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Dr Suwon Yoon

[Dr Suwon Yoon]

Associate Professor, Linguistics and TESOL
Last Updated: June 18, 2021
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Research Interests

Research Interests
Specialization: Theoretical Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax and their Interfaces. Psycholinguistics (Sentence processing, Prosody, Statistical Analysis) Specific Topics: Expletive Negation, Polarity, Mood/Modality, Main Clause Phenomena, Relative Clauses, Conditionals, Ellipsis, Case, Comparatives, Definiteness, Metalinguistic elements, Rhetorical effects, Expressives, Politeness, Crosslinguistic research on East Asian and other languages. Additional Training 2010 TESOL Certificate (with Distinction), International TESOL Accrediting Authority (I-TAA) accredited, USA. 1998 Diploma in European Studies, Bellerbys College, Hastings, U.K.

Teaching Interests

Teaching Interests
Theoretical Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax

Biography

Biography

Dr. Suwon Yoon is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas, Arlington. She earned her doctorate at the University of Chicago (2011). She has also held visiting assistant professorship at Cornell University (2011) and postdoctoral research fellowship at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany (2012-3). Her research focuses on the interface of theoretical Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax and psycholinguistics. Her work has been published in linguistic journals at Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Language Sciences, Sign Language Studies, and book chapters in Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics and The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Language and Linguistics. Dr. Yoon also edited four volumes of Linguistic series.

Education

Education

    • 2011 PhD in Linguistics
      University of Chicago
    • 2007 Additional Training in Linguistics
      LSA Summer Institute, Linguistic Society of America, Stanford University
    • 2003 MA in English Linguistics
      Seoul National University
    • 2001 BA in English Language and Literature
      University Of Seoul

Licensure and Certifications

Licensure and Certifications

    • 2010 TESOL Certificate (with Distinction), International TESOL Accrediting Authority (I-TAA) accredited
    • 1998 Diploma in European Studies, Bellerbys College, Hastings, U.K.

Appointments

Appointments

    • Sept 2013 to Present Assistant Professor
      Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington
    • Mar 2012 to July 2013 Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
    • Sept 2011 to Dec 2011 Visiting Lecturer
      Collegiate Division of Humanities, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, United States)
    • Jan 2011 to June 2011 Visiting Assistant Professor
      Department of Linguistics, Cornell University (NY, United States)

Awards and Honors

    • May  2018 Travel Grant for a visit to SNU International Conference on Linguistics sponsored by Office of Research, UTA.
    • Apr  2018 Dean’s Endowment for Faculty Research sponsored by CoLA, University of Texas, Arlington
    • Sep  2013 Startup Funding for research and development sponsored by University of Texas, Arlington
    • Jan  2011 Research Grant sponsored by Department of Linguistics, Cornell University.
    • Aug  2009 Mellon Graduate Achievement Scholarship sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
    • Aug  2009 Whiting Dissertation Year Fellowship sponsored by Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
    • May  2009 CLS Travel Grant for a visit to The 32nd GLOW Colloquium at Université de Nantes sponsored by Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago.
    • Aug  2008 Provost's Summer Research Fellowships sponsored by Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago
    • May  2008 Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship for a visit to The 5th Workshop on Altaic and Formal Linguistics (WAFL) at SOAS, University of London, UK sponsored by Office of Graduate Affairs, University of Chicago.
    • Aug  2007 Fellowship for the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute sponsored by Stanford University.
    • May  2007 CEAS Travel Grant for a visit to The 2007 Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Anaheim, CA, USA sponsored by The Center for East Asian Studies. University of Chicago.
    • May  2007 Travel Grant for a visit to On Linguistic Interfaces (OnLI) at University of Ulster, Belfast, UK sponsored by Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago
    • Jan  2006 University Fellowship sponsored by University of Chicago, USA
    • May  2005 Travel Grant for a visit to Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 7 in Seoul, Korea sponsored by Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago.
    • Jan  2002 Teaching Assistance Scholarship sponsored by Seoul National University, Korea.
    • Jan  2000 Scholarships for Excellence in grades sponsored by University of Seoul, Korea.
    • Jan  1996 Admitted with Top Honors sponsored by Department of English Lang. and Lit., University of Seoul, Korea.
    • Jan  1996 Mayor of Seoul City Scholarship sponsored by University of Seoul, Korea.

Support & Funding

Support & Funding

Publications


      2011
      • Book
        Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics
        [Yoon, Suwon, Chatzopoulos, A, Ioannidou, A].

      2007
      • Book
        Chicago Linguistic Society 43. Vol 1
        [Yoon, Suwon, Elliott, M, Kirby, J, Sawada, O, Staraki, E]. The Main Session: Gradience in Grammar, Chicago. 1, "Chicago Linguistic Society".
      • Book
        Chicago Linguistic Society 43. Vol 2
        Papers from the 43th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.he Parasession: Cross-linguistic variation in semantics / The Syntax of Wh-structures / Gaps, exceptions and paradigm defectiveneshe Parasession: Cross-linguistic variation in semantics / The Syntax of Wh-structures / Gaps, exceptions and paradigm defectivenes
        [Yoon, Suwon, Elliott, M, Kirby, J, Sawada, O, Staraki, E]. he Parasession: Cross-linguistic variation in semantics / The Syntax of Wh-structures / Gaps, exceptions and paradigm defectivenes. 2, Chicago, IL: "Chicago Linguistic Society".

      2003
      • Book
        SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics.
        [Yoon, Suwon, Cho, C, Cho, H, Lee, S, Shin, J]. 2, Seoul: "Seoul National University".

      In Process
      • Book Chapter
        (final accept). Expletive Negation in Korean
        The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Language and Linguistics.
        [Yoon, Suwon, Whitman, John, Cho, Sungdai]. "Cambridge University Press". Accepted.

      2011
      • Book Chapter
        Expletive Negation in Japanese and Korean
        Japanese/Korean Linguistics
        [Yoon, Suwon, den Dikken, Marcel, McClure, William]. 18, 423-434. Stanford: "CSLI Publications".

      2010
      2008
      • Book Chapter
        Syntax and Semantics of Negation. Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages
        Congress Book of the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18)
        [Yoon, Suwon]. 2541-2558. Seoul: "Linguistic Society of Korea".
      • Book Chapter
        Two Types of Negative Indefinite in Korean
        Inquires into Korean Linguistics III
        [Yoon, Suwon, Whitman, J, Lee, P, Suh, C, Cho, S, Jung, Y, Chung, J, Han, J]. 179-192. Seoul: "Hankook Publishing".

      2019
      • Conference Proceeding
        The subjunctive complementizer in Korean: the interaction between inquisitiveness and nonveridicality
        [Kang, Arum, Yoon, Suwon, ]. Proceedings of the Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) in Asia XII.

      2018
      • Conference Proceeding
        On reduced conditionals in Korean: a pronominalization approach
        [Yoon, Suwon, Yoshida, Masaya]. Proceedings of the 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 20).

      2017
      • Conference Proceeding
        From referential vagueness to metalinguistic negation: anti-specificity marker in American Sign Language,Proceedings of the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG19)
        [Fleckenstein, Kristen, Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG19). Seoul: "Hankook Publishing".
      • Conference Proceeding
        Negation in ASL: The role of Jespersen’s Cycle and semantic restructuring, Proceedings of the 52nd Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 52)
        [Fleckenstein, Kristen, Yoon, Suwon, Kantarovich, Jessica, Truong, Tran, Xherija, Orest]. Proceedings of the 52nd Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 52). 52, 203-216. "University of Chicago".

      2016
      • Conference Proceeding
        Individual and propositional variation in disjunction: referentially vague indefinite and modalized question
        [Kang, Arum, Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the 18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 18). Seoul: "Hankook Publishing".
      • Conference Proceeding
        Jespersen’s Cycle and the scope of negation in American Sign Language
        [Fleckenstein, Kristen, Yoon, Suwon, Clem, E, Dawson, V, Shen, A, Skilton, A, Bacon, G, Cheng, A, Maier, E]. Proceedings of the 42nd Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS 42). 107-118. "UC Berkeley".
      • Conference Proceeding
        Two types of speaker’s ignorance over the epistemic space
        [Kang, Arum, Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 1(21), 1-15. "LSA". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3723

      2015
      • Conference Proceeding
        Incremental parsing in Korean: conditionals and relative clauses
        [Yoon, Suwon, Yoshida, M]. Proceedings ofthe 15th Texas Linguistic Society conference (TLS XV). 203-215. "University of Texas at Austin".
      • Conference Proceeding
        Referential vagueness, non-scalar NPIs, and EVEN-weakening: evidence from Greek and Korean
        [Giannakidou, A, Yoon, Suwon, Abrego-Collier, Carissa, Kang, Arum, Martinovic, Martina, Nguyen, Chieu]. Proceedings of the 47th Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 47). 2, 63-77. "University of Chicago".

      2014
      • Conference Proceeding
        No NPI licensing in clausal comparatives
        [Yoon, Suwon, Giannakidou, A, Grinsell, Timothy, Baker, Adam, Thomas, Julia, Baglini, Rebekah, Keane, Jon]. Proceedings of the 46th ChicagoLinguistic Society (CLS 46). 2, 79-96. "University of Chicago".

      2013
      • Conference Proceeding
        Embedded Root Clause Phenomena: ERCP in Korean vs. V2 in German
        [Yoon, Suwon, Keine, Stefan, Sloggett, Shayne]. Proceedings of NELS 42. 2, 291-304. Amherst, Mass.: "GLSA".

      2011
      • Conference Proceeding
        Metalinguistic Comparatives: from Greek to Korean
        [Yoon, Suwon, Chatzopoulos, Aikaterini, Ioannidou, Alexandra, Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. 287-300.

      2009
      • Conference Proceeding
        From Subjunctive to Negation
        [Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium. West Lafayette, IN: "Purdue Linguistics Association, Purdue University".
      • Conference Proceeding
        Metalinguistic functions and the Expressive Dimension in Greek and Korean: attitude semantics, expressive meaning and NPI licensing
        [Giannakidou, A, Yoon, Suwon, Geist, Ljudmila, von Heusinger, Klaus, Kamp, Hans, Klein, Udo, Martin, Fabienne, Onea, Edgar, Riester, Arndt, Solstad, Torgrim]. Proceedings of the 13th Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 13). 141-156. Stuttgart: "Publikations verbund der Universität Stuttgart (OPUS)".
      • Conference Proceeding
        Mood in Abstract Complementizer: Altaic vs. non-Altaic languages
        [Yoon, Suwon, Shibagaki, Ryosuke, Vermeulen, Reiko]. Proceedings of the fifth Workshop on Altaic and Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5). 5, 373-384. Cambridge, MA: "MITWPL".

      2008
      • Conference Proceeding
        Comparative and Negation: three types of comparatives in Greek and Korean
        [Giannakidou, A, Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 6. 386-389. Seoul: "The Korean Society for Cognitive Science, Sigma Press".
      • Conference Proceeding
        How to Tell the Scope of Negation
        [Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the Purdue Linguistics AssociationSymposium. West Lafayette, IN: "Purdue Linguistics Association, Purdue University".
      • Conference Proceeding
        No-one vs. Anyone : a morphological account of n-words
        [Yoon, Suwon]. Proceedings of the Workshop inGeneral Linguistics. 8, Wisconsin: "UW - Madison".
      • Conference Proceeding
        The landscape of metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korean
        [Giannakidou, A, Yoon, Suwon, Kim, Young-Sun]. Proceedings of the 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. 15-32. Seoul: "Hankook Publishing".

      2007
      • Conference Proceeding
        Re-analysis of Wh-phrase Dichotomy
        [Yoon, Suwon, Lee, Doo-Won]. Locality and Minimalism: Proceedings of the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. 299-312. Seoul: "Hankook Publishing".

      2005
      • Conference Proceeding
        Scrambling as a Disambiguation Strategy: On Wh-phrase Scrambling in Korean and Japanese
        [Yoon, Suwon, Choi, Kiyong, Yim, Changguk]. Ellipsis in minimalism: Proceedings of the 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. 33-44. Seoul: "Hankook Publishing".

      2008
      • Manuscript
        From Specificity to Negative Polarity: evidence from two types of negative indefinites in Korean
        [Yoon, Suwon].
      • Manuscript
        Sentential Mood Reflected on Prosody and Gesture
        [Yoon, Suwon, Nusbaum, Howard].

      2007
      • Manuscript
        Case Ellipsis in Korean: an argument-adjunct asymmetry
        [Yoon, Suwon]. "University of Chicago".

      2006
      • Manuscript
        An Experimental Approach to Phonetic Contrast in Consonant Property of “p” in Korean: a synchronic case of consonant-tone interaction
        [Yoon, Suwon]. "University of Chicago".

      2008
      • Research Report
        From Non-Specificity to Polarity.
        Special edition of UW Working Papers in Linguistics UWWPL
        [Yoon, Suwon, Moran, Steven, Tanner, DarrenS, Scanlon, Michael]. 27, Seattle, WA: "University of Washington".
      • Research Report
        Negative Concord in Korean and Japanese
        [Yoon, Suwon]. University of Chicago Working Papers in Linguistics. "University of Chicago Working Papers Inc.".

      2007
      • Research Report
        An Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Wh-questions
        [Yoon, Suwon, Tauberer, Joshua, Eilam, Aviad, MacKenzie, Laurel]. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL). 14(1), 381-394. "University of Pennsylvania".

      2003
      • Research Report
        Licensing Constraint of Negative Polarity Items in English
        SNU Working Papers in English Language and Linguistics
        [Yoon, Suwon, Cho, Chung-gon, Cho, Hae-sun, Lee, Shi-na, Shin, Jung-ah, Yoon, Suwon]. 2, 108-132. Seoul: "Seoul National University".

Presentations

    • November  2019
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Yang, Meng (Author & Presenter), "Metalinguistic comparatives in Mandarin Chinese: relativized emotional attitudes". (November 8, 2019).
    • August  2019
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Kang, Arum (Author & Presenter), , "The subjunctive complementizer in Korean: the interaction between inquisitiveness and nonveridicality". (August 10, 2019).
    • December  2018
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Kang, Arum (Author & Presenter), , "The subjunctive complementizer in Korean: the interaction between inquisitiveness and nonveridicality". (December 8, 2018).
    • June  2018
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Yoshida, Masaya (Author), "The CP structure of Nominal Conditionals: clausal ellipsis and intervention effects in Korean", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.. (June 15, 2018).
    • June  2018
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Kang, Arum (Author & Presenter), "Two types of modalized question markers in Korean: nka vs. ul-kka", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. . (June 15, 2018).
    • June  2018
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "On Expletive Negation ", Institute for Language and Information, Korea University.. (June 14, 2018).
    • October  2017
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Fleckenstein, Kristen (Author & Presenter), "The Dual Role of the Anti-specificity Marker in American Sign Language", UTA, Ft Worth, TX. (October 20, 2017).
    • August  2017
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Fleckenstein, Kristen (Author), "From referential vagueness to metalinguistic negation: anti-specificity marker in American Sign Language", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (August 9, 2017).
    • August  2016
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Kang, Arum (Author & Presenter), " Individual and propositional variation in disjunction: referentially vague indefinite and modalized question", Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. (August 3, 2016).
    • May  2016
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "The Semantics and Syntax of Expletive Negation", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (May 20, 2016).
    • April  2016
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Fleckenstein, Kristen (Author & Presenter), "Jespersen’s Cycle and the scope of negation in American Sign Language", University of Chicago, Illinois. (April 21, 2016).
    • April  2016
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Fleckenstein, Kristen (Author & Presenter), "Jespersen’s Cycle and the scope of negation in American Sign Language ", University of Göttingen, Germany. (April 5, 2016).
    • February  2016
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Fleckenstein, Kristen (Author & Presenter), "Jespersen’s Cycle and scope of negation in American Sign Language", UC Berkeley, California. (February 5, 2016).
    • January  2016
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Kang, Arum (Author & Presenter), "Two types of speaker’s ignorance over the epistemic space: Referential vagueness marker inka vs. epistemic subjunctive marker nka in Korean", Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Washington, D.C.. (January 7, 2016).
    • October  2015
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Yoshida, Masaya (Author), "Two cases of incremental parsing in Korean: conditionals and relative clauses", The University of Texas at Austin, Texas. (October 24, 2015).
    • July  2015
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Kang, Arum (Author & Presenter), "Two types of speaker’s ignorance over the epistemic space", The University of Chicago, Illinois. (July 24, 2015).
    • May  2014
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Evaluative Negation", Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago.. (May 14, 2014).
    • May  2014
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "EVEN in non-emphatic non-scalar NPIs (negative polarity items)", Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago. (May 14, 2014).
    • April  2014
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Yoshida, Masaya (Author), "When are Clause-Final Verbs Facilitated in Korean? ", Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington.. (April 25, 2014).
    • March  2014
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Yoshida, Masaya (Author & Presenter), "When are Clause-Final Verbs Facilitated in Korean?", The University of Chicago, Illinois. (March 8, 2014).
    • January  2014
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Yoshida, Masaya (Author), "When are Clause-Final Verbs Facilitated in Korean?", Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (January 2, 2014).
    • October  2013
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Giannakidou, Anastasia (Author), "On the distribution of NPIs in clausal comparatives", Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, Texas. (October 26, 2013).
    • January  2013
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "The Syntax and Semantics of Evaluative Negation and Root Transformation: a cross-linguistic approach", Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. (January 25, 2013).
    • October  2012
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Embedded Root-Clause Phenomena: V2 in German and ERCP in Korean/Japanese", Department of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.. (October 19, 2012).
    • October  2012
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "The Syntax and Semantics of Evaluative Negation: a cross-linguistic analysis", Department of Linguistics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands. (October 9, 2012).
    • April  2012
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Embedded Root-Clause Phenomena in Korean vs. V2 in German", Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.. (April 24, 2012).
    • March  2012
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Yoshida, Masaya (Author & Presenter), "On the Syntax of Conditional Topics in Japanese ", University of Chicago. (March 2, 2012).
    • January  2012
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Embedded Root Phenomena in Korean versus V2 in German", Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Portland, Oregon. (January 5, 2012).
    • November  2011
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "On Embedded Root Phenomena: ERP in Korean versus V2 in Germanic language", University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (November 12, 2011).
    • October  2011
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Giannakidou, A (Author & Presenter), den Dikken, M (Author & Presenter), "On the distribution of NPIs in clausal comparatives", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (October 21, 2011).
    • October  2011
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Giannakidou, Anastasia (Author & Presenter), "Non-emphatic NPIs, innocuous focus marking, and non-exhaustive variation: the view from Greek and Korean", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (October 19, 2011).
    • May  2011
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "The Syntax of Evaluative Negation", City University of New York Graduate Center, NY. (May 10, 2011).
    • April  2011
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Negation and Negativity", School ofPhilosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. (April 13, 2011).
    • April  2011
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Giannakidou, A (Author & Presenter), "Referential vagueness and negative polarity: evidence from Greek and Korean", University of Chicago, Illinois. (April 8, 2011).
    • April  2010
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Giannakidou, A (Author & Presenter), "No NPI licensing in clausal comparative", University of Chicago, Illinois. (April 9, 2010).
    • October  2009
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Metalinguistic Comparatives from Greek to Korean", University of Chicago, Illinois. (October 30, 2009).
    • September  2009
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Giannakidou, A (Author & Presenter), "Metalinguistic functions and the expressive dimension: Expressive Comparatives in Greek and Korean", University of Stuttgart, Germany. (September 30, 2009).
    • May  2009
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "From Subjunctive to Negation", Purdue Linguistics Association. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. (May 9, 2009).
    • April  2009
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Expressivity of Non-truth conditional Negation", Université de Nantes, Nantes, France. (April 16, 2009).
    •  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Giannakidou, Anastasia (Presenter), "Metalinguistic functions and the expressive dimension: Expressive Comparatives in Greek and Korean", University of Chicago. ( , 2008).
    •  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Giannakidou, Anastasia (Author), "The landscape of metalinguistic comparatives in Greek and Korea", Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. ( , 2008).
    •  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Two Types of Negative Indefinites in Korean", Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. ( , 2008).
    • November  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Expletive Negation in Japanese and Korea", The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York. (November 13, 2008).
    • July  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), Giannakidou, A (Author), "Comparative and Negation: three types of comparatives in Greek and Korean", Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. (July 27, 2008).
    • July  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Syntax and Semantics of Negatio", Korea University, Seoul, Korea. (July 21, 2008).
    • June  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author), Giannakidou, Anastasia (Author & Presenter), "Comparatives, Negation, and Ellipsis: three case studies in Greek and Korean", Université Paris 7, Paris, France. (June 20, 2008).
    • May  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Mood in Abstract Complementizer: Altaic vs.non-Altaic languages", SOAS, University of London, London, UK. (May 23, 2008).
    • May  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "From Non-Specificity to Polarity", University of Washington, Washington . (May 3, 2008).
    • April  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "No-one vs. Anyone : a morphological account of n-words", UW - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. (April 4, 2008).
    • March  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "How to Tell the Scope of Negation", Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. (March 29, 2008).
    • January  2008
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "The Scope of Negation: Predicate vs. Propositional", LSA, Chicago, Illinois. (January 3, 2008).
    • August  2007
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Re-analysis of Wh-phrase Dichotomy", KwangwoonUniversity, Seoul, Korea. (August 8, 2007).
    • June  2007
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "An Experimental Approach to Intervention Effect Asymmetry: Processing and Phonology-Syntax interface", University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. (June 1, 2007).
    • March  2007
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Intervention Effects Revisited", CUNY, New York City, New York. (March 30, 2007).
    • March  2007
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "The Nature of Negation in Korean", University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. (March 6, 2007).
    • February  2007
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "An Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Wh-questions", University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. (February 23, 2007).
    • January  2007
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "An Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Intervention Effects: a novel argument for LF", LSA, Anaheim, California. (January 4, 2007).
    •  2006
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "An Intervention Effect Asymmetry of Wh-Argument vs. Wh-Adjunct in Korean and Japanese: a feature checking approach", University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. ( , 2006).
    •  2006
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Negative Concord in Korean and Japanese", University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. ( , 2006).
    •  2005
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Scrambling as a Disambiguation Strategy: On Wh-phrase Scrambling in Korean and Japanese", Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. ( , 2005).
    •  2004
      Yoon, Suwon (Author & Presenter), "Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in English", Department of English,Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. ( , 2004).

Students Supervised

    • Present
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Alhassan Abdullah J Alzahrani, (Linguistics and Tesol)
    • Present
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Natalie Raun Carter, (Linguistics and Tesol)
    • Aug 2020
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Carly Sommerlot,
    • Aug 2020
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Daniel Amy, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      Massive Pied Piping: What are we missing?
    • Aug 2020
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Ibrahim Alluhaybi, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      The Place Deixis of Modern Standard Arabic
    • May 2020
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Meng Yang, (Linguistics and Tesol)
    • Aug 2018
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Juliet Hyunh, (Linguistics and Tesol)
    • May 2018
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Carly Sommerlot,
    • Apr 2018
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Carly Sommerlot, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      QP Evaluation committee, Member
      The interaction of ber-and -nya: Demoting the subject in Indonesian
    • Dec 2017
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Seula Han, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      QP Evaluation committee, Member
      Acoustic analysis of /s/ palatalization in English loanwords in Korean
    • Dec 2017
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Kevin Daily, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      QP Evaluation committee, Member
      A Look into Korean Stress: A Production and Perceptual Study
    • Dec 2017
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Carly Sommerlot ,
    • Dec 2017
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Emily Elizabeth Finley,
    • Dec 2017
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Kevin Daily,
    • July 2017
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Darcey Browning, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      Information Packaging with Hashtags on Twitter
    • May 2017
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Kristen Fleckenstein,
    • Dec 2016
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Ibrahim Alluhaybi, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      QP Evaluation committee, Member
      Place deixis in Arabic
    • Dec 2016
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Kristen Fleckenstein, QP Evaluation committee, Chair (Linguistics and Tesol)
      Jespersen’s Cycle and the scope ofnegation in American Sign Language
    • Dec 2016
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Juliet Huynh,
    • May 2016
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Kristen Fleckenstein,
    • Dec 2015
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Juliet Huynh, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      QP Evaluation committee, Member
      Can L2 words access meaning? Evidence from false memories.
    • Dec 2015
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Kimberly Catherine Johnson,
    • Dec 2015
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Kristen Fleckenstein,
    • July 2015
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Lynnelle Rhinier Brown, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      Requesting the Context: A Context Analysis of Let Statement and If Statement Requests and Commands in theSanta Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
    • Jan 2015
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Jung Ae Lee, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      Empirical Examination of Two Diagnostics of Korean Unaccusativity
    • Jan 2015
      Dissertation Committee Member
      Arum Kang, External committee member, University of Chicago
      (In)definiteness, disjunction, and anti-specificity: the view from Korean (External committee member, University of Chicago)
    • Dec 2014
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Ehsan Shafiee, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      QP Evaluation committee, Member
      Possessor Raising in Classic Persian
    • Dec 2014
      Graduate Supervised Research
      Kent Rasmussen, (Linguistics and Tesol)
      QP Evaluation committee, Member
      Anaphora in Digo”
    • Dec 2014
      Directed Individual/Independent Study
      Daniel Amy,
    • Dec 2014
      Undergraduate Honors Activities
      Jared Weide , Supervisor for Honors coursework and class paper for honors credit
      The linguistics behind humor"

Courses

      • LING 4347-001 PRAGMATICS
        (Course Id: 105305)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2021 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5347-001 PRAGMATICS
        (Course Id: 105363)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2021 Download Syllabus
      • LING 6391-022 RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS
        (Course Id: 105401)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2021
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2020
      • LING 5345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 105361)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2020 Download Syllabus
      • LING 2301-002 STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
        (Course Id: 105280)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2020 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2020
      • LING 2301-001 STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
        (Course Id: 105280)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2020 Download Syllabus
      • LING 2301-004 STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
        (Course Id: 105280)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2020 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2019
      • LING 5347-001 PRAGMATICS
        (Course Id: 105363)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2019 Download Syllabus
      • LING 2301-002 STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
        (Course Id: 105280)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2019 Download Syllabus
      • LING 4345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 111536)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2019 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 105361)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2019 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5395-001 GRADUATE INTERNSHIP
        (Course Id: 111396)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2018 Download Syllabus
      • LING 4395-001 INTERNSHIP IN TESOL
        (Course Id: 111307)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2018 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5347-001 PRAGMATICS
        (Course Id: 105363)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2018 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5393-001 TESOL TEACHING & OBSERVATION
        (Course Id: 105381)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2018
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2018
      • LING 3311-001 INTRO TO LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
        (Course Id: 105281 | Xlist Coursepre: 5300)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2018 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5300-001 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
        (Course Id: 105321 | Xlist Coursepre: 3311)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2018 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 105361)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2018 Download Syllabus
      • LING 4391-022 CONF COURSE LINGUISTICS
        (Course Id: 105313)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2017
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2017
      • LING 5395-001 GRADUATE INTERNSHIP
        (Course Id: 111396)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2017 Download Syllabus
      • LING 4395-001 INTERNSHIP IN TESOL
        (Course Id: 111307)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2017 Download Syllabus
      • LING 4303-001 SYNTAX II
        (Course Id: 105292)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2017 Download Syllabus
      • LING 6691-022 RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS
        (Course Id: 105405)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2017
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2016
      • LING 5395-001 GRADUATE INTERNSHIP
        (Course Id: 111396)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2016 Download Syllabus
      • LING 4395-001 INTERNSHIP IN TESOL
        (Course Id: 111307)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2016 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 105361)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2016 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5110-001 TESOL PRACTICUM
        (Course Id: 105318)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2016 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5393-001 TESOL TEACHING & OBSERVATION
        (Course Id: 105381)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2016 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2016
      • LING 4395-001 INTERNSHIP IN TESOL
        (Course Id: 111307)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2016 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5393-001 TESOL TEACHING & OBSERVATION
        (Course Id: 105381)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2016 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2015
      • LING 4345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 111536)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2015 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 105361)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2015 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5393-001 TESOL TEACHING & OBSERVATION
        (Course Id: 105381)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2015
      • LING 3311-001 INTRO TO LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
        (Course Id: 105281)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2015 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5300-001 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
        (Course Id: 105321)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2015 Download Syllabus
      • LING 4347-001 PRAGMATICS
        (Course Id: 105305)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2015 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5391-022 CONFERENCE COURSE
        (Course Id: 105379)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2014
      • LING 4345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 111536)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2014 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5345-001 SEMANTICS
        (Course Id: 105361)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2014 Download Syllabus
      • LING 3340-001 GRAMMAR & MORPHOLOGY
        (Course Id: 105289)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2014 Download Syllabus
      • LING 6394-001 SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS SEMINAR
        (Course Id: 111393)
        Spring - Regular Academic Session - 2014 Download Syllabus
      • LING 5335-001 UNIVERSALS & LING TYPOLOGY
        (Course Id: 105351)
        Fall - Regular Academic Session - 2013 Download Syllabus

Service to the University

    • Sept 2020 to  Present Chairperson
      Associate Chair of the Department of Linguistics & TESOL
      1. Assisting the current interim Chair of department in general.
      2. Scheduling and planning courses for the department.
      3. Organizing departmental events such as Graduate student orientation, Award ceremony, etc.
    • Sept 2019 to  Present Faculty Advisor
      Graduate Advisor for MA LING students
    • Sept 2017 to  Present Faculty Advisor
      Graduate Advisor for PhD students
      Graduate Advisor for PhD in Linguistics students
    • Aug 2016 to  Present Committee Member
      Faculty Development Leave (FDL)/REP Research Committee, CoLA
    • Sept 2014 to  Present Committee Member
      QP evaluation committee
    • Jan 2014 to  Present Committee Member
      Alumni Grant Committee
    • Jan 2014 to  Present Attendee, Graduation
      College of Liberal Arts
    • Jan 2014 to  Present Committee Member
      Edmondson Fellowship Committee
    • Jan 2014 to  Present Committee Member
      GTAs for the Burquest Award Committee
    • Jan 2014 to  Present Faculty Judge for presentations
      UTASCILT (UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL)
    • Aug 2017 to  May 2018 Committee Member
      Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Spotlight Conference Planning Committee, College of Liberal Arts (CoLA)
    • Jan 2018 to  May 2018 Faculty Liaison
      Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Spotlight Conference, College of Liberal Arts (CoLA)
    • Aug 2016 to  May 2018 Committee Member
      Undergraduate Curriculum Representative Committee, College of Liberal Arts (CoLA)
    • Sept 2013 to  Dec 2017 Department representative
      Library liaison
    • Sept 2014 to  July 2017 Program Coordinator
      Department Colloquium Series
    • Sept 2014 to  June 2017 Faculty Advisor
      Lingua: Student organization at Department of Linguistics & TESOL
    • Jan 2015 to  Dec 2016 Committee Member
      College of Liberal Arts (CoLA) Undergraduate Scholarship Committee
    • Jan 2016 to  July 2016 Student Recruiter
      Department of Linguistics & TESOL
    • Jan 2016 to  June 2016 Committee Member
      Sociophonology/Sociophonetics, tenure-track Assistant Professor search
    • Aug 2015 to  Dec 2015 Committee Member
      Budget Liaison Committee, UTA
    • Aug 2015 to  Dec 2015 University Senate Service
      Faculty Senator, UTA
    • Jan 2015 to  May 2015 Committee Member
      Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Conference abstract review Committee, College of Liberal Arts (CoLA)
    • Jan 2014 to  July 2014 Committee Member
      Scholarship Committee, CoLang 2014: Institute on Collaborative Language Research.

Service to the Profession

    • Jan 2018 to  Present
      Editorial Review Board Member
      Studies in Generative Grammar
    • Jan 2016 to  Present
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      GLOW in Asia
    • Jan 2016 to  Present
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      North East Linguistic Society
    • Jan 2015 to  Present
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
    • Jan 2012 to  Present
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics
    • Jan 2011 to  Present
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      Semantics and Linguistic Theory
    • Aug 2005 to  Present
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      The Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society
    • Mar 2020 to  May 2020
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Journal of East Asian Linguistics
    • Oct 2019 to  Oct 2019
      Reviewer, Book
      MIT Press
    • Jan 2016 to  Oct 2019
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Linguistic Inquiry (LI)
    • Jan 2015 to  Sept 2019
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Lingua
    • June 2019 to  Sept 2019
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Glossa
    • Jan 2013 to  Mar 2019
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT)
    • Apr 2018 to  Jan 2019
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Linguistics
    • May 2018 to  June 2018
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Studies in Generative Grammar
    • Jan 2012 to  June 2018
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      Japanese Korean Linguistics
    • Jan 2016 to  Apr 2018
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Language Sciences
    • Jan 2016 to  Feb 2018
      Reviewer, Conference Paper
      West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
    • Jan 2016 to  July 2017
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Korean Linguistics
    • Jan 2017 to  June 2017
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Journal of Linguistics
    • Jan 2017 to  June 2017
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Philosophical Psychology
    • Jan 2016 to  June 2017
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America)
    • Jan 2017 to  May 2017
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Journal of Pragmatics
    • Jan 2017 to  Apr 2017
      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Journal of Semantics
    • Sept 2016 to  Dec 2016
      Reviewer, Book
      Cambridge University Press
      The Structure of Korean: Minimalist Syntax and mentalist semantics
    • Nov 2014 to  Jan 2015
      Reviewer, Book
      Cambridge University Press
      Lexical and Syntactic Constructions in Korean Syntactic and Semantic Constructions in Korean
    • July 2013 to  Jan 2014
      Reviewer, Book
      Springer
      Contrastiveness and scalar implicatures .eds. Chungmin Lee, Ferenc Kiefer, and Manfred Krifka
    • Jan 2012 to  June 2012
      Reviewer, Book
      Cambridge Scholars Publishing
      Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally eds. by Christin Béal, Kerry Mullan and BertPeeters
    • May 2009 to  Nov 2009
      Reviewer, Book
      John Benjamins Publishing Co.
    • Aug 2009 to  Oct 2009
      Conference-Related (Chicago, Illinois,
      The 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics
      The 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics
    • July 2009 to  Oct 2009
      Workshop Organizer
      The 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics
    • Mar 2009 to  Aug 2009
      Reviewer, Book
      John Benjamins
      Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian(ICSH8), eds. By Marcel den Dikken and Robert Vago
    • Past to  2008
      Conference-Related (Chicago, Illinois,
      American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)
    • June 2008 to  Sept 2008
      Workshop Organizer
      American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)
    • Aug 2006 to  Aug 2007
      Officer, Secretary
      The Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society
    • Aug 2006 to  May 2007
      Workshop Organizer
      The 43rd Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society