Soo-Hwan Lee

Theoretical

Accepted | TP in Oshiwambo subject nominalizations. Glossa. (with Olivia Ndapo) [link]
2024 | Syntactic negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalizations. Syntax. (with Selikem Gotah) [link]
2024 | Addressees as applied arguments. The Journal of Studies in Language. [link]
2024 | Two types of English possessive free relatives. Studies in Linguistics. [link] & [preprint]
2018 | Suppletion in serial verb constructions. Studies in Generative Grammar. [link]

To appear | The Person Case Constraint (PCC) and honorification. Proceedings of CLS 60. [link]
2024 | Subject nominalizations in Setswana. Proceedings of LSA 2024. [link]
2023 | Negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalizations. Proceedings of NELS 53. (with Selikem Gotah) [link]
2023 | Linearly adjacent allomorphs and syntactic copies. Proceedings of CLS 58. [link]
2023 | Introducing arguments beyond the thematic domain. Proceedings of LSA 2023. [link]
2022 | Korean case stacking and the nominal template. Proceedings of PLC 45. (with Yining Nie) [link]
2020 | Speech act phrases in Korean nominal structures. Proceedings of JK 27. [link]
2020 | Prosody and EPP in Swahili. Proceedings of AMP 2019. [link]
2019 | Nominal mismatches in Swahili locatives. Proceedings of LSA 2019. (with Doo-Won Lee) [link]
2018 | Suppletive allomorphy conditioned by humbleness in Korean. Proceedings of BLS 44. (with Minjung Kim) [link]

2023 | Formality weakening and the underspecified expressive yo in Korean. In Elin McCready and Hiroki Nomoto, editors. Discourse Particles in Asian Languages. Routledge. [link] & [preprint]

2024 | Language model performance on English control constructions and its implications. The Journal of Linguistic Science. [link] & [preprint]
2023 | Do language models know how to be polite?. Proceedings of SCiL 2023. (with Shaonan Wang) [link]
2023 | Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). (with 443 authors) [link]
2022 | Can language models capture syntactic associations without surface cues? A case study of reflexive anaphor licensing in English control constructions. Proceedings of SCiL 2022. (with Sebastian Schuster) [link]
2021 | NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English. Proceedings of CoNLL 2021. (with +Alicia Parrish, +Sebastian Schuster, +Alex Warstadt, Omar Agha, Zhuoye Zhao, Samuel R. Bowman, and Tal Linzen) [+ = equal contribution] [link]
2021 | Does Putting a Linguist in the Loop Improve NLU Data Collection? Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021. (with Alicia Parrish, Will Huang, Omar Agha, Nikita Nangia, Alex Warstadt, Karmanya Aggarwal, Emily Allaway, Tal Linzen, and Samuel R. Bowman) [link]

2024 | Do language models (LMs) know how to be polite? LM performance on linguistic dependencies sensitive to politeness. Seminar talk in the Integrated Language Science and Technology (ILST) at the University of Pennsylvania.
2024 | The syntax of subject nominalizations in Gĩkũyũ. Colloquium in the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota, NYU Syntax Brown Bag.
2024 | Subject nominalizations in Ewe and Oshiwambo (joint work with Selikem Gotah and Olivia Ndapo). Yale Syntax Reading Group.
2023 | A in A’-domain. Implicational Hierarchies in Clausal Complementation Workshop.
2023 | Addressees as applied arguments. S-Lab at the University of Maryland, The Korean Generative Grammar Circle & Hansung University Workshop.
2022 | Introducing arguments in and out of the thematic domain: Evidence from Korean case markers. Penn Syntax Lab, MIT Syntax Square, Yale Syntax Reading Group.