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Okgi Kim

PhD in Linguistics

About

I am a linguist with research interests at the syntax-semantics interface. I am also keenly interested in doing corpus-based studies. In 2022, I received my PhD in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Currently, I am an Academic Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of Language and Information (ISLI), Kyung Hee University, Seoul.

work in progress

  • under review. Synchronic and diachronic aspects of the English how come construction.
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim
  • in prep. Coordinated multiple wh-questoins in English and Korean.
  • in prep. English how dare construction: A case of grammatical constructionalization.

    • journal articles

  • conditionally accepted. English why not fragment questions: A corpus-based perspective. Glossa (special edition: Data-driven analyses of ellipsis (mis)matches)
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim
  • 2025. A corpus-based study of whether/if & wh coordination. Language and Information 29(1)
    • Okgi Kim
  • 2025. On the island (in)sensitivity of in-situ wh-questions in Korean. Journal of Linguistic Studies 30(1)
    • Okgi Kim and Seulkee Park
  • 2025. Mirative why-like what questions in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics 50(1): 175-206
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim
  • 2025. Inverted specificational pseudoclefts as last resort for specificational afterthoughts. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 25, 390-414
    • Okgi Kim
  • 2024. On the existence of Korean what-exclamatives. Linguistic Research 41(1): 135-168
    • Okgi Kim
  • 2023. Prosodic realization of identification and contrastive focus in Korean multiple accusative constructions. Glossa 8(1): 8242
    • Dong Jin Kim, Okgi Kim, and Hanyong Park
  • 2023. Diachronic developments of the concessive though-fronting construction in American English: A corpus-based perspective. English Studies 104(5): 804-831
    • Jungsoo Kim and Okgi Kim
  • 2023. Korean reformulative accusative construction as vacuous reformulative apposition. Linguistic Research 40(2): 217-244
    • Okgi Kim
  • 2022. On why-like how-questions. Studies in Generative Grammar 32(3): 383-404
    • Okgi Kim
  • 2022. Negative wh-constructions in Korean: A discourse-based approach. Studies in Generative Grammar 32(1): 49-74
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim
  • 2017. English how come constructions: A diachronic perspective. Language and Information 21(1): 121-134
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim
  • 2015. English much of an N' construction: A corpus-based approach. Studies in Mordern Grammar 86: 47-70
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim
  • 2014. A note on the right dislocation construction in English. English Language and Linguistics 20(2): 93-106
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim
  • 2014. English how come construction: A double life. Studies in Generative Grammar 21(4): 587-607
    • Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim

    Proceedings

  • Kim, Okgi. 2022. On Korean what-exclamatives. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 52) Vol. 2, 149-158.

  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. Reformulative multiple accusative constructions as vacuous reformulative appositions. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 56), 243-256.

  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. On the syntactic position of 'why'-like 'what' in Korean. In Holtz, Annie, Iva Kovac, Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, and Joanna Wall (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE), 66-78.

  • Kim, Okgi and Seulkee Park. 2021. Correlations between island (in)sensitivity and base positions of (non-)standard wh-in-situ. Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 95) 6(1): 806-814.

  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. On the syntax of 'why'-like 'how' in Korean. Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 95) 6(1): 788-796.

  • Kim, Okgi. 2020. On the syntax of negative wh-constructions in Korean. In Minh Le Nguyen, Mai Chi Luong, and Sanghoun Song (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 34), 113-121.

  • Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim, Rok Sim, and Okgi Kim. 2018. Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution. Proceedings of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 92), Volume 3.27: 1-14.

    • PhD Dissertation

  • Kim, Okgi. 2022. The syntax and semantics of non-standard wh-constructions in Korean. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

    • Presentations

  • Kim, Okgi, Seulkee Park, and Jong-Bok Kim. 2024. Elliptical constructions in sign languages. 2024 Chosun University Department of Applied Linguistics and Sign Languages - Graduate Seminar: Integration of Visual and Spoken Languages. Gwangju, Korea: Chosun University. December 13.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2024. Nonstandard 'why'-like 'what' construction as a mirative strategy in Korean. 2024 Fall Joint Conference of the Korean Generative Grammar Circle (KGGC) and the Korean Society for Language and Information (KSLI). Seoul, Korea: Chung-Ang University. November 9.
  • Park, Youn-Gyu, Okgi Kim, and Jong-Bok Kim. 2024. Korean coordinated wh-questions: A theoretical and experimental perspective. 2024 Research Workshop on Fragments in Seoul, September 7. Kyung Hee Institute for the Study of Language and Information.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2024. Elliptical why not? questions: A corpus-based perspective. Fragments 2024 research seminar. 2024 Joint Workshops on Fragments hosted by the Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (LVTC) research group. June 22. University of Vigo.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2024. English why not? fragment questions: A corpus-based perspective. The 45th International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME). June 18-22.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2023. Elliptical why not?: A corpus-based perspective. A talk given at The Linguistic Society of Korea Winter Conference. December 9.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2023. Korean what-exclamatives and their implications. An invited talk given at The Korean Society for Language and Information. September 23.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2022. Reformulative accusative constructions in Korean. A talk given online at 2022 LSK Winter Conference, Dec 10.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2022. On the syntax and semantics of `what'-exclamatives in Korean. A poster presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 96), Jan 6-9.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. How can `what'-questions be interpreted as `why'-quesitons? A talk given online at 2021 Winter Young Scholar Symposium, December 9-11, hosted by the Linguistic Society of Korea and ISLI, Kyung Hee University.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. There are `what'-exclamatives in Korean! A poster presented virtually at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 52), October 29-31, Rutgers University.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. Korean has `what'-exclamatives! A talk presented virtually at the 15th Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC15), Oct 15-17.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2021. A construction-based approach to negative wh-constructions in Korean. A talk given virtually at Korean Linguistics in Crosslinguistic Context (KLCC), June 4-6, Cornell University.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2021. Negative wh-constructions in Korean: A construction-based perspective. A talk given virtually at the 29th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP), June 4, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. On the syntax of `why'-like `what' in Korean. A talk presented virtually at the 29th edition of the Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE). January 26-28.
  • Kim, Okgi and Seulkee Park. 2021. The double life of mwes-ulo `what-with': A reason wh-adverb and an instrumental wh-nominal. A talk presented virtually at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA95). January 7-10, 2021. San Francisco, CA.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2021. On the syntax of `why'-like `how' in Korean. A poster presented virtually at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA95). January 7-10, 2021. San Francisco, CA.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2020. On the syntax of negative wh-constructions in Korean. A talk presented virtually at the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC34). October 24-26, 2020. VNU University of Science, Hanoi.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2020. Korean topic-type multiple accusative constructions as vacuous reformulative appositions. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 56). April 30-May 2, 2020. The University of Chicago (canceled due to COVID-19).
  • Kim, Okgi. 2020. Specificational afterthoughts in English as inverted specificational pseudoclefts. A poster presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 94). January 2-5, 2020. New Orleans, LA.
  • Kim, Dong Jin, Okgi Kim, and Hanyong Park. 2019. Prosodic realization of multiple accusative construction in Korean. A poster presented at Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019 (HISPhonCog2019). May 24-25, 2019. Hanyang University, Seoul.
  • Kim, Okgi. 2019. Specificational right dislocation in Korean as remnant-VP movement. A talk presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS11). April 26-28, 2019. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2018. English how come construction: A corpus-based perspective. A talk presented at the Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL15). April 7, 2018. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2015. Is much enough of a quantifier?: A corpus-based perspective. The 10th Annual Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium (PLA10). April 10-11, 2015. Purdue University, USA.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2014. Right dislocation construction in English: A constraintbased approach. The 30th Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC 30). April 26-27, 2014. Simon Fraser University, Canada.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2013. What with absolute constructions: A corpus-based approach. 2013 Joint Conference of Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (KACL) & The 2013 Linguistic Association of Korea. May 23, 2013. Jeonju University, Jeonju, Korea.
  • Kim, Okgi and Jong-Bok Kim. 2012. How come and why: similarities and differences. The 8th International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG8). April 26-27, 2014. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
  • Lee, Seung-Han, Okgi Kim, and Jong-Bok Kim. 2011. English how come construction: A double life. The 5th Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC5). October 28-30, 2011. The University of Arizona, USA.

    • Teaching

    Spring 2025

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • Understanding English Syntactic Phenomena
    • Big Data and English Learning
    • Contrasts between English and Korean

    Fall 2024

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • Semantics and Pragmatics of English
    • Contrastive Analysis of English and Korean

    Spring 2024

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • Exploring English Syntax and Semantics
    • Big Data and English Learning
    • Contrasts between English and Korean

    Winter 2023

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • Understanding English Syntactic Phenomena

    Winter 2023

    Department of English Language and Literature, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
    • English Grammar

    Fall 2023

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • English Syntax
    • English Grammar

    Fall 2023

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • Introduction to English Linguistics
    • Modern Grammar and Analysis of Constructions

    Spring 2023

    Department of English Language and Literature, Graduate School, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
    • Studies in Contemporary Syntactic Theories

    Spring 2023

    Department of English Language and Literature, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
    • Introduction to English Syntax

    Spring 2023

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • Big Data and English Learning
    • History of the English Language

    Fall 2022

    Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
    • Introduction to English Linguistics
    • English Semantics and Pragmatics

    Fall 2019 - Spring 2021

    Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
    • The Diversity of Human Language (as a Sole Instructor)

    Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

    Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
    • The Diversity of Human Language (as a Discussion Section Instructor)

    Projects

    Sep 2024 - Aug 2025. Principal Investigator of ``[BK21] Khreative U+ 2024 SDGs Junior Researcher Program'' - Implications from big data for (coordinated) multiple wh-questions in natural languages: An empirical and experimental perspective
    Oct 2024 - Present. Affiliated Member of ``LVTC (Language Variation and Textual Categorisation) Research Group'' in Spain - Team Coordinator: Prof. Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo, Spain)
    Apr 2024 - Present. Co-investigator of ``[NRF] General Joint Research'' - Response systems in natural languages: An empirical and experimental investigation [PI: Jong-Bok Kim].
    Oct 2023 - Sep 2024. Co-investigator of ``[NRF] Korea-Spain International Mobility Program'' - Implications from big data for the language of response in Korean, Spanish, and English [PI: Jong-Bok Kim].