Part I. Korean Overview: 1. Introduction Sungdai Cho and John Whitman; 2. Phonology: An Overview Young-Key Kim-Renaud; 3. Overview of Chapters on Syntax James Hye-Suk Yoon; 4. On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia Alexander Vovin; 5. Politeness Strategies in Korean Sungdai Cho; 6. Korean Kugyŏl Jae-young Chung and John Whitman; Part II. Phonetics and Phonology: 7. Vowel Harmony Seongyeon Ko; 8. The Phonology and Phonetics of Korean Stop Laryngeal Contrasts Yoonjung Kang, Jessamyn Schertz and Sungwoo Han; 9. The Phonetic-Prosody Interface and Prosodic Strengthening in Korean Taehong Cho; 10. Constituent Structure and Sentence Phonology of Korean Seunghun J. Lee; 11. Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Korean Stops Sang Yee Cheon; Part III. Morphology and Syntax: 12. Right-Dislocation in Korean: An Overview Heejeong Ko; 13. Experimental Insights on the Grammar of Korean Anaphors Chung-hye Han; 14. Person-Denoting Nominals: Interpretations and Structures Shin-Sook Kim and Peter Sells; 15. Lexical Nominalizations in Korean James Hye-Suk Yoon; 16. The Processing of a Long-Distance Dependency in Korean: An Overview Nayoung Kwon; Part IV. Semantics and Pragmatics: 17. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Korean Grammar Ho-min Sohn; 18. Discourse Studies in Korean Haeyeon Kim; 19. Metaphoric and Metonymic Patterns with the Body-Part Term Nwun 'Eye(s)' in Korean Ebru Türker; 20. Wh-indefinites Jiwon Yun; 21. 'Expletive' Negation in Korean Suwon Yoon; 22. Case Stacking in Korean: Argument Structure or Information Structure? EunHee Lee; Part V. Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics: 23. Grammaticalization in Korean Seongha Rhee; 24. Performing Gender in Korean: Language, Gender, and Social Change Minju Kim; 25. Jejueo: Korea's Other Language William O'Grady, Changyong Yang and Sejung Yang; Part VI. Language Pedagogy: 26. Genre-Based Approach to Korean Language Teaching: A Curriculum Application Hye-Sook Wang; 27. Towards Integrated Performance Assessment Sahie Kang; 28. Interactional Competence in Korean Language Mary Shin Kim; 29. From Bilingual Speakers to Korean Heritage Language Learners Hi-Sun Kim; 30. Language Policy and Its Effect in South Korea Hyunsik Min.