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Curriculum Vitae

Jungmee Lee

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Education

2005-present

Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University

2004

M.A., Department of English Language and English Literature, Seoul National University, Korea
Thesis: The syntax and semantics of the
eitheror construction
Committee: Eun-jung Yoo (advisor), Ki-sun Hong, Chang-Yong Sohn

2002

B.A., Department of English Language and English Literature, Seoul National University, Korea (cum laude)

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Publications

to appear     Temporal interpretation without tense: Coordination constructions in Korean and Japanese", with Judith Tonhauser, accepted with revisions for the Journal of Semantics. 

to appear     “Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauseswith Yusuke Kubota, Anastasia Smirnova, and Judith Tonhauser, In  Cahier Chronos: Selected Proceedings of Chronos 8, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.  

2009a          “On the Cross-linguistic interpretation of embedded tenses,  with Yusuke Kubota, Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser, In A. Riester and T. Solstad, eds., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, 307-320. University of Stuttgart, Germany. 

2008b          “Reconsidering the Coordinate Structure Constraint in Japanese and Korean: Syntactic constraint or pragmatic principle?with Yusuke Kubota ,  In S.Muller, ed., Proceedings of the HPSG08 Conference, 380-398. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

2008a          “The temporal interpretation of the Korean -ko construction: Aktionsart and discourse context”, In A. Grønn, ed., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12, 367–383. Oslo, Norway.

2005b          “Either...or... constructions: An HPSG approach, In K-Y. Roh et al., eds., SNU Working Papers 4. Seoul, Korea.

2005a          The syntax and semantics of the either…or… construction, M.A. thesis, Seoul National University, Korea.

2004            “On the categorial status of such”, In H. Cho et al., eds., SNU Working Papers 3. Seoul, Korea.

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Refereed presentations

2010       “A compositional analysis of the evidential meaning of -te in Korean', paper to be presented at LSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, January 7-10. 

2009c     “Evidentiality and temporality: a case study of -te in Korean, Conference of Syntax and Semantics at Paris (CSSP 2009),  September 23-25.

2009b    “The Coordinate Structure Constraint: Syntactic constraint or pragmatic principle?”, with Yusuke Kubota, paper presented at LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 8-11.

2009a     “The temporal interpretation of Korean relative clauses: A compositional analysis”, poster presented at LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 8-11.

2008e     “A novel approach to the temporal interpretation of Korean relative clauses: Morphological markings and default aspect, Midwest Workshop on Semantics, Ohio State University, October 18.

2008d     “Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses, with Yusuke Kubota, Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser, the 8th meeting of Chronos (the international conference on tense, aspect, mood and modality), Austin, Texas, October 3-5.

2008c     “The cross-linguistic interpretation of embedded tenses, with Yusuke Kubota, Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser, the 13th Sinn und Bedeutung, Stuttgart, Germany, September 30 - October 2.

2008b    “The Coordinate Structure Constraint as a discourse-oriented principle: Further evidence from Japanese and Korean”, with Yusuke Kubota, the 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Keihanna, Japan, July 28-30.

2008a     “Tenseless constructions in a tensed language: Temporal interpretation of the Korean -ko construction”, with Judith Tonhauser, the 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, Korea, July 20-25.

2007b     “Temporal interpretation of the coordination constructions in Korean”, Midwest Workshop on Semantics, Michigan State University, October 6.

2007a     “The temporal interpretation of the Korean -ko construction: Aktionsart and discourse context”, the 12th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, University of Oslo, Norway, September 20-22.

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Fellowships and grants

AU 2009    David Dowty Graduate Travel Award (maximum amount: $1000), Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University

WI 2009    Graduate Research Small Grant, College of Humanities, The Ohio State University.

AU 2007-WI 2008    Targeted Investment Fellowship, The Ohio State University.

AU 2005-SU 2006    University Fellowship, The Ohio State University.

2003-2004    Scholarship awarded by Woosan Educational Foundation.

2000    Scholarship awarded by Hongkong-Shanghai Banking Corporation.

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Teaching experience 

(full responsibility for developing course material, lecturing, grading etc.)

AU 2008, WI 2009, SP 2009, SU 2009, AU 2009

        Ling 280: Language and Formal Reasoning

SP 2008, SP 2007, WI 2007, AU 2006

        Ling 201: Introduction to Language in the Humanities

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Academic service

2009     Organizing committee: Semantics and Linguistic Theory  (SALT) 19

2004     Co-editor of SNU Working Papers Vol. 3.

2003-2004     Co-developer of the e-learning contents for the college class 'Structure of English Sentences'. Korea National Open University, Seoul. (supported by Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development)

2003     Graduate student representative, Department of English Language and English Literature, Seoul National University.

2000-2001     Manager of the computer lab, College of Humanities, Seoul National University.

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