Arum Kang 강아름

Formal Semantics · Pragmatics · Korean Linguistics
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Chungnam National University
arkang [at] cnu.ac.kr
Arum Kang

About

My research focuses on the semantics and pragmatics of Korean, particularly modalized questions, disjunction, mood, complementizers, definiteness, and rhetorical meaning. I also work on corpus-based approaches to semantic and pragmatic inference, theoretically informed evaluation of language models, and Korean Sign Language semantics.

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Chicago (2015).

Selected Publications

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Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2020. From Inquisitive Disjunction to Nonveridical Equilibrium: Modalized Questions in Korean. Linguistics 58(1): 207–244. doi
Kang, Arum. 2021. Marking Definiteness in an Articleless Language: The Role of the Domain Restrictor KU in Korean. Language and Linguistics 22(2): 301–336. pdf
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2022. Two Types of Subjunctive in Korean: Interaction between Inquisitiveness and Nonveridicality. Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 14: 113–133. slides proceedings
Park, Myung-Kwan and Arum Kang. 2024. Anaphoric Definites without a Determiner: Korean vs. Chinese. Journal of Cognitive Science 25(1): 67–124. doi

Recent News & Events

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Jan 2027 LSA 2027 Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Oct 2026 Invited talk, KSLI Fall Conference, Hanbat National University
Aug 2026 Invited talk, SICOGG 28, Chungnam National University
Jun 2026 Two papers at EAPC 2026, Ajou University
Mar 2026 TaLK 2026, Keio University
2025 NRF grant: The Structure of Rhetorical Questions and Commonsense Reasoning in Conversation (2025–2027)
2025 WCCFL 43, University of Washington. LingBuzz