Prof. Dr. Jong-Bok Kim

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,English Language (Linguistics)
KeywordsSyntax (HPSG, head-driven phrase structure grammar, English/Korean, Construction Grammar, Semantics, Computational Linguistics
Honours and awards

2019: Alexandar Von Humboldt Research Award

Current contact address

CountryRepublic of Korea
CitySeoul
InstitutionKyung Hee University
InstituteSchool of English
Homepagehttp://web.khu.ac.kr/~jongbok/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Stefan MüllerInstitut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Manfred SailerInstitut für England- und Amerikastudien, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2019

Programme(s)

2018Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Kim is an international authority in the field of theoretical linguistics. His main areas of expertise are Korean and English syntax. He is working in the framework of Constructional Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. His analyses are implemented in computer processable grammars. During his stay, Professor Kim will further develop the framework of Constructional Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and work on the comparison of Korean and German syntax. His insights regarding Korean grammar will be integrated into the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project run at the Humboldt-University Berlin.

Publications (partial selection)

2020Jong-Bok KIM, Laura Michaelis Syntactic Constructions in English. Cambridge University Press, 2020