummond
• The Derivation of Soo-su: Some Implications for the Architecture of Japanese VP
  Hideharu Tanaka

Part IV Historical Linguistics

• Ubiquitous Variability in the Phonological Form of Loanwords: Tracing Early Borrowings into Japanese over Five Centuries of Contact
  Aaron Albin
• Phonological Reduction and the (Re)emergence of Attributive Forms in Yaeyama Ryukyuan
  Tyler Lau and Christopher Davis
• Towards a Stronger Theory of Proto-Korean-Japanese
  Alexander T. Ratte

Part V Discourse

• Reference in Discourse: The Case of L2 and Heritage Korean
  Hyunah Ahn

Part VI Poster Session Abstracts