Seoyeon Jang

Area of interest:

formal semantics and its interfaces cross-linguistically

Non-canonical interrogative clauses

Echo Questions
Echo Questions (EQs) are a type of interrogative clause asking for confirmation of what has been previously said, like 'echo questions are WHAT?!'. Languages vary in how they distinguish EQs from ordinary information-seeking questions, and Korean makes use of overt morpho-syntactic marking.

• A semantic analysis for Korean echo questions
• Semantic evidence for the non-compositional nature of the echo question marker tako in Korean

Wh-reduplication (a.k.a wh-doublets)
Some Asian languages, including Korean, reduplicate wh-words in interrogative clauses to mark plurality, and language vary in contexts that allow wh-reduplication. I am interested in semantic accounts for the patterns found in novel data.

• Wh-reduplication in Korean and Khalkha Mongolian

Dative Alternation

• Verb Sensitivity of the English Dative Alternation: Experimental Evidence from Give-type Verbs
• The realization of recipients of dative verbs in Korean: A stochastic Optimality-Theoretic Analysis

Here is my curriculum vitae.

Spring 2024: LIGN 130 Semantics (Instructor; syllabus)
Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:30 am (Zoom link on Canvas)

Previous quarters

• Winter 2024: LIGN 119 1st and 2nd Language Learning: Childhood through Adolescence
• Fall 2023: LIGN 177 Multilingualism
• Spring 2023: LIGN 130 Semantics (Instructor; syllabus)
• Winter 2023: LIGN 175 Sociolinguistics
• Fall 2022: LIGN 101 Introduction to the Study of Language
• Spring 2022: LIGN 130 Semantics
• Winter 2022: LIGN 8 Languages and Cultures of America
• Fall 2021: LIGN 177 Multilingualism
• Summer II 2021: LIGN 130 Semantics
• Spring 2021: LIGN 130 Semantics
• Winter 2021: LIGN 8 Languages and Cultures of America
• Summer II 2020: LIGN 101 Introduction to the Study of Language
• Spring 2020: LIGN 130 Semantics
• Winter 2020: LIGN 119 1st and 2nd Language Learning: Childhood through Adolescence
• Fall 2019: LIGN 101 Introduction to the Study of Language
• Spring 2019: HDS 120 Language Development
• Winter 2019: LIGN 174 Gender and Language
• Fall 2018: LIGN 8 Languages and Cultures of America

Have you ever seen this dog?

Now you have! This beautiful dog is 랑지 Rangji ([ɾaŋdʑi]), who was born in Korea in (probably) 2018, was rescued in 2020, and became my family in 2021. Her name came from the Korean word 꼬랑지 kkorangji, which means 'tail' in Kyungsang (Southeastern) dialect, for of course her awesome tail! Rangji is living with my family in Korea and I miss her so much.

Cinema

I love watching films and my favorite director is Wang Kar-wai. I like all of his works, but what I love the most is Happy Together (1997), starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing. Other than Wong Kar-wai's works, I tend to be attracted to Asian films with minority narratives---women, LGBTQ+, and children. My recent favorites are Moonlit Winter (Lim Dae-hyung, 2019) and Our Body (Han Ka-ram, 2018). If you'd like to know more about these films, click the pictures above.

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