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Jong-Bok Kim is a linguist, teaching at Department of English Language and Linguistics, Kyung Hee University at Seoul. He served as Dean of Colleage of Humanities and Dean of Graduate School at Kyung Hee University, Seoul. He has been also working as director for the Institute for the Study of Language and Information of Kyung Hee University in Seoul. As a linguist, he has been working on syntax, semantics, and computational linguistics for Korean and English, and is regarded as one of the most active, respectful linguists in Korea.

He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 1996. His Ph.D. dissertation is titled {\it The Grammar of Negation: A Constraint-based Perspective}, whose revised version was published by CSLI Publications. This book addresses three fundamental questions in the study of negation: What are the main ways of expressing sentential negation? What are the distributional properties of lexically-encoded negative elements? And, what implications do the answers to these two questions have for the theory of grammar? In answering these questions, the book investigates various aspects of negation in Korean, English, French and Italian. Addressing both empirical and theoretical issues relating to negation in these languages, he develops nonderivational, lexicalist analysis within the constraint-based framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The analysis offered in this book as well as the developed version offered in the coauthored paper `Negation with Movement' (published in 2002 by NLLT) has been widely accepted by linguists pursuing nonderivational analyses.

Ever since his Ph.D. degree, he has published numerous, high-quality papers in prestigious domestic and international journals. His papers have appeared in many top-notched journals including (Linguistic Inquiry, NLLT, Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics, Lingua, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Functions of Language, Studies in Language). The range of topics he has been working on also quite vary impressive. He has researched phenomena in English and Korean including agreement, raising, causative construction, floating quantifier, NP structures, adverbial case systems, apposition, aspect, cleft, elliptical constructions, and so forth. Many of his papers are co-worked with leading linguists in the world (e.g., Arto Antila (Stanford U.), Mark Davies (BYU), Frank Van Eynde (Leuven U.), Laura Michalies (Colorado U.), Ivan Sag (Stanford U.), and Peter Sells (York U.))

In addition to the paper publication, he has also published internationally recognized textbook {\it English syntax: an introduction} (2008, CSLI Publications). This coauthored textbook has been worldwidely used as an undergraduate and graduate textbook. More than one of his books have also been nominated as the National Academy of Sciences, Korea too. He recently published {\it The Syntactic Structure of Korean: A Construction Grammar Perspective (2016, Cambridge U. Press), which is highly welcomed by those working in linguistics as well as in the Korean language.

His research has also extended to computational implementation and developed a computationally feasible grammar for Korean, Korean Resource Grammar. The results of this implementation, in particular, dealing with coordination, relative clauses, floating quantifiers, light verb, case phenomena, and so forth, have been also published in internationally well-recognized journals and cited by many computational linguists.

For the last years, his research has focused on corpus-based or data-driven research. He has been working with Mark Davies, a corpus linguist designing the most widely used corpora in the world COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English), COHA (Corpus of Historical American English), and so forth. The co-work has worked on English causative constructions, whose results have been published in English Language and Linguistics as well as Linguistics. He has also been working on elliptical constructions in Korean and English. Language comprehension uses relations between form and meaning, but in elliptical constructions this mapping relationship is not one-to-one correspondence. In this sense, these phenomena challenge both linguistic and psycholinguistic theories. His work on sluicing and fragment answers has been published in top-notched journals and has caught a lot of attention for the development of non-derivational analyses.

His outstanding research records have won him international reputation that only a few can follow. The most notable reward he received is Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2018. He was also a Fulbright Research Fellow (2004-2005), Distinguished Research Fellow of the National Research Foundation of Korea (2011-2016), and Kyung Hee Univ. Fellow (2011-2013, 2017-2019). He also received Distinguished Research Award from the Ministry of Education, Korea (2017).

Research Interests: Syntax, Semantics, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics

Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford U., 1996 M.A. in English Linguistics, Kyung Hee U., 1991 B.A. in English Lang. and Literature, Kyung Hee U., 1989 Teaching Positions: Dept. of English Lang. and Lit. Kyung Hee U., 1998-Now

Administration Positions
Dean, Graduate School, Kyung Hee U. 2018-2019 Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, Kyung Hee U. 2013-2018 Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Kyung Hee U. 2006-2011 Director, Institute of the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee Univ. 2006-now

Academic Honors
Alexender Von Humboldt Research Award 2018 Distinguished Research Award from the Ministry of Education, Korea 2017 Kyung Hee U. Fellow 2011-2012, 2017-2018 Distinguished Research Fellow, the National Research Foundation of Korea, 2011-2016 Fulbright Research Fellow, 2004-2005

Research projects
Processing the Silence. Global Research Network Program, National Research Foundation of Korea. 2017-2020 Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of English What Constructions: A Corpus-based Approach. Global Research Network Program, National Research Foundation of Korea. 2014-2017

Books
Syntactic Constructions in English. Cambridge University Press. 2020 (to appear) The Syntactic Structures of Korean: A Construction Based Perspective. Cambridge University Press. 2016. English syntax: an introduction. (Coauthored). Stanford: CSLI Publications. 2008. The Grammar of Negation: A Constraint-Based Approach. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 2000.