Seok-Hwa Yoon. 2001. Earning Dividends on Lexical Knowledge. Studies in Modern Grammar 25, 139-155. In this paper, we argue that natural language processing requires dictionaries more sophisticated than any currently available. This paper describes a project to meet that need by automating lexicography. The automated lexicography system undertaken here "runs syntax in reverse," examining sentences to detect lexical features by their syntactic effects. This project envisions processing large bodies of edited, free text, such as newspapers, in order to identify the lexical features of words. The project described here focuses initially the acquisition of lexical features in the area of aspect. The requirements for acquiring these features for a large segment of the language are examined. The conclusion is that automated lexicography, while complex, is feasible and worthwhile.

Yoon, Seok-Hwa. On Distribution of pro in Korean. Studies in Modern Grammar 14, 63-83. The purpose of this paper is to survey James Huang`s proposal regarding PRO and pro with special reference to Korean, and to propose a new analysis on the distribution of pro in Korean, and to present some theoretical implications of the surface syntactic representations on parameteric variation with Chomsky principles and parameters approach in syntax. I argue that Korean exercises on option that can delete arguments in surface representations, and that Korean actually shows a sort of subject-verb and object-verb agreement in honorific expressions.