English semantics and pragmatics
Experimental linguistics
Statistics for linguistic research
Education
(Ph.D.) Stanford University
Experience
(2023-2024) Vice President, The Linguistic Society of Korea
(2023-2024) Vice President, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
(2023-2024) Vice President of International Affairs, Sungkyunkwan University
(2023-2024) Director, Sungkyun Language Institute, Sungkyunkwan University
(2020-present) Project director, Brain Korea(BK) 21 FOUR, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University
(2021-2022) The Linguistic Society of Korea(LSK), chief director (research)
(2019-2020) Nationall Assembly of Korea, hiring committee member
(2017) Visiting professor & advisory board, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
(2015-present) Referee, A&HCI journals , , , , etc.
(2013-2015) Director, The Sungkyun Times / The Sungkyun Broadcasting Station (SUBS)
(2013-2014) The Korean Society for Language and Information (KSLI), secretary-general
(2009-2012) Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), overseas board member
(2009-2010) The Korean Society for Language and Information (KSLI), executive committee
(2009) The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK), executive committee
(2004-present) Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University
(2003) Visiting assistant professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Minnesota
(2001-2002) Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina
(2001) Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University
Journal Articles
(2023)
Cause identifiability and the causative alternation in English: A corpus-based analysis.
Linguistic Research.
40,
3
(2022)
Communicative Efficiency and Preferred Information Structure: Evidence from Differential Subject Marking in Korean.
언어.
47,
4
(2022)
Ditransitivity hierarchy, semantic compatibility and the realization of recipients in Korean dative constructions.
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS.
58,
1
(2021)
Direct Perception, Cue Reliability and Caseless Subjects: Evidence from Conversational Korean.
언어.
46,
4
(2021)
Syntactic Distribution of the Semantic Classes of Dative Verbs in English and Cantonese: A Crosslinguistic Perspective.
언어.
46,
2
(2020)
Ditransitive Asymmetries and Quantifier Scope in Korean.
언어.
45,
3
(2019)
Verb Sensitivity of the English Dative Alternation: Experimental Evidence from Give-type Verbs.
담화와 인지.
26,
4
(2019)
On the Distribution of Semantic Classes of Dative Verbs in Syntactic Constructions in Korean.
언어.
44,
2
(2018)
Two types of variation in the morphosyntactic expression of recipients of dative verbs in Korean.
Linguistic Research.
35,
3
(2017)
Effects of Information Status, Subject Type and Tenseon Subject Case Ellipsis in Korean: An Experimental Study.
담화와 인지.
24,
4
(2016)
Usage probability and subject-object asymmetries in Korean case ellipsis: Experiments with subject case ellipsis.
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS.
52,
1
(2015)
Information structure, topic predictability and gradients in Korean case ellipsis: A probabilistic account.
언어연구.
32,
3
(2014)
D-linking and Gradients in Korean Case Ellipsis:An Experiment with Wh-subjects.
담화와 인지.
21,
3
(2013)
The influence of social situations on fluency difficulty in Korean EFL learners' oral refusals.
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS.
50,
1
(2012)
Context, Non-Canonical Word Order and Subject-Object Asymmetry in Korean Case Ellipsis.
담화와 인지.
19,
2
(2011)
Contrstive Focus, Usage Probability and Gradients in Korean Case Ellipsis.
담화와 인지.
18,
3
(2011)
Information Structure and the Use of the English Existential Construction in Korean Learner English.
영어영문학.
57,
6
(2011)
Explaining Variation in Korean Case Ellipsis: Economy versus Iconicity.
JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS.
21,
1
(2011)
Explaining Variation in Korean case Ellipsis: Economy versus Iconicity.
JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS.
20,
1
(2011)
Gradients in Korean Case Ellipsis: An Experimental Investigation.
LINGUA.
121,
1
Publications
(2005)
영어학의 최근 논점.
한국문화사.
Co-author
Honors / Awards
2011 SKKU Young Fellowship
2007-2009 Excellence in Research Award, Sungkyunkwan University
2008 Excellence in Research Award, Sungkyun CEO Forum
2000-2001 Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, Whiting Foundation
1996-2000 Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University
Conference Paper
(2024)
Communicative efficiency, grounding and crosslinguistic patterns of differential subject marking.
International Conference on Language and Communication as part of the Research Network on Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED 2024).
JAPAN
(2022)
Cue reliability and motivation in grammar and language use: A new look at differential subject marking.
The 36th Annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 36).
PHILIPPINES
(2021)
Syntactic distribution of the semantic classes of dative verbs in English and Cantonese: A crosslinguistic perspective.
The 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 35).
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2021)
A semantic account of associations between dative verbs and constructions in English and Cantonese
A semantic account of associations between dative verbs and constructions in English and Cantonese
A semantic account of associations between dative verbs and constructions in English and Cantonese.
2021 LSK Winter Young Scholar Symposium.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2021)
Grounding and Interpretation of Unmarked Subjects in Korean: Evidence from Conversation Data.
The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2020)
English Studies in the Age of AI.
2020 ELLAK International Conference.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2020)
Bare Subjects, Information Structure and Tense Revisited: The Role of Grounding and Economy.
The 22nd International Conference on Generative Grammar.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2018)
Two types of variation in the realization of recipients of dative verbs in Korean.
2018 LSK Summer International Conference.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2018)
The realization of recipients of dative verbs in Korean: A stochastic Optimality-Theoretic analysis.
LSA 2018 Annual Meeting.
UNITED STATES
(2017)
Effects of Information Status, Subject Type and Tense on Subject Case Ellipsis in Korean: An Experimental Study.
LSA 2017 Annual Meeting.
UNITED STATES
(2013)
On the source of subject-object asymmetries in Korean case ellipsis: An experimental investigation.
The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
UNITED STATES
(2012)
Non-canonical word order and subject-object asymmetry in Korean case ellipsis.
The 19th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2012)
Social situations and fluency difficulty in Korean EFL learners' oral refusals.
The 1st World Congress of Scholars of English Linguistics.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2011)
언어학 연구를 위한 기초통계.
2011 한국언어학회 정기학술대회.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2011)
The Effects of Social Situations on Oral Fluency in Korean EFL Learners' Refusals.
ALAK 2011 Annual Conference.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2011)
Gradient Acceptability of Case Ellipsis on Subtypes of Focus Subject in Korean: A Probabilistic Account.
The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2011)
Focus Types and Subject-Object Asymmetry in Korean Case Ellipsis: A Probabilistic Account.
2011 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
UNITED STATES
(2010)
Focus Types and Subject-Object Asymmetry in Korean case Ellipsis: A New Look at Focus Effects.
24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation.
JAPAN
(2010)
문법적 변이 현상 연구를 위한 통계 기법: 로지스틱 회귀분석을 중심으로.
2010 한국언어정보학회 정기학술대회.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2009)
Contrastive Strength, Accessibility and Object Case Ellipsis.
2009 언어정보학회 여름 정기학술대회 발표논문집.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
