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Min-Joo Kim is a Professor in the Department of English at Texas Tech University's College of Arts & Sciences, with additional affiliations to the Linguistics Program and Philosophy department. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2004) and specializes in theoretical syntax, semantics, and their interface. Her secondary research interests include language acquisition, pragmatics, and grammaticalization.
Kim's research investigates linguistic phenomena including Noun Modification, E-type Anaphora, Existential Sentences, Free Choice, Implicature, Aspect, and Evidentiality. Her work employs formal linguistic frameworks to analyze Korean and English data, frequently exploring cross-linguistic patterns and cognitive interfaces.
Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on syntax-semantics-pragmatics interfaces, with recent work examining anaphoric systems, copular constructions, and temporal-aspectual phenomena. The research consistently integrates formal linguistic theory with empirical analysis of Korean and cross-linguistic data.
Awards and Honors:
- TTU's 2019 Integrated Scholar
- 2021 President's Faculty Book Award
- Outstanding Faculty Research Award (Inaugural Recipient)
- National Humanities Center Summer Residency Fellowship
- C. L. Baker Award nominee (Linguistic Society of America, 2022)
As Director of Linguistics at TTU for over 10 years, Kim established the linguistics program's foundation. She has served as Associate Editor for Glossa: a journal of general linguistics and maintains extensive disciplinary service through editorial and conference activities.
