Doohwan Ahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doohwan Ahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doohwan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahn |
| SIGNATURE | AHN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seoul National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1594-5379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pragmatics of spatial descriptions: Sign language loci
In many areas in linguistic study it is difficult to decide where the study of language ends and the study of other aspects of human cognition begins. In this article, we discuss a particularly striking case of this, the use of the signing space (loci) for marking linguistic relations. The use of loci in the nominal and verbal domains has received a wide range of analyses, from those considering loci to be abstract linguistic mechanisms such as s…
A bridge to definiteness: Identifying Unique and Relational Definites Through Bridging
Definiteness covers a range of related meanings such as uniqueness and familiarity that are difficult to tease apart. The notion of bridging provides a testing ground for identifying the underlying mechanisms licensing definite expressions. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Mandarin bare nouns and demonstratives license unique and relational bridging, exploring how these expressions carve up the definite space and differ from Engl…
The War of Jenkins’ Ear and the Spectre of French Universal Monarchy
The Anglo–Spanish War of 1739, commonly referred to as the War of Jenkins’ Ear, is generally explained as having been caused by public outrage at the depredations of the Guarda Costas without consideration of European politics. While Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole risked his political life to avoid war with Spain for fear that it would only benefit France and disrupt the British economy, the Country opposition, led by Henry St. John, Viscount …
Lord Bolingbroke’s history of British foreign policy, 1492–1753
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was the mastermind behind the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, and a lifelong rival of Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. He is also known for his political use of history based on the saying of Dionysius of Halicarnassus: ‘history is a philosophy teaching by examples’. While much scholarly attention has been paid to Bolingbroke’s historical criticism of…
On non-conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers
Since the Conservativity Universal (Barwise & Cooper 1981; Keenan & Stavi 1986) has been proposed for natural language determiners, several apparent counterexamples have been presented in the literature. Some of these, such as English only in Only students presented, have been argued to involve an adverbial structure, thus not violating Conservativity. In this paper, we focus on proportional quantifiers such as 70% in Korean, which have been show…
Early Acquisition of Plural Morphology in a Classifier Language: Data from Korean 2-4 Year Olds
Korean is a classifier language in which bare nouns are not obligatorily number-marked. Children learning other classifier languages like Japanese and Mandarin are late in learning the plural morpheme. In this paper, we present two datasets that suggest that Korean plural marker -tul is acquired much earlier, in contrast to what has been previously claimed. In a comprehension study, we find that Korean children begin acquiring this morpheme by ag…
Indirectly direct: An account of demonstratives and pointing
What does that Lugwere demonstrative refer to? A semantic analysis of proximity and exteriority
The Bantu language Lugwere (Uganda, JE17) has what at first sight appears to be a typical three-way distinction in its demonstratives, with a proximal, medial, and distal series of demonstratives. Upon closer inspection, however, the second series in Lugwere can also be used for distal and anaphoric referents, whereas the third series has a more restricted use. We propose a better fitting semantic analysis in terms of the features [±proximal] and…
Korean classifier-less number constructions
Korean is a generalized classifier language where classifiers are required for numeralsto combine with nominals. This paper presents a number construction where the classifier isabsent and the numeral appears prenominally. This construction, which I call the classifier-lessnumber construction (Cl-less NC), results in a definite or a partitive reading where the referentmust be familiar: ‘the two women’ or ‘two of the women’. In order to account fo…
Andrew Mansfield, Ideas of Monarchical Reform: Fénelon, Jacobitism and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay
Measure constructions with relative measures: Towards a syntax of non-conservative construals
Relative measures such as percent and thirds relate one quantity to another. We observe that, in several languages, determiner phrases containing relative measures can express two distinct construals: (1) The ‘conservative’ construal in The company hired 75 % of the women considers the ratio of the company’s female hires to all women. (2) The ‘non-conservative construal’ in The company hired 75 % women is instead concerned with the ratio of the c…
From Hanover to Gibraltar: Cato’s Letters (1720–23) in International Context
Originally composed as a series of polemical essays to a weekly newspaper called The London Journal, appearing from November 1720 to July 1723, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon's Cato's Letters (1724 in book form) had a lasting influence on the development and evolution of Country ideology. It was, as is well known, one of the most widely read and influential books in Revolutionary America. Because of the enduring influence it had on the dissemin…
The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists
From Idomeneus to Protesilaus: Fénelon in Early Hanoverian Britain
Fénelon in the Enlightenment: Traditions, Adaptations, and Variations
François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d’Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into ma…
From Greece to Babylon: The political thought of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686–1743)
This paper explores the political thought of Andrew Michael Ramsay with particular reference to his highly acclaimed book called A New Cyropaedia, or the Travels of Cyrus (1727). Dedicated to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, to whom he was tutor, this work has been hitherto viewed as a Jacobite imitation of the Telemachus, Son of Ulysses(1699) of his eminent teacher archbishop Fénelon of Cambrai. By tracing the dual legacy of th…
The Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce of 1713: Tory Trade Politics and the Question of Dutch Decline
The aim of this essay is to survey the logic behind the Tory ministerial decision to bring a quick end to the hostilities with France in the early 1710s by looking at a tri-weekly journal called The Mercator (1713–14). Founded by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, then Secretary of State, and his economic advisor Charles Davenant, with a view to justifying their grandiose plan to liberalise the Anglo-French trade relationship as part of a new …
Fénelon in the Enlightenment: Traditions, Adaptations, and Variations
François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d’Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into ma…
The Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce of 1713: Tory Trade Politics and the Question of Dutch Decline
The aim of this essay is to survey the logic behind the Tory ministerial decision to bring a quick end to the hostilities with France in the early 1710s by looking at a tri-weekly journal called The Mercator (1713–14). Founded by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, then Secretary of State, and his economic advisor Charles Davenant, with a view to justifying their grandiose plan to liberalise the Anglo-French trade relationship as part of a new …
The War of Jenkins’ Ear and the Spectre of French Universal Monarchy
The Anglo–Spanish War of 1739, commonly referred to as the War of Jenkins’ Ear, is generally explained as having been caused by public outrage at the depredations of the Guarda Costas without consideration of European politics. While Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole risked his political life to avoid war with Spain for fear that it would only benefit France and disrupt the British economy, the Country opposition, led by Henry St. John, Viscount …
From Hanover to Gibraltar: Cato’s Letters (1720–23) in International Context
Originally composed as a series of polemical essays to a weekly newspaper called The London Journal, appearing from November 1720 to July 1723, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon's Cato's Letters (1724 in book form) had a lasting influence on the development and evolution of Country ideology. It was, as is well known, one of the most widely read and influential books in Revolutionary America. Because of the enduring influence it had on the dissemin…
From Greece to Babylon: The political thought of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686–1743)
This paper explores the political thought of Andrew Michael Ramsay with particular reference to his highly acclaimed book called A New Cyropaedia, or the Travels of Cyrus (1727). Dedicated to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, to whom he was tutor, this work has been hitherto viewed as a Jacobite imitation of the Telemachus, Son of Ulysses(1699) of his eminent teacher archbishop Fénelon of Cambrai. By tracing the dual legacy of th…
The Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce of 1713: Tory Trade Politics and the Question of Dutch Decline
The aim of this essay is to survey the logic behind the Tory ministerial decision to bring a quick end to the hostilities with France in the early 1710s by looking at a tri-weekly journal called The Mercator (1713–14). Founded by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, then Secretary of State, and his economic advisor Charles Davenant, with a view to justifying their grandiose plan to liberalise the Anglo-French trade relationship as part of a new …
From Greece to Babylon: The political thought of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686–1743)
This paper explores the political thought of Andrew Michael Ramsay with particular reference to his highly acclaimed book called A New Cyropaedia, or the Travels of Cyrus (1727). Dedicated to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, to whom he was tutor, this work has been hitherto viewed as a Jacobite imitation of the Telemachus, Son of Ulysses(1699) of his eminent teacher archbishop Fénelon of Cambrai. By tracing the dual legacy of th…
From Idomeneus to Protesilaus: Fénelon in Early Hanoverian Britain
Fénelon in the Enlightenment: Traditions, Adaptations, and Variations
François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d’Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into ma…
The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists
From Hanover to Gibraltar: Cato’s Letters (1720–23) in International Context
Originally composed as a series of polemical essays to a weekly newspaper called The London Journal, appearing from November 1720 to July 1723, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon's Cato's Letters (1724 in book form) had a lasting influence on the development and evolution of Country ideology. It was, as is well known, one of the most widely read and influential books in Revolutionary America. Because of the enduring influence it had on the dissemin…
Measure constructions with relative measures: Towards a syntax of non-conservative construals
Relative measures such as percent and thirds relate one quantity to another. We observe that, in several languages, determiner phrases containing relative measures can express two distinct construals: (1) The ‘conservative’ construal in The company hired 75 % of the women considers the ratio of the company’s female hires to all women. (2) The ‘non-conservative construal’ in The company hired 75 % women is instead concerned with the ratio of the c…
Korean classifier-less number constructions
Korean is a generalized classifier language where classifiers are required for numeralsto combine with nominals. This paper presents a number construction where the classifier isabsent and the numeral appears prenominally. This construction, which I call the classifier-lessnumber construction (Cl-less NC), results in a definite or a partitive reading where the referentmust be familiar: ‘the two women’ or ‘two of the women’. In order to account fo…
Andrew Mansfield, Ideas of Monarchical Reform: Fénelon, Jacobitism and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay
What does that Lugwere demonstrative refer to? A semantic analysis of proximity and exteriority
The Bantu language Lugwere (Uganda, JE17) has what at first sight appears to be a typical three-way distinction in its demonstratives, with a proximal, medial, and distal series of demonstratives. Upon closer inspection, however, the second series in Lugwere can also be used for distal and anaphoric referents, whereas the third series has a more restricted use. We propose a better fitting semantic analysis in terms of the features [±proximal] and…
On non-conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers
Since the Conservativity Universal (Barwise & Cooper 1981; Keenan & Stavi 1986) has been proposed for natural language determiners, several apparent counterexamples have been presented in the literature. Some of these, such as English only in Only students presented, have been argued to involve an adverbial structure, thus not violating Conservativity. In this paper, we focus on proportional quantifiers such as 70% in Korean, which have been show…
Early Acquisition of Plural Morphology in a Classifier Language: Data from Korean 2-4 Year Olds
Korean is a classifier language in which bare nouns are not obligatorily number-marked. Children learning other classifier languages like Japanese and Mandarin are late in learning the plural morpheme. In this paper, we present two datasets that suggest that Korean plural marker -tul is acquired much earlier, in contrast to what has been previously claimed. In a comprehension study, we find that Korean children begin acquiring this morpheme by ag…
Indirectly direct: An account of demonstratives and pointing
The War of Jenkins’ Ear and the Spectre of French Universal Monarchy
The Anglo–Spanish War of 1739, commonly referred to as the War of Jenkins’ Ear, is generally explained as having been caused by public outrage at the depredations of the Guarda Costas without consideration of European politics. While Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole risked his political life to avoid war with Spain for fear that it would only benefit France and disrupt the British economy, the Country opposition, led by Henry St. John, Viscount …
Lord Bolingbroke’s history of British foreign policy, 1492–1753
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was the mastermind behind the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, and a lifelong rival of Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. He is also known for his political use of history based on the saying of Dionysius of Halicarnassus: ‘history is a philosophy teaching by examples’. While much scholarly attention has been paid to Bolingbroke’s historical criticism of…
A bridge to definiteness: Identifying Unique and Relational Definites Through Bridging
Definiteness covers a range of related meanings such as uniqueness and familiarity that are difficult to tease apart. The notion of bridging provides a testing ground for identifying the underlying mechanisms licensing definite expressions. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Mandarin bare nouns and demonstratives license unique and relational bridging, exploring how these expressions carve up the definite space and differ from Engl…
Pragmatics of spatial descriptions: Sign language loci
In many areas in linguistic study it is difficult to decide where the study of language ends and the study of other aspects of human cognition begins. In this article, we discuss a particularly striking case of this, the use of the signing space (loci) for marking linguistic relations. The use of loci in the nominal and verbal domains has received a wide range of analyses, from those considering loci to be abstract linguistic mechanisms such as s…
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