The 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference - August 9

Aug 9, 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.

Sunday, August 9

Conference Sessions at Lincoln Hall 1092

8:30 – 9:00 Registration / Coffee

9:00 – 10:00 PLENARY SPEAKER

Functional Affinity between Conjunction and Disjunction: Historical Crossover in Korean
Minju Kim, Claremont McKenna College
Introduction: Isela Silvera, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

10:00 – 10:20 Break

Session 5: Syntax / Semantics (functional) and Grammaticalization
Chair: Rolf Pelkey (UIUC)

10:20 – 10:50 Direct Quotative Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Korean: A Contrastive Study with Japanese
Kaoru Horie, 1Aichi University
Jaehyun Lee, Kansai University
Ryota Hosoya, Keio University
Daisuke Izumi, Kyoto Women’s University

10:50 – 11:20 From Demonstrative to Interrogative Pragmatic Marker: The Case of urï in the Sani Dialect of Amami Ryukyuan
Rihito Shirata, Hiroshima University

11:20 – 11:50 Perspective Extension in Japanese and Korean Desideratives: -tai and -ko siphta
Jihyun Kim, University of Miyazaki
Takeshi Koguma, Kanazawa University
Katsunobu Izutsu, Hokkaido University of Education

11:50 – 12:20 What the Mind Can Do with ‘STRONG’: The Case of Subjectification in KSL and Beyond
Youngju Choi, Chosun University
Seongha Rhee, Maidol University; Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

12:20 – 2:00 Lunch on your own

Session 6: Phonetics / Phonology
Chair: Iris Aque, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2:00 – 2:30 Gestural Coordination and the Emergence of the Labial-palatal Glide in Korean
Jiwon Hwang, Stony Brook University
Sejin Oh, Jeju National University
Jason Shaw, Yale University

2:30 – 3:00 Microvariation and Productivity of Morpho-Phonological Processes in Okinoerabu Ryukyuan
Aidan Coleman, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Trevor Slevin, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Yumi Standlee, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Shin Fukuda, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Akiko Yokoyama, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Masahiro Yamamada, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

3:00 – 3:30 Articulatory Evidence of Complete Merger between Korean Vowels /e/–/ɛ/
Shu-Wei Yang, Jinho Kang, Mina Cho, Jiwon Lee, Beomjoon Park, and Minn Kim, Seoul National University

3:30 – 3:40 Coffee break

Session 7: Discourse / Conversation Analysis
Chair: Sibel Arikoglu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

3:40 – 4:10 Comparative Analysis of the Discourse Particles -jan in Japanese and -canha in Korean
Shigeto Kamano and Jiwon Yun, Stony Brook University

4:10 – 4:40 Initiating Interaction in Korean Text Messaging: A Conversation Analytic Study of Opening Turns
Kyung-Eun Yoon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

4:40-4:50 Final Remarks, End of Conference
James Yoon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


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