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Dr. Jiyoung Yoon Assistant Professor Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics, Indiana University 2002 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of North Texas P. O. Box 311127 Denton, TX 76203-1127 E-mail: jyyoon@unt.edu Office phone: (940) 565-3950 Fax: (940) 565-2581

Specializations

Hispanic Linguistics (Functional Syntax and Semantics)

Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Instruction and Pedagogy)

Research Interests: Functional Syntax and Semantics Construction Grammar Cognitive Linguistics Second Language Acquisition Foreign Language Instruction/Pedagogy

Other Links: Department of Linguistics Construction Grammar

Functional approaches to Spanish syntax: Lexical semantics, discourse, and transitivity (co-edited with J. Clancy Clements). London: Palgrave-Macmillan (2005)

Selected Publications

Books

Jiyoung Yoon. 2007. Small clauses in Spanish: The semantics of transitivity. Munich: LINCOM publisher. 183 pages.

Clements, J. Clancy and Jiyoung Yoon (eds). 2005. Functional Approaches to Spanish Syntax: Lexical Semantics, Discourse, and Transitivity. New York / London: Palgrave Macmillan. xiv + 305 pages.

Articles/Book Chapters

Yoon, Jiyoung. In press. Constructional meanings of verb-noun compounds in Spanish: limpiabotas vs. tientaparedes. To appear in Language Sciences.

Yoon, Jiyoung. 2005. Juan salió contento: Semantic constraints on small clauses in adjunct position. Functional Approaches to Spanish Syntax: Lexical Semantics, Discourse and Transitivity, ed. by J. Clancy Clements and Jiyoung Yoon, 265-277. New York / London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Clements, J. Clancy and Jiyoung Yoon. 2005. Introduction. Functional Approaches to Spanish Syntax: Lexical Semantics, Discourse and Transitivity, ed. by J. Clancy Clements and Jiyoung Yoon, 1-6. New York / London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Yoon, Jiyoung. 2004 (actually publ. 2005). Las técnicas de INDIVIDUACION e IDENTIFICACION en coreano y español: Análisis contrastivo. Función. Vols. 21-24: 279-337.

Yoon, Jiyoung. 2004. Infinitival complement constructions in Spanish: A Construction Grammar approach. Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics. Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 258), ed. by Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements, and Barbara Vance, 381-397. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Endo, Yoshio, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, and Jiyoung Yoon. 2000. Smaller clauses. Proceedings of the Second GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) in Asia: 73-95.