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Kang, Arum. 2025. Definiteness and Ambiguity in Donkey Sentences: A Comparative Study in Korean and Mandarin Chinese.
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2024. Subjunctive Mood in Korean: Mood Choice and Nonveridicality.
Kang, Arum and Sanghoun Song (in progress). Subjunctive Predicates: Corpus and Experimental Studies.

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2026
Lee, Juwon and Arum Kang. 2026. A Comparative Study of Degree Adverbs and Emphatic Adverbs in Sentiment Polarity (정도 부사와 사실강조 부사의 감성 극성 비교 연구: 감성 분석 말뭉치를 기반으로). 언어 51(1): 181–208. doi
2025
Lee, Yebin, Sanghoun Song and Arum Kang. 2025. Assessing GPT Models' Sensitivity to Epistemic Meanings in Korean Periphrastic Construction. Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 39), pp. 84–93. pdf
Kang, Arum and Sanghoun Song. 2025. Mood Selection in Korean Embedded Interrogatives: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Attitude Predicates and Complementizers (한국어 의문 내포문의 서법 선택: 태도 술어와 보문소의 결합의 코퍼스 기반 분석). 언어 50(3): 835–861. doi
Kang, Arum and Youngju Choi. 2025. On the Scalarity of STRONG in KSL. Proceedings of the 36th Western Conference on Linguistics: 58–65. pdf
Kang, Arum. 2025. Exclamation and polarity focus in Korean rhetorical questions (한국어 수사의문문에서 감탄의 조건과 극성 초점). 언어연구 41(1): 7–25. doi
Kang, Arum. 2025. The Semantic of Tunci: Choice, Indifference, and Unconditionality ('든지'의 의미 분석: 선택, 무관 그리고 무조건성). 언어와 정보 29(1): 49–70. doi
Kang, Arum. 2025. Factivity Alternation and Modal Spread in Korean: The Interaction of Modalized Questions and Expletive Negation in the -(u)n kes-i ani-lkka Construction ('-은 것이 아닐까' 구문의 사실성 교체와 양태 확산 — 양태 의문문과 허사 부정의 상호작용 —). 언어학 101: 115–145. doi
Kang, Arum. 2025. Embedded high negation polar questions in Korean: Constraints and interaction with attitude predicates (한국어 내포 상위 부정 가부의문문의 결합 제약: 태도 술어와의 상호작용 분석). 언어학 33(1): 1–22. doi
Kang, Arum. 2025. High Negation Polar Questions in Korean: A Unified Pragmatic Analysis of Rising and Falling Intonation (한국어 상위 부정 가부의문문: 상승과 하강 어조의 통합적 화용 의미 분석). 현대문법연구 125: 1–26. doi
Lee, Gyubin and Arum Kang. 2025. Generational Differences in Korean Color Term Categorization and Their Effects on Perceptual Responses: A Focus on Gonsaek and Namsaek (한국어 색채어 범주의 세대 간 차이와 인지 반응의 상관관계 연구: '곤색'과 '남색' 사용을 중심으로). 언어 50(1): 207–230. doi
Ahn, Eunsong and Arum Kang. 2025. A study on the Linguistic Characteristics of K-pop Lyrics in Response to Changes in the Digital Medial Environment - Focusing on Analysis by Idol Generations (디지털 미디어 환경 변화에 따른 케이팝 가사의 언어적 특성 연구 - 아이돌 세대별 분석을 중심으로 - ). 인문학연구 64(1): 57–84. doi
Kang, Arum and Youngsuk Song. 2025. Definitness in Korean and Chinese: A comparative study using Corefernce Resolution and AI translation (인공지능 기계 번역과 상호참조해결 말뭉치를 활용한 한국어와 중국어 한정성 비교 연구). 생성문법연구 35(1): 119–141. doi
Kang, Arum. 2025. Between Questions and Anti-specificity: The Evolution of Korean Wh-indefinites. 담화와 인지 32(1): 107–130. doi
2024
Kang, Arum. 2024. A study on rhetorical questions in Korean: From the view of Verum Focus (한국어 수사 의문문 분석: 진리치 초점의 관점에서). 언어와 언어학 105: 1–30. doi
Kang, Arum. 2024. "Chicken is Whatever": Interaction with Concessive Conditional, Epistemic Modal and Negative Polarity ("치킨 is 뭔들": 양보 조건, 인식 양태, 부정 극성의 상호 작용). 현대문법연구 122: 73–98. doi
Kang, Arum and Yong-hun Lee. 2024. A Study on the Quantificational Interpretation of Donkey Phrase in English: Utilizing Next Sentence Prediction with BERT. 언어연구 40(1): 21–38. doi
Park, Myung-Kwan and Arum Kang. 2024. Anaphoric Definites without a Determiner: Korean vs. Chinese. Journal of Cognitive Science 25(1): 67–124. doi
Kang, Arum. 2024. Strengthening effect of wh-so-ever unconditional: Interaction between focus and concessiveness (wh-so-ever 무조건문의 화용적 강조: 초점과 양보 효과). 영어학 24: 194–210. doi
2023
Kang, Arum and Yong-hun Lee. 2023. A study of discourse anaphora and definite NP in Korean: Utilizing deep learning models and neural machine translations (딥러닝 언어 모델과 인공신경망 기계 번역을 활용한 담화 조응 현상과 한정 명사구 연구). 언어학 31: 1–34. doi
Kang, Arum. 2023. A study on degree adverbs in Korean using Word2Vec (Word2Vec을 활용한 한국어 정도부사의 의미 분석에 대한 연구). 언어과학연구 106: 77–134. doi
Kang, Arum. 2023. The Study on the Modifier Noun wancen as a Degree Modifier (관형 명사 '완전'의 부사적 용법). 생성문법연구 23(3): 333–353. doi
Kang, Arum and Yong-hun Lee. 2023. A Study of Polarity Items through Word2Vec: wh-so-ever vs. any. 영어영문학연구 65(2): 63–90. doi
Kang, Arum. 2023. Semantic Analysis on Two Subtypes of Disjunctive in Korean: ina and inka (한국어 이접 표지자 '이나'와 '인가'의 의미 분석). 언어학 연구 67: 103–127. doi
Kang, Arum. 2023. Definite Interpretation of Korean Bare Nouns in Donkey Sentence (한국어 민명사의 한정적 해석: 당나귀 구문을 중심으로). 언어 48(1): 75–97. doi
2022
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
Shin, Unsub, Arum Kang and Sanghoun Song. 2022. A Data-based Analysis of Entailment-canceling Operator in Korean. 언어학 연구 65: 113–148. doi
Kang, Arum. 2022. On the Interrelationship between Epistemic Future and Epistemic Modality: The Case of -(u)l kes-i (미래 시제와 인식 양태의 통합적 분석: '(으)ㄹ 것이'). 생성문법연구 32(4): 605–629. doi
Kang, Arum. 2022. On the Study of the Adverb wancen (부사 '완전' 분석). 언어연구 38(3): 239–258. doi
Park, Dongwoo and Arum Kang. 2022. 『영어학의 이해』. 한국방송통신대학교출판문화원.
2021
Kang, Arum. 2021. An Analysis of the Scalar Focus Operator kkaci ‘even; up to’ in Korean: A Scale on Pragmatic Strength and Widened Domain (초점 보조사 '까지'의 역할: 화용적 척도와 영역 확장). 언어 46(4): 1065–1086. doi
Kang, Arum and Sanghoun Song. 2021. Semantic properties of irralis mood in question: non-veridicality and non-factivity (의문 보문소로서의 'ㄹ지': 상위 술어의 (비)진실성과 (비)사실성). 언어와 언어학 92: 79–106. 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
Jeong, Yunam and Arum Kang. 2021. Realization of ku in Korean: Conceptual Links among the Subcategorizations (한국어 '그'의 실현 양상과 개념적 연관). 담화와 인지 28(1): 259–288. doi
2020
Kang, Arum. 2020. On modal determiner ku in Korean (한국어 양태 한정사에 대한 소고). 언어 45(4): 725–745. doi
Ahn, Miyeon and Arum Kang. 2020. The Prosody of Wh- and Rhetorical Questions in Korean. 음운음성형태론 연구 26(3), 503-522. doi
Park, Myung-Kwan and Arum Kang. 2020. Korean vs. Chinese on Anaphoric Definites with(out) a Determiner. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 27.
Park, Myung-Kwan and Arum Kang. 2020. The Rhetorical Adjunct Wh Mwue(-l) 'what' in Korean. 언어과학연구 95, 87-209. doi
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2020. From Anti-specificity to Anti-honorification: Conventional Implicature of Disjunction inka in Korean. Linguistic Research 37(3): 531–580. doi
Park, Myung-Kwan and Arum Kang. 2020. (In)definiteness in Korean without an Article. 언어 45(3): 451–475. doi
Kang, Arum. 2020. Korean ku Revisited: Polarity, Maximality, and Domain Restriction (한국어 '그'의 재고찰: 극성, 최대성 그리고 영역 제한). In 『한국어 영논항을 어떻게 볼 것인가』, 293–325. 역락출판사.
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2020. From Inquisitive Disjunction to Nonveridical Equilibrium: Modalized Questions in Korean doi. Linguistics 58(1): 207–244. doi
2019
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2019. The Subjunctive Complementizer in Korean. Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XII and the 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG XXI), 343–358. slides
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2019. Modalized Questions in Korean. Studies in Generative Grammar (생성문법연구) 29(3): 459–483. doi
Kang, Arum and Sohee Kim. 2019. Studies on the polarity aspect of Korean adverb kulehkey (부사 '그렇게'의 극성 연구). 언어 44(2): 145–169. doi
2018
Kang, Arum and Jieun Jeon. 2018. On the Novel Type of Subjunctive Complementizer in Korean. 언어정보 27: 69–88. doi
Kang, Arum. 2018. Negative Politeness in Korean Questions. 어학연구 54(2): 229–247. doi
Kang, Arum. 2018. The Scalar Intensifier ku in Korean. 언어와 정보 22(1): 75–91. doi
Kang, Arum. 2018. Unexpectedness Effect: The Emphatic Determiner with Gradable NPs in Korean. 언어연구 33(4): 595–615. doi
Kang, Arum. 2018. The Anti-honorific Marker inka in Multi-dimensional Composition System. 언어학 연구 46: 287–312. doi
2017
Kang, Arum. 2017. Epistemic Constraint on the Modal Disjunctive Particle in Korean. 한국어 의미학 57: 49–72. doi
Kang, Arum. 2017. The Scalar Dimension of Korean ku. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 24. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
2016
Kang, Arum. 2016. On the Semantics of Korean Modalized Question. Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 30), pp. 477–484.
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2016. Individual and Propositional Variation in Disjunction. Proceedings of the 18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 18).
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2016. Two Types of Speaker's Ignorance over the Epistemic Space in Korean. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 1(21): 1–15. doi
Kang, Arum. 2016. A Novel Wh-indeterminate in Korean: wh-inka as a Marker of Referential Vagueness. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 23, pp. 183–196. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
2012
Kang, Arum. 2012. Semantics and Pragmatics of Definiteness in Korean: The Case of ku. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 8), pp. 187–198. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
2011
Kang, Arum. 2011. On the Semantic Role of the Accented Phrase in Korean NP Coordination. Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics <(WCCFL 28)/a>, pp. 294–302. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Edited Volume
Abrego-Collier, Carissa, Arum Kang, Martina Martinovic and Chieu Nguyen (eds.) . 2014. CLS 47, Vols. 1–2. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.