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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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