Jong-Bok Kim

Professor Jong-Bok Kim holds a position at Kyung Hee University's Department of English Language and Literature and directs the Institute for the Study of Language and Information. His research focuses on syntax, semantics, and construction-based analyses of English and Korean, with a particular emphasis on contrastive linguistics, corpus-driven studies, and formal grammar frameworks. A recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, he has authored numerous influential books and articles on linguistic topics including negation, ellipsis, and cross-linguistic comparisons.

Research interests span syntactic and semantic interfaces, corpus-based analyses of constructions like clefts and sluicing, and theoretical approaches to language processing. His work integrates typological insights with formal syntactic frameworks such as HPSG and Construction Grammar. Over 30 years of grants include leadership in National Research Foundation projects on grammatical contrasts, corpus-based syntax, and multilingual processing systems.

Key contributions include seminal works like English and Korean in Contrast (2024), Syntactic Constructions in English (2020), and foundational studies on Korean negation and sluicing. His research bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in language education and computational linguistics.

• Lead over 20 major research grants since 1997
• Authored/edited 12 academic books
• Published >200 peer-reviewed articles

Labs/Teams: Directs Kyung Hee's Language and Information Institute, collaborates internationally on projects involving cross-linguistic syntax and computational grammar systems.