Hanjung Lee
Professor of English Linguistics
Department of English Language and Literature
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
25-2 Sungkyunkwan-ro
Jongro-ku, Seoul 03063, Korea
Email: hanjung@skku.edu
Phone: +82-(0)2-760-0251 (office)
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Research interests
• Syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interfaces
• Experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics and sentence processing
Courses
Fall 2024
• Research methods in English semantics and pragmatics
Spring 2024
• Meaning and using English
Fall 2023
• English semantics 1
Spring 2023
• Meaning and using English
Fall 2022
• Research methods in English semantics and pragmatics
• Sociocultural understanding of English
Spring 2022
• Meaning and using English
Fall 2021
• English linguistics capstone
• Sociocultural understanding of English
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2001)
Academic appointments
March 2014-present Professor, Dept. of English Language and
Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
March 2008-Feb. 2014 Associate Professor, Dept. of English Language and
Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
March 2004-Feb. 2008 Assistant Professor, Dept. of English Language and
Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Aug. 2003-Jan. 2004 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
Sept. 2001-July 2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Psychology, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Publications
Book:
Hanjung Lee. (2025). Artificial Intelligence and Linguistic Imagination: New Paradigm in Linguistic Research. Seoul: Sungkyunkwan University Press. [in Korean]
Journal articles:
Kim, Jiyoun, Ye-eun Cho and Hanjung Lee. (2025). Semantic and contextual constraints on the causative alternation in English: A multifactorial analysis. To appear in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
Hanjung Lee. (2024). Cue reliability, communicative efficiency and differential subject marking: Evidence from Korean. Language 100(3): 468-503.
Hanjung Lee. (2023). Cause identifiability and the causative alternation in English: A corpus-based analysis. Linguistic Research 40(3): 353-385.
Hanjung Lee. (2022). Communicative efficiency and preferred information structure: Evidence from differential subject marking in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 47(4): 667-703.
Hanjung Lee. (2022). Ditransitivity hierarchy, semantic compatibility and the realization of recipients in Korean dative constructions. Journal of Linguistics 58(1): 37-72.
Hanjung Lee. (2021). Direct perception, cue reliability and caseless subjects: Evidence from conversational Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 46(4): 987-1013.
Ziying Li and Hanjung Lee. (2021). Syntactic distribution of the semantic classes of dative verbs in English and Cantonese: A crosslinguistic perspective. Korean Journal of Linguistics 46(2): 293-327.
Hanjung Lee. (2020). Ditransitive asymmetries and quantifier scope in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 45(3): 619-650.
Seo Yeon Jang and Hanjung Lee. (2019). Verb sensitivity of the English dative alternation: Experimental evidence from give-type verbs. Discourse and Cognition 26(4): 113-135.
Hanjung Lee. (2019). On the distribution of semantic classes of dative verbs in syntactic constructions in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 44(2): 255-291.
Hanjung Lee. (2018). Two types of variation in the morphosyntactic expression of recipients of dative verbs in Korean. Linguistic Research 35(3): 449-482.
Hanjung Lee. (2017). Effects of information status, subject type and tense on subject case ellipsis in Korean: An experimental study. Discourse and Cognition 24(4): 115-141.
Hanjung Lee. (2016). Usage probability and subject-object asymmetries in Korean case ellipsis: Experiments with subject case ellipsis. Journal of Linguistics 52(1): 70-110.
Hanjung Lee. (2015). Information structure, topic predictability and gradients in Korean case ellipsis: A probabilistic account. Linguistic Research 32(3): 749-771.
Hanjung Lee. (2014). D-linking and gradients in Korean case ellipsis: An experiment with wh-subjects. Discourse and Cognition 21(3): 181-208.
Hanjung Lee. (2013). The influence of social situations on fluency difficulty in Korean EFL learners’ oral refusals. Journal of Pragmatics 50(1): 168-186.
Hanjung Lee. (2012). Context, non-canonical word order and subject-object asymmetry in Korean case ellipsis. Discourse and Cognition 19(2): 57-80.
Hanjung Lee. (2011a). Information structure and the use of the English existential Construction in Korean learner English. Journal of English Language and Literature 57(6): 1017-1041.
Hanjung Lee. (2011b). Contrastive focus, usage probability and gradients in Korean case ellipsis. Discourse and Cognition 18(3): 215-240.
Hanjung Lee. (2011c). Gradients in Korean case ellipsis: An experimental investigation. Lingua 121(1): 20-34,
Hanjung Lee. (2010). Explaining variation in Korean case ellipsis: Economy versus Iconicity. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 19(4): 291-318.
Hanjung Lee. (2009). Contrastive focus and variable case marking: A comparison between subjects and objects. Language and Information 13(2): 1-27.
Hanjung Lee. (2008a). Focus types and gradients in Korean case ellipsis. Language and Information 12(2): 1-20.
Hanjung Lee (2008b). Processing efficiency and object case ellipsis in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 33(1): 159-179.
Hanjung Lee and Goeun Chae. (2008). To raise or not to raise: A corpus study of raising-to-object in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 33(4): 813-842.
Hanjung Lee. (2007). Case ellipsis at the grammar/pragmatics interface: A formal analysis from a typological perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 39(9): 1465-1482.
Yoonhyoung Lee, Hanjung Lee, and Peter Gordon. (2007). Linguistic complexity and information structure in Korean: Evidence from eye-tracking during reading. Cognition 104(3): 495-534.
Hanjung Lee. (2006a). Effects of focus and markedness hierarchies on object case ellipsis in Korean. Discourse and Cognition 13(2): 205-231.
Hanjung Lee. (2006b). Iconicity and variation in the choice of object forms in Korean. Language Research 42(2): 323-355.
Hanjung Lee. (2006c). Parallel optimization in case systems: Evidence from case ellipsis in Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 15(1): 69-96
Hanjung Lee. (2005a). Effects of noun phrase type on sentence processing. Discourse and Cognition 12(1): 105-129.
Hanjung Lee. (2005b). Hierarchies and case ellipsis in Korean: A stochastic OT analysis. Korean Journal of Linguistics 30(2): 295-322.
Hanjung Lee. (2003a). Optimization in argument expression and interpretation: A unified approach. Glot International 7(4): 113-121.
Hanjung Lee. (2003b). Prominence mismatch and markedness reduction in word order. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21(3): 617-680.
Chapters in peer-reviewed edited volume:
Hanjung Lee. (2015). Case particle ellipsis. In The Handbook of Korean Linguistics, edited by Lucien Brown and Jaehoon Yeon, 196-211. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
Hanjung Lee. (2008). Quantitative variation in Korean case ellipsis: Implications for case theory. In Differential Subject Marking (Series in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory), edited by Helen de Hoop and Peter de Swart, 41-61. Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
Hanjung Lee. (2007). Constraint subhierarchies as syntactic universals: Evidence from variation and processing. In Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan, edited by Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, and Annie Zaenen, 313-344. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Hanjung Lee. (2005). Optimality Theory and syntax. In Current Issues in English Linguistics, edited by Hee-Rhak Chae, Sun-Woong Kim, and Sung-Ki Suh, 261-286. Seoul: Hankook Publishing Co.
Hanjung Lee. (2004a). Minimality in a lexicalist Optimality Theory. In Minimality Effects in Syntax (Studies in Generative Grammar), edited by Arthur Stepanov, Gisbert Fanslow, and Ralf Vogel, 241-288. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Hanjung Lee. (2004b). Quantitative variation in Korean case ellipsis: A stochastic OT analysis. In Perspectives on Korean Case and Case Marking, edited by Byung-Soo Park and Jong-Bok Kim, 369-394. Seoul: Thaehaksa.
Beaver, David and Hanjung Lee. (2004). Input-output mismatches in Optimality Theory. In Optimality Theory and Pragmatics (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition), edited by Reinhard Blutner and Henk Zeevat, 112-153. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hanjung Lee. (2003). Parallel optimization in case systems. In Nominals: Inside and Out (Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism), edited by Miriam Butt and Tracy King, 15-58. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Hanjung Lee. (2002). Crosslinguistic variation in argument expression and intralinguistic freezing effects. In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 43, edited by Tania Ionin, Heejeong Ko, and Andrew Nevins, 103-122. MIT Linguistics Department.
Hanjung Lee. (2001). Markedness and word order freezing. In Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism), edited by Peter Sells, 63-127. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Presentations at international conference
2024. 3. Communicative efficiency, grounding and crosslinguistic patterns of differential subject marking. Presented at the 2024 International Conference on Language and Communication as part of the Research Network on Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED 2024), the University of Tokyo, March 18-19, 2024.
2022. 10. Cue reliability and motivations in grammar and language use: A new look at differential subject marking. Plenary talk given at the 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 36), De La Salle University, Manila and National University, Manila, October 20-22, 2022.
2021. 11. Syntactic distribution of the semantic classes of dative verbs in English and Cantonese: A crosslinguistic perspective. Presented at the 35th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 35), Shanghai Internatonal Studies University, November 5-7, 2021. (with Ziying Li)
2021. 10. Grounding and interpretation of unmarked subjects in Korean: Evidence from conversation data. Invited talk given at the Satellite Workshop on Data-oriented Approaches to Meaning in Korean and Japanese of the 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Seoul, October 8-11, 2021.
2020. 12. English studies in the age of AI. Presented at the 2020 ELLAK International Conference, Seoul, December 18-20, 2020. (with Won-Chung Kim and Yeonsik Jung)
2020. 8. Bare subjects, information structure and tense revisited: The role of grounding and economy. Invited talk given at the 22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 22), Kyungsang National University, August 12-13, 2020.
2018. 6. Two types of variation in the realization of recipients of dative verbs in Korean. Presented at the 2018 LSK Summer International Conference, Kyunghee University, June 28-29, 2018.
2018. 1. The realization of recipients of dative verbs in Korean: A stochastic Optimality- Theoretic analysis. Presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, January 4-7, 2018. (with Seo Yeon Jang)
2017. 1. Effects of information status, subject type and tense on subject case ellipsis in Korean: An experimental study. Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, January 6-9, 2018. (with Sojung Lee)
2013. 1. On the source of subject-object asymmetries in Korean case ellipsis: An experimental investigation. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 3-6, 2018. (with Nayoun Kim)
2012. 7. Non-canonical word order and subject-object asymmetry in Korean case ellipsis. Presented at the 19th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Chungnam National University, July 17-19, 2013. (with Nayoun Kim)
2012. 6. Social situations and fluency difficulty in Korean EFL learners' oral refusals. Presented at the 1st World Congress of Scholars of English Linguistics, Seoul, June 25-26, 2012.
2011. 10. Gradient acceptability of case ellipsis on subtypes of focus subject in Korean: A probabilistic account. Presented at the 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Seoul National University, October 21-23, 2011. (with Haejeong Choi)
2011. 1. Focus types and subject-object asymmetry in Korean case ellipsis: A probabilistic account. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, January 5-8, 2011.
2010. 11. Focus types and subject-object asymmetry in Korean case ellipsis: A new look at focus effects. Presented at the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 24), Tohoku University, November 4-5, 2010. (with Haejeong Choi)
2009. 1. Focus types and gradients in object case ellipsis. Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, January 8-11, 2009.
2008. 11. The pragmatics of the choice between raised and non-raised complement structures: A corpus study. Presented at the 27th Annual Western Conference on Linguistics, University of California, Davis, November 21-23, 2008. (with Goeun Chae)
2008. 7. Processing efficiency and multiple factors affecting case marking in Korean. Presented at the 18th International Congress of Linguists, Korea University, July 21-26, 2008.
2008. 6. Gradients in object case ellipsis in Korean. Invited talk given at Workshop on Case Variation, University of Stuttgart, June 19-20, 2008.
2007. 8. Effects of focus type, newness and markedness on case ellipsis. Presented at the 11th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, August 5-7, 2008. (with Goeun Chae)
2006. 7. Effects of information status and animacy/definiteness hierarchies on case ellipsis. Presented at the 2006 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics, Seoul National University, July 21-22, 2006.
2005. 8. Definiteness hierarchy effects in sentence processing. Presented at the 10th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, August 6-8, 2005.
2005. 7. Definiteness hierarchy effects in referential processing: An eye-tracking study. Presented at the 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Yonsei University, July 17-22, 2005.
2004. 7. Variable case marking in Korean: Implications for formal analyses of DSM. Invited talk given at the Pionier Workshop on Differential Subject Marking, University of Nijmegen, July 8-9, 2004.
2004. 3. Noun phrase type and referential processing: An eye-tracking study. Presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, March 25-27, 2004.
2003. 5. Quantitative variation in Korean case and word order. Presented at the Quantitative Linguistics Conference 2003, University of Georgia, Athens, May 28-29, 2003.
2003. 4. Form-meaning asymmetries and bidirectional optimization. Presented at the Workshop on Variation within Optimality Theory, Stockholm University, April 26-27, 2003. (with David Beaver)
2002. 10. Quantitative variation and the proper theory of case. Invited talk given at the Conference on Gradedness, University of Potsdam, October 21-23, 2002.
2002. 6. Input-output mismatches in OT. Invited talk given at the Workshop on Pragmatics and Optimality Theory, ZAS, Berlin, June 8-10, 2002. (with David Beaver)
2002. 4. Accessibility and stylistic variation: corpus results. Presented at the 38th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 25-27, 2002.
2002. 3. Economy effects in a lexicalist Optimality Theory. Invited talk given at the Workshop on Minimal Link Effects in Minimalist and Optimality Theoretic Syntax, University of Potsdam, March 21-22, 2002.
2001. 9. Crosslinguistic variation in argument expression and intralinguistic freezing effects. Presented at the Harvard/MIT Conference on Language Research, Harvard University and MIT, September 8-9, 2001.
2000. 7. Word order and ambiguity in a bidirectional OT. Presented at the LFG2000 Conference, University of California, Berkeley, July 19-20, 2000.
2000. 2. Markedness and pronoun incorporation. Presented at the 26th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February 18-21, 2000.
2000. 1. Harmonic alignment and pronoun incorporation in Optimality Theory. Presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 6-9, 2000. (with Cathryn Donohue)
1999. 10. The emergence of the unmarked order. Presented at the 30th Conference of the North East Linguistic Society, Rutgers University, October 22-24, 1999.
1999. 7. The domain of grammatical case in Lexical-Functional Grammar. Presented at the LFG1999 Conference, University of Manchester, July 19-21, 1999.
1999. 7. An Optimality-theoretic account of freezing effects. Presented at the 8th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, July 16-18, 1999.
1999. 4. Aspectual and thematic licensing of grammatical case. Presented at the 35th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 22-24, 1999.
1999. 1. Discourse competing with syntax: “Misplaced” que in Child French. Presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 7-10, 1999.
1998. 7. Korean causatives in the hierarchical lexicon. Presented at the 11th International Conference on Korean Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, July 6-9, 1998.
External grants funded (as principal investigator/project director)
June 2025-May 2028 Mid-Career Research Grant. National Research Foundation
of Korea. “Using artificial intelligence to study the causative alternation:
Universal motivations and language-specificity”
June 2023-May 2025 Mid-Career Research Grant. National Research Foundation
of Korea. “The gradience of the English causative alternation
in context: An integrated approach”
Sept. 2020-present Brain Korea (BK) 21 FOUR (Dept. of English Language and
Literature, Sungkyunkwan University). National Research
Foundation of Korea. “A project for education and research
in Interaction English Studies in the era of AI”
July 2018-June 2020 Mid-Career Research Grant. National Research Foundation
of Korea.“The meaning and structure of dative constructions
in English and Korean”
July 2017-June 2018 Mid-Career Research Grant. National Research Foundation
of Korea. “Strength of possession entailment and case-marking
on arguments of Korean dative verbs”
May 2010-April 2012 Mid-Career Research Grant. National Research
Foundation of Korea.“Processing efficiency and
case variation: An experimental investigation”
July 2008-June 2009 Research Grant for Junior Faculty. Korea Research
Foundation. “Case variation at the interface of
syntax and pragmatics: An experimental investigation”
July 2006-June 2008 Research Grant for Junior Faculty. Korea Research
Foundation.“Explaining syntactic variation: Towards
experimental syntax and semantics”
July 2005-June 2006 Research Grant for Junior Faculty. Korea Research
Foundation.“Variation and grammar: A unified approach”
Professional activities and memberships:
2025-2026 The Linguistic Society of Korea, President-elect
2023-2024 The Linguistic Society of Korea, Vice president
2023-2026 The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Vice president
2021-2022 The Linguistic Society of Korea, Chief director of research
2019-2020 The National Assembly of Korea, Hiring committee member
2017-2018 The Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University, Advisory board
member
2013-2014 The Korean Society for Language and Information, Secretary-general
2009-2012 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Overseas board member
2009-2010 The English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Executive committee
2008-2010 The English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Editorial board
2007-present The Korean Society for Language and Information, Executive committee
2007-2009 The Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, Editorial board
2005-2006 The Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics, Editorial board
2004-present The Linguistic Society of Korea, Member
2004-present The English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Member
2004-present The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea, Member
2004-present The Korean Society for Language and Information, Member
1998-present The International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association, Member
1997-present The Linguistic Society of America, Member
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