Lucien Brown is Senior Lecturer of Korean Studies at the Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include socio-pragmatics and politeness, as well as second language acquisition. He is the author of Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Language Learning (2011) and the co-author of Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar (with J. Yeon, 2011). Jaehoon Yeon is Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics at SOAS, University of London, UK. His research areas include functional-typological linguistics, Korean morpho-syntax, and grammatical constructions. He is the author of Korean Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning (2003), Get Started in Korean (2013), and co-author of Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar (with L. Brown, 2011).

“The first volume of its kind, students and scholars will be delighted with this comprehensive guide to a wide range of topics in Korean linguistics. The authorial team represents the very best scholarship today, including senior scholars and a younger generation of researchers, both breaking new ground in emerging areas like linguistic politeness, language acquisition, and linguistic anthropology.”Ross King, University of British Columbia, Canada“Rich in information and delightfully readable, this book includes an amazing array of topics, analyses, and authors. An unprecedented primer on the structure of the Korean language, it also introduces general linguistic theory and approaches to the study of language.”Young-Key Kim-Renaud, George Washington University, USA

• Notes on Contributors viiEditors’ Note xiNote on Transcriptions xiiPart I The Sounds of Korean 11 Vowels and Consonants 3Jiyoung Shin2 Syllable‐Based Phonological Processes 22Young‐Mee Yu Cho3 Prosody 41Hae‐Sung JeonPart II Topics in Korean Morphology and Syntax 594 Word Formation 61Chung‐Kon Shi5 Double Nominative and Double Accusative Constructions 79James Hye Suk Yoon6 Causatives 98Jae Jung Song7 Passives 116Jaehoon Yeon8 Anaphora and Binding 137Sean MadiganPart III Syntax, Semantics, and their Interface 1559 Lexical Semantics: Lexicon‐Syntax Interface 157Seungho Nam10 Focus, Topic, and Contrast 179Youngchul Jun11 Case Particle Ellipsis 196Hanjung Lee12 Negation and Negative Polarity Items 212Peter Sells13 Tense and Aspect 232Hyo Sang Lee14 Modality 249Hyo Sang LeePart IV Discourse, Pragmatics, and Grammaticalization 26915 Conversation Analysis 271Stephanie Hyeri Kim and Kyu‐hyun Kim16 Korean Discourse Structure 287Shin Ja J. Hwang17 Honorifics and Politeness 303Lucien Brown18 Grammaticalization 320Sung‐Ock S. SohnPart V Language Acquisition 33719 First Language Acquisition 339Soonja Choi20 Second Language Acquisition: Syntax 355William O’Grady and Myong Hee Choi21 Second Language Acquisition: Phonology 373Jeong‐Young Kim22 Second Language Acquisition: Pragmatics 389Andrew Sangpil Byon23 Social Aspects of Korean as a Heritage Language 405M. Agnes KangPart VI Varieties of Korean 41924 Old Korean 421John Whitman25 Middle Korean and Pre‐Modern Korean 439Ho‐Min Sohn26 Varieties of Contemporary Korean 459Lucien Brown and Jaehoon Yeon27 Language Policies in North and South Korea 477Jae Jung Song28 Linguistic Emblems of South Korean Society 492Nicholas HarknessIndex 509