Geonhee Lee | 이건희 [ji. kʌn.hi] 

Research Interests

syntax-prosody interface, computational linguistics, Korean/English linguistics, language acquisition

Publications

• Lee, Geonhee. (submitted). Resolving 4-way ambiguity of what-so constructions in Korean. In Proceedings of the 32nd meeting of the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. 

• Yun, Jiwon ... Geonhee Lee. (under review). Korean sentence-final intonation with wh-indeterminates.

• Lee, Geonhee and Jong-Bok Kim. 2023. English Exceptive Construction: A corpus-based perspective. Korean Journal of Linguistics. 48(2). 279-313. 

• Lee, Geonhee and Jong-Bok Kim. 2021. Negative stripping in English: A corpus-based approach. Language and Information. 25(3). 23-42.

• Kim, Jungsoo and Geonhee Lee. 2021. Away at/on conative constructions: A collexeme analysis. Studies in Modern Grammar. 110. 43-88.

Presentations

• Lee, Geonhee. Phonetic realization of Korean what-so constructions: An acoustic analysis. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 19 (WAFL 19). June 30-July 2, 2026. The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS). 

• Lee, Geonhee. Post-wh prosodic boundaries and ambiguity resolution in Korean what-so constructions. The 2026 Spring Joint Conference of the Semiosis Research Center, the Institute of Language Research at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and the Korean Generative Grammar Circle. May 30, 2026. Seoul National University of Science and Technology.

• Lee, Geonhee. Acoustic correlates to interpretation in Korean what-so constructions. HISPhonCog 2026: Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026. May 22-23, 2026. Hanyang University.

• Lee, Geonhee. Logical analysis of Nanti stress patterns. The 2025 Rutgers Subregular Morphophonology Workshop. November 14-16, 2025. Rutgers University. 

• Lee, Geonhee. Resolving 4-way ambiguity of what-so constructions in Korean. The 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 2025 (JK32). June 13-15, 2025. Cornell University.

• Lee, Geonhee. What-so constructions in Korean. Texas Linguistics Society (TLS) 2025. February 21-22, 2025. The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Lee, Geonhee. Prosodic Tones and Boundaries: Disambiguating Non-canonical Wh-questions and Wh-exclamatives in Korean. The 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL 2024). August 7-8, 2024. Kyung Hee University, Korea.

• Lee, Geonhee and Jong-Bok Kim. Ellipsis in English exceptive construction: A corpus-based approach. Texas Linguistics Society (TLS) 2023. February 17-18, 2023. The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Lee, Geonhee and Jong-Bok Kim. Ellipsis in exceptive constructions: A corpus-based approach. 2022 LSK Winter Conference. December 10, 2022. Online Conference hosted by the Linguistic Society of Korea.

• Lee, Geonhee. Exceptive constructions: A corpus-based perspective. 2021 Winter LSK Young Scholar Symposium. December 9. 2021. Online Conference hosted by the Linguistic Society of Korea.

• Lee, Geonhee and Jong-Bok Kim. Negative stripping in English: A corpus-based approach. Purdue Linguistics Symposium. April 11, 2021. Online Conference hosted by Purdue University, USA. 

• Lee, Geonhee and Jungsoo Kim. A collexeme analysis of verb-class-specific constructions: In the case of away at/on conatives. 2020 International Conference on Linguistics. October 16-17, 2020. Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. 

• Kim, Jungsoo and Geonhee Lee. Conative away at/on constructions: A collexeme analysis. 2019. Conference of the Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (KACL). November 2, 2019. Pusan National University, Korea. 

Teaching

Stony Brook University, NY, USA

Instructor

• LIN522: Phonetics (for MA TESOL)

• LIN110: The Anatomy of English Words

Teaching Assistant

• LIN202: Phonetics and Phonology

• LIN201: Phonetics

• LIN321: Morphology and Word Formation

• LIN260: Language and Mind

• LIN101: Human Language 

• LIN330: Language Acquisition

Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

Teaching Assistant

• ENGLI300101: Understanding English Syntactic Structure

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Teaching Assistant

• Understanding Syntactic Structure in English

Skills

Language

Korean (native), English (fluent), Chinese (intermediate), Japanese (beginner)

Computer

LaTex, Python, C, R, Praat