People: Faculty

Dr. Chung-hye Han

778-782-5507
chunghye@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 9215

personal website
Experimental Syntax Lab website

Research Areas

 Syntax and Semantics
 Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation is a cross-linguistic investigation into the structure and interpretation of imperatives (2000, Garland Publishing, New York). Her main areas of research are syntax, semantics and their interface, syntax and semantics of Korean, corpus linguistics, and linguistic applications of Tree Adjoining Grammars. She is also interested in computational applications of linguistic theories, and has worked on Korean-English machine translation, developed and implemented a Korean morphological tagger and a Tree Adjoining Grammar for Korean. Her current projects include: syntax and semantics of questions, quantifier scope and negation in head-final languages and its implications for clause structure, and using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammars to model compositional semantics.

Selected publications include:

• Han, Chung-hye, Jeffrey Lidz and Julien Musolino. 2007. Verb-raising and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from Negation and Quantifier Scope. Linguistic Inquiry, 38:1, 1-47.
• Han, Chung-hye. 2006. Variation in Form-Meaning Mapping between Korean and English Counterfactuals. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 15:2, 167-193.
• Han, Chung-hye and Maribel Romero. 2004. Syntax of Whether/Q...Or Questions: Ellipsis Combined with Movement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 22:3, 527-564.
• Han, Chung-hye and Jong-Bok Kim. 2004. Are There "Double Relative Clauses" in Korean? Linguistic Inquiry, 35:2, 315-337.
• Han, Chung-hye. 2001. Force, Negation and Imperatives. The Linguistic Review, 12:4, 289-325.
• Han, Chung-hye. 2000. The evolution of do-support in English Imperatives. In Pintzuk et al. eds., Diachronic Syntax: Models and Mechanisms, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 275-295.
• Han, Chung-hye. 2000. The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar. Series in Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Publishing/Routledge, New York.