Research

I am a syntactician interested in morphosyntactic theory, variation, and change. I have worked on topics including nominalisation, case assignment, reduplication, pronominal structure, and contact-induced change.

In my work, I draw on original data collected through a range of methodologies, including fieldwork, collaborative resource creation, corpus development, and (psycho)linguistic experiments.

My research has investigated languages including Kalmyk Oirat, Khalkha Mongolian, Korean, Megrelian, Singapore English (Singlish), and Turkish.

Works

  • 2026. Young Singaporean English: Current developments in CSE morphosyntax in a digital world. Jakob Leimgruber, WIlkinson Gonzales, Mohamed Hafiz, Jun Jie Lim, Nick Huang, & Mie Hiramoto. Cambridge Elements in World Englishes. doi.org/10.1017/9781009634717
  • Under review. Asymmetries in plural wh-reduplication in Korean and beyond. Seoyeon Jang & Jun Jie Lim.
  • 2026. Small nominalized clauses in Khalkha Mongolian: Asymmetries in mixed extended projections. Jun Jie Lim. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 44(8). doi.org/10.1007/s11049-025-09692-2
  • 2025. Sociolinguistic variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia. Mohamed Hafiz, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob Leimgruber, Wilkinson Gonzales, & Jun Jie Lim. World Englishes, 44(1–2), 218–236. doi.org/10.1111/weng.12700
  • 2024. Subject agreement in Kalmyk: Implications for nominative case assignment. Jun Jie Lim. Acta Mongolica, 22(606), 126–139. doi.org/10.22353/am.202401.10
  • 2024. Clause-final adverbs in Colloquial Singapore English revisited. Jun Jie Lim, Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Gonzales, & Jakob Leimgruber. Journal of English Linguistics, 52(4), 321–345. doi.org/10.1177/00754242241278838
  • 2025. Functional expansion and syntactic change in Colloquial Singapore English Is it. Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Jun Jie Lim, & Mohamed Hafiz. In S. Rüdiger, S. Leuckert, & J. R. E. Leimgruber (Eds.), World Englishes and social media: Platforms, variation, and meta-discourse, 15–39. Bloomsbury. [link]
  • 2022. From Malay to Colloquial Singapore English: A case study of sentence-final particle sia. Mie Hiramoto, WIlkinson Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Jun Jie Lim, & Jessica Choo. In A. Ngefac, H. Wolf, & T. Hoffmann (Eds.), World Englishes and creole languages today: Existing paradigms and current trends in action, 117–130. Lincom. [link]
  • To appear. Containment matters for dependent case assignment: Evidence from Khalkha Mongolian. Jun Jie Lim. Proceedings of NELS 56.
  • To appear. Dissociating genitive case from possessor agreement: Evidence from Khalkha Mongolian nominalised clauses. Jun Jie Lim. Proceedings of WAFL 16.
  • 2025. Two positions for wh‑reduplication: Evidence from Korean and Turkish. Jun Jie Lim & Seoyeon Jang. In Michael Barrie (Ed.), Proceedings of WAFL 18, 131–140. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 97.
  • 2025. Nominalisations without DP: Dissociating genitive case assignment and possessor agreement. Jun Jie Lim. In Nikolas Webster, Ya˘gmur Kiper, Richard Wang, & Sichen Larry Lyu (Eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 41, 390–399. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
  • 2024. Finiteness, agreement and subject case in two varieties of Mongolian. Jun Jie Lim. In Erdene Tumen-Ochir, Julia Sinitsyna, & Shigeru Miyagawa (Eds.), Proceedings of WAFL 17, 107–118. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 94.
  • 2024. ACAL in SoCAL: Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Yaqian Huang, Nina Hagen Kaldhol, Jun Jie Lim & Anthony Struthers-Young. (Eds.). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11189852
  • To appear. Ямаран учрар темән җил уга үлдсмб? [Why don’t we have the Year of the Camel?] Darina Gedeeva, Ghilyana Dordzhieva, (trans.), Jun Jie Lim (trans.), & Tsonkhlaev, T. (illus.).
  • 2025. Selected fieldwork materials from Bulgan sum: Part I: Songs and interviews. Ghilyana Dordzhieva, Darina Gedeeva, & Jun Jie Lim. Printed by Snowfall Press.
  • 2025. Ямр учрар бөкүн җиигдг болҗ: Хальмг тууль [Why the mosquito buzzes: A Kalmyk folktale]. Darina Gedeeva, Ghilyana Dordzhieva, (trans.), Jun Jie Lim (trans.), & Gilyana Dobrovolskaya (illus.). Printed by Snowfall Press. studykalmyk.com/mosquito
  • 2025+. Kalmyk Living Dictionary. Darina Gedeeva, Ghilyana Dordzhieva, Jun Jie Lim, Amber Frey, Kianna Rojas, Sina Sabet, Alana Schiffel-Golab, Carlee June Schulz, Kaylee Tran, Jasper Wu, & Chunxiao Zhang. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. livingdictionaries.app/kalmyk
  • 2024. Corpus of Singapore English Messages (CoSEM). Wilkinson Gonzales, Mohamed Hafiz, Mie Hiramoto, Nick Huang, Jakob Leimgruber, Jun Jie Lim. github.com/wdwgonzales/CoSEM
  • 2021+. UCSD Field Methods: Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam, 2020–21. Angela Ramirez, Emily Clem, Sihun Jung, Jun Jie Lim & Milad Mayel. California Language Archive. dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NP23GM

Presentations

  • 2027, Jan. Inclusory pronouns in two Mongolic languages: Insights into pronominal structure. Jun Jie Lim. LSA Annual Meeting 2027, San Francisco, USA.
  • 2025, Oct. Containment matters for dependent case assignment: Evidence from Khalkha Mongolian. Jun Jie Lim. NELS 56, New York University, USA.
  • 2025, Aug. Passives in CSE revisited: The emergence of the tio-passive. Mohamed Hafiz, Nick Huang, Wilkinson Gonzales, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob Leimgruber, & Jun Jie Lim. NWAV-AP 8, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • 2025, Jun. Variation in clause-final adverbs in a corpus of Colloquial Singapore English. Jakob Leimgruber, Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Gonzales, & Jun Jie Lim. ICAME 46, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
  • 2024, Aug. Two positions for wh-reduplication within DP: Evidence from Korean and Turkish. Seoyeon Jang & Jun Jie Lim. SICOGG 26 & WAFL 18, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.
  • 2024, Jun. Wh-reduplication in Korean and Khalkha Mongolian. Seoyeon Jang & Jun Jie Lim. LSA Annual Meeting 2024, New York City, USA.
  • 2026, May. An account of the plural pronoun construction in Mongolian. Jun Jie Lim. S-Babble, UC San Diego, USA.
  • 2024, Sep. A progress report on Kalmyk revitalization efforts in the US. Jun Jie Lim. Language, Culture, Intercultural Communication Conference, Khovd, Mongolia.
  • 2021, Feb. A configurational account of case in Khalkha Mongolian. Jun Jie Lim. SCAMS, University of Southern California, USA.
  • 2021, Jun. Between transmission and diffusion: The case of sia in Singlish. Mie Hiramoto & Jun Jie Lim. Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, University of Hong Kong.
  • 2021, Feb. Sentence-final adverbs in Colloquial Singapore English revisited: Increasing frequency and stabilization in a WhatsApp corpus. Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, & Jun Jie Lim. NWAV-AP 6, National University of Singapore.
  • 2021, Oct. Panel discussant. “You don’t ask me to speak Mandarin!” Chineseness in Singapore. Panel: Who’s in and who’s out? Language identity and membership in Singapore. Jun Jie Lim. Nanyang Technological University, Virtual.

Teaching

  • 2026 Spring. LING 101 Mysteries of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics.
  • 2025 Fall. LING 101 Mysteries of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics.

As Instructor of Record

  • 2024 Summer. LIGN 120 Morphology.

As Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • 2025 Spring. LIGN 120 Morphology. Instructor: Gabriela Caballero.
  • 2025 Winter. LIGN 121 Syntax I. Instructor: Alex Rodriguez Aispuro.
  • 2024 Fall. LIGN 130 Semantics. Instructor: Joshua Wampler.
  • 2024 Spring. LIGN 130 Semantics. Instructor: Seoyeon Jang.
  • 2024 Winter. LIGN 101 Introduction to the Study of Language. Instructor: Will Styler.