The contributors for Selected Papers from the 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics (ECKL) discuss various aspects of Korean Linguistics, including historical linguistics, syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, phonetics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and language teaching. All the papers were presented at the 2nd ECKL, held in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London in 2008.

Jaehoon Yeon is Reader in Korean language at SOAS and Jieun Kiaer is a University Lecturer in Korean Language and Linguistics, at the University of Oxford.

Contents

Preface

Key note Speech:

1 Two Types of Denominal Predicates in Korean and Theories of Morphology-Syntax Interface: James Hye-Suk Yoon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

General Session:

2 Use of Referent Honorific Lexical Substitutions by Korean University Students, Lucien Brown (School of Oriental and African Studies)

3 From the acoustics to the phonology of the accentual phrase in Korean read speech: Tonal patterns and boundary, Hyongsil CHO (LPL, Université de Provence)

4 L2 acquisition of polarity items: the case of Korean-English interlanguage Kook-Hee Gill Heather Marsden (University of Sheffield University of York)

5 Difficulties encountered in the construction of a Korean bilingual dictionary and their - the case of the New Korean-French Dictionary: Guillaume Jeanmaire (Korea University, Seoul)

6 A Phonetic Study on Phrasing in Seoul Korean, Hae-Sung Jeon (University of Cambridge)

7 A Classification of Korean Support Verbs, Mihwa JO (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

8 Multiple –ka Construction and Performance-Grammar Correspondence, Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford)

9 A Historical Corpus-Based Approach to Korean Logophor Caki, Sun-Hee Lee and Yelee-An (Wellesley College, Yonsei University)

10 The Syntax of Inchoativity- -eci, event structure, and scalarity: Dongsik Lim and Maria-Luisa Zubizarreta (University of Southern California)

11 Korean –cocha ‘even’ and Japanese –sae ‘even’, Eun-Hae Park, (University of Chicago)

12 Licensing Double Nominative Constructions in Korean,Jisung Sun (SUNY Stony Brook)

13 Upstep and Constituent Length in Daegu Korean: A Preliminary Report, Akira Utsugi and Hyejin Jang (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad/University of Edinburgh, Korea University)

14 Constraints on Double-Accusative External Possession Constructions in Korean: A Cognitive approach, Jaehoon Yeon, (School of Oriental and African Studies)