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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I'm Yongtaek, a linguist specializing in the contrastive analysis between Korean and Japanese at
the Georgia Institute of Technology.</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Currently, I have been working on the historical change of the Japanese ya-ina-ya (interrogative-NEG-interrogative)
from a complementizer usage meaning 'whether or not' to the temporal adverbial-clause-linking usage meaning 'as soon as.'</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">After an extensive search for typological evidence, I have been unable to locate any datasets that
directly address the evolutionary shift from a complementizer to a temporal adverbial function in any language. </span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I was just wondering if you know of any typological data where 'X-NEG-X' has changed from a complementizer
('whether or not') to a temporal adverbial ('when' or 'as soon as').</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I would greatly appreciate it if you could share any such typological data.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yongtaek Kim, Ph.D. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Associate Professor of Korean and Linguistics</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Director of Korean Program </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">School of Modern Languages, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Swann 309 </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ykim791@gatech.edu </span></p>
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