I graduated from the Penn Linguistics Department in August 2008
and have recently joined the faculty of the Emory Program in Linguistics. I am also directing Emory's new Structured Independent Language Study program.
EMAIL mgpak at emory.edu | CURRICULUM VITA
- The postsyntactic derivation and its phonological reflexes Completed July 2008. Committee: David Embick (supervisor), Mark Liberman, Rolf Noyer. [pdf] (1.4MB)
Recent papers and projects:
- A-movement locality and intervention effects in Luganda
In Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 2008, ed. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop, pp. 361-369. [paper]
- Clause size and relativization in Luganda
Presented at the Movement and Word Order in Bantu Conference, Leiden, March 2008
- Symmetrical passives and EPP in Bantu
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 2008
- Relative clauses without CPs in Luganda
Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2007), University of California, San Diego, Dec. 2007 [paper]
- Clause size and phonological domains in Huave and Luganda Presented at the 3rd Syntax-Phonology Interface in the Northeast (SPINE-3) Workshop, Cornell University, May 2007
- Phrasal tone domains in San Mateo Huave (2007)
Based on fieldwork in San Mateo del Mar, Mexico, supervised by Rolf Noyer, July 2006. To appear in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
[paper] | [about huave]
- The structural conditions on two types of phrasal rules
Presented at the 2nd Syntax-Phonology Interface in the Northeast (SPINE-2) Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2006
- French phrasal phonology in a derivational model of PF
(M. Pak and M. Friesner) In Proceedings of NELS 36, vol. 2, 2006, ed. Christopher Davis et al., pp. 480-491. [paper] | [poster]
- Non-subject gaps in the Old English to-infinitive
Presented at Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL 4), September 2005
- Explaining branchingness effects in phrasal phonology
In Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 2005, ed. John Alderete et al., pp. 308-316. [paper]
- Infinitive marking with for: a diachronic account
Presented at the 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. In Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12.1, 2006, pp. 293-306. [paper]
- The history
of the English infinitive: some implications for the theory of grammar and
grammar change
(A. Kroch and M. Pak) Presented by Anthony Kroch at the Workshop on Germanic Infinitives, Konstanz, September 2004
- LING-340S-001: Linguistic Variation and Change
(Emory College, Fall 2008)
- LIN120: Sociolinguistics
(Franklin and Marshall College, Spring 2008)
- LING-001-601: Introduction to Linguistics
(UPenn College of General Studies, Fall 2007)
- LING-102: Introduction to Sociolinguistics
(UPenn College of General Studies, Summer 2007)
LINGUISTICS TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
- LING-001: Introduction to Linguistics
(Fall 2004, David Embick)
- LING-102: Introduction to
Sociolinguistics (Spring 2004, Bill Labov)
- LING-001: Introduction to Linguistics (Fall 2003, Mark Liberman)
ESL INSTRUCTION
- ESL/Literacy Tutor, LCFS of Eastern Pennsylvania (2003-2006)
- ESL Tutor, Bo De Vietnamese Buddhist Temple,
Philadelphia (2003)
- ESL Tutor, Arlington Education and Employment Program (2001-2002)
- English Conversation Instructor, Suncheon Girls' High School,
Korea
(Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, 1994-1995)
AWARDS
Penn Prize
for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students (2004)
- Reviewer, Western Conference on Linguistics (2008)
- Ad hoc reviewer, Lingua
- Web Advisory Committee, Linguistic Society of America (2004-2006)
- Librarian, Penn Linguistics Department Library (2004-2006)
- Co-Chair, 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (February 2004)
- Webmaster, NWAVE 32 (October 2003)
- Webmaster, 27th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (February 2003)