Eunkyung Yi
Dept of English Education
Ewha Womans University
I’m an associate professor in the Department of English Education at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. Born and raised in Seoul, I was always in love with foreign language learning, which eventually evolved into a deeper interest in language and how it works. I completed my BA and MA at Seoul National University and did my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Koenig at the State University of New York at Buffalo. I joined Ewha in 2021. My research interests include the syntax-semantics interface, online sentence planning, discourse processing,and crosslinguistic differences in language processes.
Education
PhD in Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA. 2016
MA in English Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. 2007
BA in English Language and Literature (double major in Chinese Language and Literature), Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. 2001
Publications
Refereed journal articles
Park, Sang-Hee & Eunkyung Yi (2024). Definiteness and context in double-accusative ditransitives in Korean: An experimental approach. Linguistic Research 41(3), 345–366.
Yi, Eunkyung (2024). The interplay of grammar and discourse: Evidence from monologic settings in Korean. Language and Information 28(2), 99–118.
Yi, Eunkyung & Sang-Hee Park (2023). Spoken acceptability judgment, reaction time and a comparison with written judgment. Journal of Cognitive Science 24(4), 437–464.
Yun, Hongoak, Eunkyung Yi & Sanghoun Song (2023). Exploring AI-generated English relative clauses in comparison to human production. Journal of Cognitive Science 24(4), 465–496.
Yi, Eunkyung (2023). The role of case markers in sentence planning. Korean Journal of Linguistics 48(1), 27–48. [Link]
Shin, Unsub, Eunkyung Yi & Sanghoun Song (2023). Investigating a neural language model’s replicability of psycholinguistic experiments: a case study of NPI licensing. Frontiers in Psychology 14:937656. [Link]
Yi, Eunkyung, Hyowon Cho & Sanghoun Song (2022). An experimental investigation of discourse expectations in neural language models. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 22, 1101–1115. [Link]
Yi, Eunkyung & Sang-Hee Park (2022). Can focus salvage the double accusative ditransitive construction in Korean? An experimental investigation. Linguistic Research 39(2), 235–274. [Link]
Park, Sang-Hee & Eunkyung Yi (2021). An experimental study on the production of the double accusative ditransitives in Korean. The Mirae Journal of English Language and Literature 26(4), 79–99.
Park, Sang-Hee & Eunkyung Yi (2021). Perception-production asymmetry for Korean double accusative ditransitives. Linguistic Research 38(1), 27–52. [Link]
Yi, Eunkyung & Jean-Pierre Koenig (2021). Grammar modulates discourse expectations: evidence from causal relations in English and Korean. Language and Cognition 13(1), 99–127. [Link]
Yi, Eunkyung & Hongoak Yun (2019). Unraveling syntactic and semantic effects on structural priming: evidence from Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 44(3), 657–677.
Yi, Eunkyung, Koenig, Jean-Pierre & Douglas Roland (2019). Semantic similarity to high-frequency verbs affects syntactic frame selection. Cognitive Linguistics 30(3), 601–628. [Link]
Yun, Hongoak & Eunkyung Yi (2019). The role of frequency in the processing of giving and receiving events in Korean. Language Research 55(2), 253–279.
Yi, Eunkyung (2019). Implicit causality and discourse relations in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 44(1), 101–117.
Yi, Eunkyung (2017). Comparing between linguists’ and statistically-derived verb classes and its theoretical implications. Language and Information 21(1), 1–24.
Yi, Eunkyung (2016). What modulates the resultative alternation? A corpus-based study. Korean Journal of Linguistics 41(4), 661–678.
Yi, Eunkyung (2006). The fake reflexive resultative construction in Korean. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 6(1), 135–154.
Book chapter
Yi, Eunkyung & Koenig, Jean-Pierre (2016). Why verb meaning matters to syntax. In J. Fleischhauer, A. Latrouite & R. Osswald (eds.), Explorations of the syntax-semantics interface, pp. 57–76. Düsseldorf University Press.
Dissertation
Yi, Eunkyung (2016). Exploring the cognitive underpinnings of the correspondence between verb meaning and syntax. State University of New York at Buffalo. (Committee: Prof. Jean-Pierre Koenig (chair), Prof. Douglas Roland, & Prof. Gail Mauner). [Full Text]
Non-academic publication
Park, Yong-Yae, Eunkyung Yi, Hanbyul Jung, et al. (2025). High School English 1 & 2 (Ministry of Education-authorized textbook). Dong-A Publishing.
Recent Presentations
Son, Ha Leem & Eunkyung Yi (2025). “Boy and girl” or “girl and boy”: dialect, modality and frequency effects on the production of binomial expressions. Poster at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2025). University of Maryland, College Park, MA, USA.
Yi, Eunkyung (2022). The role of case markers in sentence planning: evidence from Korean. Talk at the 2022 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2022). August 11–12, Seoul, South Korea.
Yi, Eunkyung & Jia Kang (2021). The effects of input typicality (or variability) on the acquisition of argument structure constructions. Short talk at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2021). University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA (virtual due to the pandemic).
Yi, Eunkyung & Sang-Hee Park (2021). What reaction times can reveal behind acceptability judgments. Short talk at CUNY2021.
Teaching
Undergradaute
Introduction to English Linguistics
Seminar in English Linguistics
English Syntax
Pedagogical English Grammar
Practical English Grammar
English Phonetics
Gradaute
Seminar in English Linguistics and English Education
Seminar in English Education and Psycholinguistics
English Phonetics and Teaching Pronunciation