About Me
I am an assistant professor at the Department of English Language Education, Incheon National University. I study the syntax and semantics of human language, employing corpus-based and experimental approaches.
Teaching Positions
- Understanding Languages
- English Composition for Beginners
- English Grammar
- Contrastive Analysis of English and Korean and Grammar Instruction
- English Syntax and School Grammar
- Analysis of English Constructions and Descriptive Grammar
- Applications of Big Data to English Teaching
- Introduction to English Linguistics
- Contrastive Analysis of English and Korean
- Understanding English Syntactic Structures
- Prescriptive and Descriptive English Grammar
- Modern Grammar and Analysis of Constructions
- Contemporary English Grammar
- Exploring English Syntax and Semantics
- English Big Data and Analysis
- Big Data and English Learning
- Syntax I (graduate course)
- Topics in Syntactic and Semantic Theories (graduate course)
- Advanced English Grammar I
- Advanced English Grammar II
- Special Lectures on Linguistics
- English Constructions and Acquisition (graduate course)
- General Linguistics and History of Linguistic Doctrines
- Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics
- Languages of the World
- The Theoretical Basis and Categories of Grammar
- Syntax
- Semantics and Morphology
- Quantitative Linguistics and New Information Technologies
- Language and Culture
Academic Honors and Research Grants
2024. 05. - 2025. 04.
- Principal Investigator. Transitive out of -ing-construction in American and British English: A collostructional approach. Incheon National University.
2023. 10. - 2024. 04.
- Principal Investigator. Acquisition of the how come-construction: A corpus-based study. Incheon National University.
2021. 09. - 2022. 08.
- Principal Investigator. Synchronic properties and diachronic changes of what about and how about constructions: A big-data approach. National Research Foundation of Korea.
2020. 09 - 2021. 08.
- Principal Investigator. Mismatches and parallelism in Korean gapping: An experimental perspective. National Research Foundation of Korea.
2011 - 2013
- Fulbright Fellowship. Korean-American Educational Commission.
Publications
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The Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
The Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University
English Studies (Accepted) (A&HCI)
English Studies 105(2): 263-289 (A&HCI)
Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 23: 1014-1035 (SCOPUS)
English Studies 104(5): 804-831 (A&HCI)
Journal of Linguistics 59(2): 257-291 (SSCI/A&HCI)
Linguistic Research 39(Special Edition): 51-96 (SCOPUS)
Studies in Modern Grammar 115: 77-117 (KCI)
Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 22: 675-694 (SCOPUS)
Linguistic Research 39(1): 55-93 (SCOPUS)
Korean Journal of Linguistics 46(3): 635-670 (KCI)
Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 21: 912-935 (SCOPUS)
Linguistic Research 38(2): 301-327 (SCOPUS)
Studies in Modern Grammar 110: 43-88 (KCI)
Korean Journal of Linguistics 46(1): 79-106 (KCI)
Studies in Generative Grammar 30(4): 487-516 (KCI)
Studies in Linguistics 57: 107-139 (KCI)
Korean Journal of Linguistics 45(3): 477-513 (KCI)
Korean Journal of Linguistics 44(3): 363-394 (KCI)
32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 32) – The 25th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP 25), 873-881. (SCOPUS)
Linguistic Research 35(Special Edition): 207-232 (SCOPUS)
Studies in Linguistics 47: 143-165 (KCI)
Studies in Modern Grammar 97: 55-88 (KCI)
Language and Information 13(1): 57-75 (KCI)
Presentations
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2023 LSK Winter Conference, December 9, 2023. Kyung Hee University.
2023 KSLI Fall Conference, November 18, 2023. Hanyang University.
The 31st Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing, December 16, 2022. The Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University.
Linguistics Colloquium (COLLING), Grade School, HUFSENG, November 17, 2022. English Department, Grad School, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
2022 KASELL Spring Conference, May 28, 2022. Online Conference hosted by the Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics.
2021 ELSOK (The English Linguistics Society of Korea) Fall Conference, December 18, 2021. Online Conference hosted by the English Linguistics Society of Korea.
2021 LSK (The Linguistic Society of Korea) Summer Conference, August 12, 2021. Online Conference hosted by the Linguistic Society of Korea and the Department of English Language and Literature BK 21 Project Phrase Four Team.
2021 LSK (The Linguistic Society of Korea) Summer Conference, August 12, 2021. Online Conference hosted by the Linguistic Society of Korea and the Department of English Language and Literature BK 21 Project Phrase Four Team.
2020 Dongguk Occasional Workshop on Mismatches in Ellipsis, December 11-12, 2020. Dongguk University.
2020 SNU Workshop on Case and Related Issues, October 23–24, 2020. Seoul National University.
2020 International Conference on Linguistics, October 16–17, 2020. Kyung Hee University.
2020 International Conference on Linguistics, October 16–17, 2020. Kyung Hee University.
2020 International Conference on Linguistics, October 16–17, 2020. Kyung Hee University.
Linguistic Evidence 2020, February 13–15, 2020. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2019 Fall Conference of the Korean Society for Language and Information (KSLI), November 30, 2019. Seoul National University.
2019 Fall Conference of the Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL), November 9, 2019. Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
2019 Conference of the Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (KACL), November 2, 2019. Pusan National University.
Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP) 2019, October 2–4, 2019. CNRS & Université Paris 8.
2018 Fall Conference of the Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL), October 27, 2018. Dongguk University.
2018 Fall Conference of the Linguistic Association of Korea, October 20, 2018. Chosun University.
2015 ICKL & Harvard-ISOKL, July 24–26, 2015. University of Chicago.
10th Annual Purdue Linguistics Association Student Symposium, April 10–11, 2015. Purdue University.
Northwest Linguistics Conference 2012, April 7-8, 2012. University of Washington.
2010 ELSOK Fall Conference, November 27, 2010. Kyungwon University.
Northwest Linguistics Conference 2009, April 25-26, 2009. University of British Columbia.
Service
2023. 07. - 2025. 06.
- Scouting Board Member of the Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea (DISCOG)
2023. 03. - 2025. 02.
- Secretary General of the Korean Society for Language and Information (KSLI)
2023. 03. - 2025. 02.
- Research Board Member of the Korea Association of Secondary English Education (KASEE)
2023. 01. - 2024.12.
- Publications Board Member of the Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK)
2021 - 2022
- Public Relation Board Member of the Korean Society for Language and Information (KSLI)
2020 - 2021
- Publications Board Member of the Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL)
2019
- Treasurer of the Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (KACL)
2019
- Organizing Committee Member of the 2019 Conference of the Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (KACL)
2018
- Organizing committee member of the 2018 LSK (Linguistics Society of Korea) conference
2012 - 2013
- Co-organizer for SALSA (Symposium about Language and Society – Austin) XXI