I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, advised by Dr. Jiwon Yun. I am currently working on Korean wh-constructions and their disambiguation of non-canonical wh-readings.
Email: geonhee dot lee at-sign stonybrook dot edu
Office: SBS-S204
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
Miscellaneous 🎵
Music has always been a huge part of my life. I've been playing the cello for as long as I can remember, and I’d grab it and have fun with my friends. What I love most about music is how different sounds come together to create a harmony. I often dream about being a cellist or a music journalist if I didn't take the path to be a linguist!
IPA-to-pronunciation sound of my name in American English
my furry friend [͡tɕok͈o]