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The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

Sungdai Cho , Binghamton University, State University of New York
John Whitman , Cornell University, New York
March 2025
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9781108408547

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    The 'Korean wave' in music and film and Korea's rise to become the twelfth economic power in the world have boosted the world-wide popularity of Korean language study. The linguistic study of Korean, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and unique socio-historical context, is now a rapidly growing research area. Contributions from internationally renowned experts on the language provide a state-of-the-art overview of key current research in Korean language and linguistics. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, and language pedagogy. The Handbook includes cross-linguistic data to illuminate the features of Korean, and examples in Korean script, making it suitable for advanced students and researchers with or without prior knowledge of Korean linguistics. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the exciting and rapidly moving field of Korean linguistics.

    • A state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research in Korean Linguistics, covering all key current areas of study
    • Brings together contributions from a range of internationally renowned experts in Korean language and linguistics
    • Uses theory from a range of linguistic disciplines to explain features of Korean to researchers and advanced students with no prior experience of the language.

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    '… an excellent collection of papers that cover various important topics in Korean linguistics, some of which constitute unique contributions to the study of Korean.' Hee-Rahk Chae, Language

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    August 2022
    Hardback
    9781108418911
    800 pages
    250 × 173 × 56 mm
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    Table of Contents

    • Part I. Korean Overview:
    • 1. Introduction Sungdai Cho and John Whitman
    • 2. Phonology: An Overview Young-Key Kim-Renaud
    • 3. Overview of Chapters on Syntax James Hye-Suk Yoon
    • 4. On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia Alexander Vovin
    • 5. Politeness Strategies in Korean Sungdai Cho
    • 6. Korean Kugyŏl Jae-young Chung and John Whitman
    • Part II. Phonetics and Phonology:
    • 7. Vowel Harmony Seongyeon Ko
    • 8. The Phonology and Phonetics of Korean Stop Laryngeal Contrasts Yoonjung Kang, Jessamyn Schertz and Sungwoo Han
    • 9. The Phonetic-Prosody Interface and Prosodic Strengthening in Korean Taehong Cho
    • 10. Constituent Structure and Sentence Phonology of Korean Seunghun J. Lee
    • 11. Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Korean Stops Sang Yee Cheon
    • Part III. Morphology and Syntax:
    • 12. Right-Dislocation in Korean: An Overview Heejeong Ko
    • 13. Experimental Insights on the Grammar of Korean Anaphors Chung-hye Han
    • 14. Person-Denoting Nominals: Interpretations and Structures Shin-Sook Kim and Peter Sells
    • 15. Lexical Nominalizations in Korean James Hye-Suk Yoon
    • 16. The Processing of a Long-Distance Dependency in Korean: An Overview Nayoung Kwon
    • Part IV. Semantics and Pragmatics:
    • 17. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Korean Grammar Ho-min Sohn
    • 18. Discourse Studies in Korean Haeyeon Kim
    • 19. Metaphoric and Metonymic Patterns with the Body-Part Term Nwun 'Eye(s)' in Korean Ebru Türker
    • 20. Wh-indefinites Jiwon Yun
    • 21. 'Expletive' Negation in Korean Suwon Yoon
    • 22. Case Stacking in Korean: Argument Structure or Information Structure? EunHee Lee
    • Part V. Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics:
    • 23. Grammaticalization in Korean Seongha Rhee
    • 24. Performing Gender in Korean: Language, Gender, and Social Change Minju Kim
    • 25. Jejueo: Korea's Other Language William O'Grady, Changyong Yang and Sejung Yang
    • Part VI. Language Pedagogy:
    • 26. Genre-Based Approach to Korean Language Teaching: A Curriculum Application Hye-Sook Wang
    • 27. Towards Integrated Performance Assessment Sahie Kang
    • 28. Interactional Competence in Korean Language Mary Shin Kim
    • 29. From Bilingual Speakers to Korean Heritage Language Learners Hi-Sun Kim
    • 30. Language Policy and Its Effect in South Korea Hyunsik Min.
      Contributors
    • Sungdai Cho, John Whitman, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, James Hye-Suk Yoon, Alexander Vovin, Jae-young Chung, Seongyeon Ko, Yoonjung Kang, Jessamyn Schertz, Sungwoo Han, Taehong Cho, Seunghun J. Lee, Sang Yee Cheon, Heejeong Ko, Chung-hye Han, Shin-Sook Kim, Peter Sells, Nayoung Kwon, Ho-min Sohn, Haeyeon Kim, Ebru Türker , Jiwon Yun, Suwon Yoon, EunHee Lee, Seongha Rhee, Minju Kim, William O'Grady, Changyong Yang, Sejung Yang, Hye-Sook Wang, Sahie Kang, Mary Shin Kim, Hi-Sun Kim, Hyunsik Min

    • Editors
    • Sungdai Cho , Binghamton University, State University of New York

      Sungdai Cho is Professor of Korean Linguistics and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at State University of New York, Binghamton. He is internationally renowned in Korean linguistics and Korean language pedagogy, with main research interests in syntax and morphology as well as Learning Motivation and Testing.

    • John Whitman , Cornell University, New York

      John Whitman is Professor and current chair of the Department of Linguistics at Cornell. He has published extensively on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean – their history, relations, and structure. Cho and Whitman have recently co-authored Korean: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge, 2020).