Soo-Hwan Lee

Theoretical

Dissertation

2024 | Introducing Arguments and Case. Doctoral dissertation. NYU. [dissertation] [preprint]

Papers

Revised & resubmitted | No escape from syntax: Gĩkũyũ nominalizations and the Complex Head analysis.
2025 | TP in Oshiwambo subject nominalizations. Glossa. (with Olivia Ndapo) [paper]
2024 | Syntactic negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalizations. Syntax. (with Selikem Gotah) [paper] [preprint]

Conference presentations

2025 | Two types of subject nominalizations in Gĩkũyũ. LSA 2025.
2024 | Tense-associated nominalization in Oshiwambo. ACAL 55. (with Olivia Ndapo)
2024 | The PCC and honorification. CLS 60. (a revised version of this work is available [here])
2024 | Agent nominalization without of-insertion in Setswana. LSA 2024. [proceedings paper]
2023 | Negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalization. NELS 53. (with Selikem Gotah)
2023 | Introducing arguments in and out of the thematic domain. JK 30.
2022 | Linearly adjacent allomorphs and syntactic copies. CLS 58. [proceedings paper]
2021 | Korean case stacking and the nominal template. PLC 45. (with Yining Nie) [proceedings paper]
2020 | Swahili locatives and underspecification in PF. LSA 2020. (with Inkie Chung)
2019 | Speech act phrases in Korean nominal structures. JK 27. [proceedings paper]
2019 | Prosodic boundaries and EPP in Swahili. AMP 2019. [proceedings paper]
2019 | Nominal mismatches in Swahili locatives. LSA 2019. (with Doo-Won Lee) [proceedings paper]
2018 | Suppletive allomorphy of pronouns conditioned by humbleness in Korean. BLS 44. (with Minjung Kim) [proceedings paper]

Book chapter

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

Computational & experimental

Papers

In prep. | LLM performance on Korean linguistic phenomena. (with Gyu-Ho Shin and Chanyoung Lee)
2024 | Language model performance on English control constructions and its implications. Journal of Linguistic Science. [link]
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]

Invited talks

Upcoming | What Bantu languages tell us about nominalizations. Plenary talk at the 10th Asian Junior Linguists (AJL 10) Conference at International Christian University (ICU), Invited talk at Sogang University.
2025 | The Person Case Constraint (PCC) and the constraints on honorific markers. Syntax/semantics reading group at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
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 | Are you a subject, an object, or something else? Case markers and argument structure. Invited talk in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida, Invited talk in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky.
2024 | Subject nominalizations in Ewe and Oshiwambo (joint work with Selikem Gotah and Olivia Ndapo). Penn Syntax Lab, 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.