Suwon Yoon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Suwon Yoon is involved.
Articles
2024 The syntax of Korean reduced conditionals: Right edge and pronominalization Language and Linguistics 25:4, pp. 747–784 | Article
The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of two important aspects of conditional clauses in Korean. The first goal is to reveal the structure of the conditional clause. In investigating reduced conditionals and regular copula clausal conditionals, we suggest the right-periphery of… read more
2021 Positively bitter and negatively sweet? Conventional implicatures and compatibility condition of emotive taste terms in Korean vs. English Pragmatics 31:2, pp. 303–329 | Article
The goal of this study is to propose a pragmatic analysis of what we call Emotive Taste Terms (ETTs) in Korean, compared to English. What makes Korean taste adjectives special is its multidimensional meaning: In descriptive dimension, (i) the literal meaning concerns the taste; or (ii) it can be… read more