Miok D. Pak

박미옥 

 

Educational Background:

B.A. in English language and Literatures, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea; M.A. in English Linguistics, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea; Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics, Georgetown university, Washington DC in 2001 

Research Appointment:

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Georgetown University, 2003-2005 

Teaching experience:

Ewha Woman’s University, Georgetown University, The George Washington University, Northern Virginia Community College (English Reading Comprehension, Korean, Introduction to Language, Language and Brain, Readings in Modern Korean) 

Recent Publications:

Pak, M. To appear. Agreement and the Subjects of Jussive Clauses in Korean. In the proceedings of 37^th North East Linguistic Society. (joint work with Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini) 

Pak, M. 2006. Agreement in Korean Syntax: A Case of Sentence Final Particles. Susumo Kuno et al. (eds.) Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics XI. p. 548-561. Seoul. Hanshin. (Joint work with Kim-Renaud, Young-Key) 

Pak, M. 2006. Jussive Clauses and Agreement of Sentence Final Particles in Korean. Vance, Tim and J. Kim (eds.), Japanese/Korean Conference 14. p. 295-306.  

Pak, M. 2005. Clause Typing in Imperatives: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Brandstetter, C. and D. Rus (eds.), Georgetown University Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics. (Joint work with Simon Mauck, Paul Portner, and Raffaella Zanuttini) 

Research interest:

Research area includes syntax, semantics, morphology, pedagogy, and second language acquisition. Current research is on Clause types, specifically imperatives, exhortatives, and promissives in Korean. I am currently working on a paper on syntax and semantics of Korean clause type Jussives with Profs. Raffaella Zanuttini and Paul Portner at Georgetown University.