Jaehoon Yeon

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jaehoon Yeon is involved.

Journal

Korean Linguistics

Edited by Lucien Brown

ISSN 0257-3784 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9731

Park, Chongwon, Jaehoon Yeon and Jong-Bok Kim 2025 Setting subject and the inferential cleft construction in Korean Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Granvik, Anton, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä (eds.), pp. 634–665 | Article

This article aims to develop a cognitive-functional analysis of the Korean inferential cleft construction (ICC) by identifying two motivations. It is demonstrated that the ICC must be understood as a mechanism to improve coherence and relevance in the text; it is first and foremost motivated to… read more

Park, Chongwon and Jaehoon Yeon 2024 Notes on word order variation in Korean Pragmatics 34:4, pp. 588–614 | Article

This article aims to develop an analysis of scrambling or word order variation in Korean from a pragmatic/cognitive perspective. Although extensive research has been carried out on this issue, most extant research attempts to provide analyses of the phenomenon by identifying grammatical features… read more

Park, Chongwon and Jaehoon Yeon 2023 The Factive, IHRC, and Cleft constructions in Korean Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 140–177 | Article

This article aims to develop a Cognitive Grammar (CG) analysis of three grammatical constructions in Korean, all of which employ the bound noun kes. The data under examination includes the Factive, Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC), and Cleft constructions. We propose a uniform treatment… read more

Yeon, Jaehoon 2009 Review of Næss (2007): Prototypical Transitivity Studies in Language 33:1, pp. 233–239 | Review

Yeon, Jaehoon 1998 A Typological Study on the Grammatical Encoding of the Causee in Causative Constructions Korean Linguistics 9, pp. 211–230 | Article

The causative introduces an external agent into the clausal structure. When an additional agent is introduced into the event, and when it is construed as the agent ultimately responsible for the occurrence of the event, then this ultimate agent is encoded as the subject, and the one that is less… read more