BEAL Forum 6. Plenary Session 2. 
Date: Friday, 18 October 2024
Time: tba
Venue: Virtual event via Zoom, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Professor Sun-Hee Lee
Wellesley College
“Unpacking the Building Blocks: A Corpus-Based Exploration of Korean Lexical Bundles”
Abstract: The identification of grammatical functions and distributions of formulaic expressions or lexical bundles is crucial for understanding the cognitive building blocks of languages and identifying linguistic properties of specific registers or genres. Over the past two decades, corpus-based studies led by Douglas Biber and his collaborators have significantly contributed to the examination of lexical bundles in English, making them a major topic in linguistics, second language acquisition, and language pedagogy. This presentation focuses on a corpus-based investigation of Korean formulaic sequences, using a refined combinatoric morphemic bundle approach aligned with agglutinative typological properties.
Bio: Dr. Sun-Hee Lee, Professor of Korean at Wellesley College’s East Asian Languages and Cultures department, specializes in corpus linguistics, learner corpora, and discourse analysis. She has authored numerous publications on Korean grammar, corpus analysis, and learner language. Her research focuses on corpus-based analysis of media, gender, and personal narratives, alongside learner corpus research. Email: slee6@wellesley.edu.
Free and Open to the Public
Organizers:
BEAL Forum 6 Organizing Committee
Faculty Co-Chairs: Mineharu Nakayama, Marjorie K.M. Chan, and Zhiguo Xie
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Paul Ueda, Ka Fai Law, Yuki Hattori & Saori Wakita
Committee Members: tba
Sponsors:
East Asian Studies Center, Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL), Graduate Students of East Asian Languages and Literatures (GREALL), Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL), and other OSU units.
This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center, programming fund for GACL from the Council on Student Affairs, and by the James H-Y. Tai Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Fund.