CHUNGMIN LEE
PH.D. IN LINGUISTICS
Dept. of Linguistics Seoul National University
ABOUT
Biography
-Graduated from College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Seoul National University (1963)
-Ph.D. in Linguistics, Indiana University, 1973.
-Has been teaching Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Seoul Nat'l University since 1973 in the Dept of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program of the University.
-A Visiting Professor in Dept of Linguistics, UCLA (1999-2001).
-Started the Korean Lg and Ling Program at Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA as a Visiting Professor from 1986 to 1998.
-Taught a seminar course entitled Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Korean at EALC, UCLA , Winter 2000.
-Taught at the Ling Soc of America Linguistic Institute (held at UCSC) in 1991.
-Published articles in leading journals in Linguistics including Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Foundations of Language, Language Sciences and so on.
-Has worked on (in)definites, negative polarity, topic-focus, tense-aspect-modality, anaphora, argument structure, speech acts, in semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language acquisition and natural language processing.
-Served on the editorial board of Linguistics and Philosophy (1997-2003) and Journal of East Asian Linguistics (1999-2002 (as area editor:1992-1998)), and is currently an Editor of Pragmatics (2001-), on the advisory editors board of Journal of Pragmatics (2001-), on the special editorial board of The Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2001-), and editor-in chief of Journal of Cognitive Science (Seoul).
-Started a Cog Sci movement at Seoul Nat'l U early 1980's, instigated a graduate program of Cognitive Science at Seoul Nat'l U (1994) and Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul Nat'l U (1997), being Director of the Institute (1999-2001).
-President, The Korean Society for Cognitive Science, 1994-1996.
-Started the Int'l Conference on Cogsci (ICCS) in Seoul (1997), followed by 2nd one in Tokyo (1999), 3rd one in Beijing (2001), 4th one scheduled in Australia (2003).
-Taught at the Linguistic Society of America-sponsored Linguistic Institute (UCSB, summer 2003).
-Organized NSF-funded Workshop on Topic and Focus: Intonation and Meaning, with Daniel Buring and Matt Gordon.
-Conducted an int'l joint research project funded by Korea Research Foundation on Negative Polarity with Distinguished Scholar Ed Keenan, Korean scholars Seungho Nam and Daeho Chung, 1998-2000.
-Conducted a three-year soft science project on Semantic Structure of Predicates in Korean funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (1996-1999).
-Conducted a project on cross-linguistic Contrastive Predicate Topic, funded by Korea Research Foundation (2000-2002).
-Tenure reviewed several eminent American linguists.
Personal Info
Some of my works
2013 Change of Location and Change of Space
in James Pustejovsky, Pierrette Bouillon, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, and Chungmin Lee (eds.) Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory, 291-310, Springer.
2013 Combination of the Verb HA- ‘Do’and Entity Type Nouns in Korean: A Generative Lexicon Approach
with Im, Seohyun (1st), in James Pustejovsky, Pierrette Bouillon, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, and Chungmin Lee (eds.) Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory, 203-226, Springer.
2013 Generative Lexicon Approach to Derived Inchoative Verbs in Korean
with Kim, Yoonshin (1st), in James Pustejovsky, Pierrette Bouillon, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, and Chungmin Lee (eds.) Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory, 227-246, Springer.
2012 Phonetic Prominence of Contrastive Focus in English across Multiple Types and its Semantic Implications
with Cho, Hyesun (1st), English Language and Linguistics (Yengehak Yenkwu), 18(3), 1-29.
2011/2012 Evidentials and Modals: What Makes them Unique
International Journal of Language Data Processing (SDV) 35 & 36, 71-98.
2011 CF-Reduplication: Dynamic Prototypes and Contrastive Focus Effects
with Myunghyun Song (1st), in N. Ashton, A. Chereches, and D. Lutz (eds.), Proceed’s of SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) 21: 444-462, Dec, 2011.
2010 Scalar Implicatures Revisited
in Kishimoto, Hideki (ed.), Kotoba-no Taisyoo (Speech in Contrast), 67-80. Tokyo: Kurosio.
in Shu, Dingfang and Ken Turner (eds.), Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West, 33-73. Berne: Peter Lang.
2009 The Acquisition of Modality
in Chungmin Lee, Greg Simpson, and Youngjin Kim (eds.), The Handbook of Korean Psycholinguistics (General Editor: Ping Li), 187-220. Cambridge University Press.
in Chungmin Lee, Greg Simpson, and Youngjin Kim (eds.), The Handbook of Korean Psycholinguistics (General Editor: Ping Li), 23-33. Cambridge University Press.
2007 Contrastive (Predicate) Topic, Intonation, and Scalar Meanings
in Chungmin Lee, Matt Gordon, and Daniel Buring (eds.), Topic and Focus: Meaning and Intonation from a Crosslinguistic Perspective, Kluwer, 151-175.
2007 On Negative Imperatives in Korean
with Chung-hye Han Linguistic Inquiry 38, Spring, 373-394.
2006 Contrastive Topic/Focus and Polarity in Discourse
in K. von Heusinger and K. Turner (eds.), Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics, CRiSPI 16, Elsevier, 381-420.
in Y. Harada et al (eds.) PACLIC 18, Waseda University.
2003 Negative Polarity Items and Free Choice in Korean and Japanese: A Contrastive Study
Bilingual Research (Ichung enehak) 22. The Korean Society of Bilingualism.
2003 Contrastive Topic and/or Contrastive Focus
in Bill McClure (ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 12. CSLI, Stanford.
2002 Contrastive Topic and Proposition Structure
in Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie (ed.), Asymmetry in Grammar, John Benjamins. (Asymmetry Conference, UQAM, 2001)
2001 Negative Polarity in Korean and Japanese
in Noriko et al. (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10.
2001 Acquisition of Topic and Subject Markers in Korean
in Mineharu Nakayama (ed.) Issues in East Asian Language Acquisition, Kurosio Linguistics Workshop Series Vol. 7 (ed by T.
Kageyama), Kurosio Publishers, Tokyo, Japan.
2001 A `Removal' Type of Negative Predicates
with Jieun Joe, in Noriko et al. (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10.
2000 Numerical Classifiers, (In-)Definites, and Incremental Themes in Korea
in C. Lee and J. Whitman (eds.), Korean Syntax and Semantics: LSA Institute Workshop, Santa Cruz, '91. Thaehaksa: Seoul.
2000 Contrastive Predicates and Conventional Scales
in Okrent, Arika and John Boyle (eds.), Proceedings of CLS 36-1. 243-257.
1999 Contrasive Topic: A Locus of the Interface -Evidence from Korean and English
in K. Turner (ed.), The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View (CRiSPI 1), Elsevier Science.
1999 Types of NPIs and Nonverdicality in Korean and Other Languages
in Gianluca Storto (ed.), Syntax at Sunset 2, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 3
1999 Aspects of Aspect in Korean Psych-predicates: Implications for Psych-predicates
in W. Abraham and L. Kulikov (eds), Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity, Studies in Language Companion volume, John
Benjamins.
1997 Negative Polarity and Free Choice: Where Do They Come From?
in Paul Dekker, Martin Stokhof, Yde Venema (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC/University of
Amsterdam.
1996 Negative Polarity Items in English & Korean
Language Sciences 18, Nos 1-2, 505-523. Also in K. Jaszczolt and K. Turner (eds.), Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Elsevier Science, 1996.
1996 Generic Sentences Are Topic Constructions
in T Fretheim, JK Gundel (eds.) Reference and Referent Accessibility, Pragmatics and Beyond Series, 38, 214-222,
John Benjamins, 1996.
1993 Frozen Expressions and Semantic Representation
Language Research 29, No 3, 301-326.
1991 Argument Structure and Psych-Predicates
in A. Akeya (ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth Japanese-Korean Joint Conference on Formal Linguistics.
1989 (In)definites, Case Markers, Classifiers and Quantifiers in Korean
in S. Kuno et al. (eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics III, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.
1988 Speech Act Terms and Mood Indicators (in Korean)
Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 38 (1-4) pp. 127-141
1978 Negative Imperatives in Korean
in Chin-W. Kim, (ed.), Papers in Korean Linguistics, 149-156, Hornbeam Press, Columbia, S. Carolina.
LANGUAGE Vol. 51, No.1, March, 1975. 105-108.
BOOKS
1973 Abstract Syntax and Korean with Reference to English, Indiana University PhD Dissertation.