Geonhee [kʌn.hi] Lee

Research Interests

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

Publications

• Lee, Geonhee. (In prep). 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. 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

• LIN110: The Anatomy of English Words (Co-teaching)

Teaching Assistant

• 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 (advanced), Chinese (intermediate)

Computer

LaTex, Python, C, R, Praat