Jeeyoung Peck

Jeeyoung Peck is a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Hanyang University, Seoul. Before joining Hanyang University, she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of the Pacific in Stockton (2008-2012). She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University in 2008. Her primary research interests include the aspect system and the interface between lexical semantics and argument realization patterns in Modern Chinese. Additionally, she explores syntactic change in the history of Chinese and second language acquisition. During her visit at Stanford University, she will investigate the linguistic encoding system of temporal information in Modern Chinese.