Young-mee Yu Cho

List of John Benjamins publications for which Young-mee Yu Cho plays a role.

Korean and Japanese are typical classifier languages that classify a noun based on the semantic type of its referent with a counter word when plurality is involved. Their plural marking appears to be optional when the noun denotes general plurality, but obligatory when a noun is marked by the… read more
Lee, Kiri and Young-mee Yu Cho 2015 Social meanings of honorific / non-honorific alternations in Korean and JapaneseHonorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean, Whitman, John and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 207–241 | Article
The use of honorifics in Korean and Japanese is generally dictated by social factors such as age, status, and gender (Sohn 1999, Kuno 1987). Honorifics are marked by a well-defined repertoire of linguistic elements, including address-terms, specialized vocabulary, and verbal suffixes. Depending on… read more
Cho, Young-mee Yu 2013 Review of Kim-Renaud (2009): Korean: An Essential GrammarKorean Linguistics 15:1, pp. 119–121 | Review
This study examines the nominal address terms in Korean and Japanese and argues that the notion of ‘Intimacy’ plays a crucial role in choosing an appropriate nominal address term in both languages. In the past several decades, a long list of researchers working in diverse languages have evaluated… read more
Cho, Young-mee Yu 1998 Language change as reranking of constraintsHistorical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 45–62 | Article