EunHee Lee

Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

 

Contact:

Address: 623 Baldy Hall

               Department of Linguistics

               University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

               Buffalo, New York 14260-1030

Telephone: 716-645-0125

E-mail: ehlee@buffalo.edu

 

Reserch Interests

 

My research areas are formal (model-theoretic) semantics, logic, and dynamic semantics.

While working on my doctorate, I became fascinated by the way in which formal linguistic theories formulate clear, explicit, and precise representations of linguistic structures and processes. I was particularly drawn to the semantic representation of information updating and situated inferences, because these dynamic processes, rather than static representations of linguistic structure, are what really brought language to life for me. This led me to work on the phenomena of temporal anaphora, i.e., the informational dependencies in discourse created by tense, aspect and temporal adverbials.

Although the focus in semantics has been shifting from a possible worlds, truth-conditional semantics approach to an information theory with special emphasis on context-dependent interpretation, there are still few researches that use naturally occurring corpus data and focus on less commonly studied languages. I am currently working on cross-linguistic issues using quantitative methods in corpus in order to see how discourse context influence the meaning and use of grammatical forms and how discourse relations can be formally represented. Other areas of interests include language acquisition and semantics/pragmatics interface.

 

Publications

 

Books

 

2000   Dynamic and Stative Information in Temporal Reasoning: Korean Tense and 

       Aspect in Discourse.

       Groningen Dissertation in Linguistics Series 30.

 

2007   Korean Tense and Aspect in Narrative Discourse.

       (In press) Saffron Books, London: Eastern Art Publishing.

 

Journal Articles

 

2003   Differences between two alleged perfects in Korean.

       Journal of East Asian Linguistics 12.1, 1-17.

 

2006   Stative progressives in Korean and English.

       Journal of Pragmatics 38, 695-717.

 

2007   Dynamic and stative information in temporal reasoning: Interpretation of

       Korean past markers in narrative discourse.

       Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16.1, 1-25.

 

2007   On cross-linguistic variations in imperfective aspect: the case of L2 Korean.

       Language Learning 57.4, 651-685, with Hae-Young Kim as a second author.

 

2008   Aspectual and focus adverbs in English and Korean.

       Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26, 339-358.

 

2008  Argument structure and event structure: the case of Korean imperfective

       constructions.

       Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17, 117-139.

 

2009  Two nows in Korean.

       Journal of Semantics 26, 1-22, with Jeongmi Choi as a second author.

 

        Pluperfects in Korean and English discourse.

       (Under review) Journal of Pragmatics.

 

Book chapters

 

2004   The meaning of the aspectual markers -ko iss and -a/e iss in Korean.

       In Generative Grammar in a Broader Perspective: Selected Papers from 4th 

       Glow in Asia, Yoon (ed.), Hankook Publishing, Seoul, Korea.

 

2007   The development of tense and aspect morphology in L2 Korean.

       In Frontiers of Korean Language Acquisition, Song (ed.), The Saffron Book,

       Eastern Art Publishing, London, 91-126, with Hae-Young Kim as the first author.

 

Conference presentations and proceedings

  

1999   Dynamic and stative information in temporal reasoning.

       Paper presented at the annual meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 

       in Los Angeles, with Alice G.B. ter Meulen as a second author.

 

2000   Dynamic meaning of the -ess marker in Korean.

       Paper presented at the annual meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 

       in Chicago.

 

2001   The meaning of the progressive -ko iss in Korean.

       Paper presented at the biannual meeting of Harvard International Symposium   

       of Korean Linguistics (ISOKL) in Boston.

          Also published in Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics IX, 521-530.

       Susumu Kuno & Ik-Whan Lee (eds.), Hanshin Publishers, Seoul, Korea.

 

2002   Teaching the Korean tense and aspect morphology.

       Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Association of Teachers of   

       Korean (AATK) in Orlando, Florida, as a panel member of “A focus on 

       form approach to the teaching of L2 Korean grammar: Tense and aspect

       markers.”

 

2003   Past tense and progressive aspect marking in L2 Korean.

       Paper presented at the annual meeting of Georgetown University Roundtable

       of Linguistics (GURT) in Washington, with Hae-Young Kim as a second 

       author.

 

2003   Aspectual adverbs of focus in English and Korean.

       Paper presented at the annual meeting of Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) in  

       Chicago.

       Also published in CLS 39, University of Chicago Press.

 

2003   Different states described by aspectual markers -ko iss and -a/e iss in Korean.

       Paper presented at the biannual meeting of Harvard International Symposium  

       of Korean Linguistics (ISOKL) in Boston.

       Also appeared in Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics X.

 

2003   The meaning of the aspectual markers -ko iss and -a/e iss in Korean.

       Paper presented at the 4th GLOW in Asia in Seoul, Korea.

      

2003   Emergence of tense and aspect morphology in L2 Korean.

       Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) in Tucson,  

       Arizona, with Hae-Young Kim as the first author.

 

2004   On crosslinguistic variations in imperfective aspect: case of L2 Korean.

       Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

       in Portland, Oregon, with Hae-Young Kim as a second author.

 

2006   The Korean pluperfect and types of discourse.

       Also appeared in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 16.

 

2006   Two nows in Korean.

       Paper presented at International Conference on East Asian Linguistics

       (ICEAL) in University of Toronto, Canada, with Jeongmi Choi as a second author.

        Also appeared in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.

 

2007   Pluperfects in Korean and English discourse.

       Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America in Anaheim, CA.

 

2007   Reference to past in L2 Korean.

       Paper presented at American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) in

       University of Chicago, IL, with Hae-Young Kim as a second author.

       Also appeared in The Korean Language in America 11, H. Wang (ed.) AATK.