The 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference - August 8

Aug 8, 2026   All Day
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Main Conference Talks: Lincoln Hall Room 1092 | Poster Sessions: LCLB Atrium & Lucy Ellis Lounge | Conference Banquet: Illini Union Room AB)
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Department of Linguistics, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Second Language Acquisition & Teacher Education (SLATE), School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS), Center for Advanced Study (CAS), Illinois International Programs (IIP), European Union Center, Russian, East European, & Eurasian Center, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Philosophy, School of Information Sciences, and The Grainger College of Engineering
Cost
Free for UIUC Students and Faculty | $60 Fee for Visiting Students | $140 Fee for Visiting Faculty | *Visit the Registration Page for Discount Information*
Registration
Registration
E-Mail
jkconference33@gmail.com
Originating Calendar
CEAPS Events Calendar

The 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from August 7 to August 9, with a pre-conference workshop/tutorial planned for August 6, 2026.

Visit the Official JK33 Website to view the latest schedule and presentation materials.

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Conference Sessions at Lincoln Hall 1092

8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration / Coffee

9:00-10:00 a.m. Plenary Speaker

Fake Nouns: The Attributive vs. Referential Dichotomy
Dorothy Ahn, Rutgers University

10:00-10:20 a.m. Break

Session 3: Language Acquisition and Processing
Chair: Chae Eun Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

10:20-10:50 a.m.
Beyond Adjectives: A Corpus-Based Investigation of -ideshita Overgeneralization
Ludan Yang, Indiana University Bloomington

10:50-11:20 a.m.
Simple Scrambling in Korean: Evidence of Late-Stage Processing from Eye-Tracking
Michael Mansbridge, Independent Researcher

11:20-11:50 a.m.
Morphosyntactic Cues Drive Verb Prediction in Korean: Evidence from Eye-Tracking and ERPs
Sea Hee Choi, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Nayoung Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
James Yoon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Japanese Children's Interpretation of Disjunction in Ignorance Contexts
Kotona Takada, Ochanomizu University

12:20-2:00 p.m. Lunch on Your Own

2:00-3:30 p.m. Poster Session 2 (LCLB Atrium & Lucy Ellis Lounge)

3:30-3:40 p.m. Break

Session 4: Syntax / Semantics (Formal and Experimental)
Chair: Jason Walton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

3:40-4:10 p.m.
Discontinuous Negation and Scope Interpretation in the Toyama Dialect: A Reanalysis of the Negative Element Nan 
Midori Hayashi, Chukyo University

4:10-4:40 p.m.
Reanalyzing the Japanese ECM Construction as a Serial Verb Construction
Taika Nagano, The University of Osaka

4:40-5:10 p.m.
Sino-Korean Loanword Integration: Consequences for the Morpho-syntactic Interface
Nikolas Webster, University of California, Santa Cruz

5:10-5:40 p.m.
Morphosyntactic Permissiveness and Constraints: A Case of Korean-Japanese Bilinguals' Processing of Dative Construction
Gyu-Ho Shin, University of Illinois Chicago
Jeong Eun Shin, University of Tsukuba

6:00-8:00 p.m.
Conference Banquet (Illini Union Room AB)

Poster Session 2 (2:00 – 3:30 pm) at LCLB Atrium & Lucy Ellis Lounge

Quirky Subjects in Korean Psych Constructions: A Case-based Analysis
Ashley Hee-Yeon Kim, University of Delaware

On the Constraint on Multiple Causatives in Japanese and Korean
Hiroshi Aoyagi, Nanzan University

Incomplete Neutralization: Hybrid Phonemic Representations of Word-final Unreleased Stops in the Ei Dialect of Kagoshima Japanese
Marco Scotto di Clemente, Kyushu University

Applying Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling to Sign Language Assessment: Diagnosing Beginning-Level Korean Sign Language Proficiency
Sae Il Choi, Chosun University

Experimental Study of the Structures and Scope Interactions of Japanese Ditransitive Constructions
Sakura Oka and Kyoko Yamakoshi, Ochanomizu University

An Analysis of Humor Type and Humor Competency in Japanese Language Learners
Leah Allan, Ohio University

Borrowed Grammatical Elements in Korean Neologism Formation: Reanalysis and Morphological Productivity under Language Contact
Eunhye Kim, Seoul National University

On the Syntax of PP-oriented Depictives in Japanese
Ryoya Saito, Kobe University

Hai hai hai “yes yes yes” as an Interactional Resource for Epistemic Management
Yuki Arita, Pomona College

Negative Polar Questions and Bias in Korean
Youn-Gyu Park, University of Texas at Austin

Genitive-marked ECM Subjects under Nominalization
 Ryuta Ono, University of Connecticut

Moving Beyond the Mora-Syllable Dichotomy in Japonic Linguistics: Evidence from Tsugaru Dialect
Max Monson, Kyushu University

Polite Forms in Solitude Speech: Dialogicity and Ritualization*
Mitsuko Izutsu, Fuji Women's University
Katsunobu Izutsu, Hokkaido University of Education

Incorporating Interaction into Construction Grammar: Evidence from the Korean [X-i/ka Xhata] Construction*
Hanbeom Jung, University of California, Los Angeles

On the Morphosyntax of -hi and -e ci
Martine Gallardo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Japanese Clefts and Inter-Speaker Variation in Island Effects: An Acceptability Judgment Study*
Shin Fukuda, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Hajime Ono, International Christian University

*: Alternate Oral Presentation


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