.png)
Hosted by
Invited Speakers: Plenary
Professor Jong-Bok Kim
Kyung Hee University
South Korea
Jong-Bok Kim is Professor of the Department of English Linguistics and a Literature and Director of the Institute for the Study of Language and Information at Kyung Hee University, Seoul.
After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1996, he has been working on syntax, semantics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics for English and Korean. He has published numerous papers in various top-notch international journals in the field as well as several influential books on English and Korean linguistics. His three books have been nominated as the Excellent Book of the year by the National Academy of Sciences in Korea. He is also co-author of the textbook Syntactic Constructions in English (2020, Cambridge University Press), which is now worldwide used as an undergraduate and graduate textbook. His recent book The Syntactic Structure of Korean: A Construction Grammar Perspective (2016, Cambridge University Press), is also highly welcomed by those working in linguistics as well as in the Korean language.
He is the winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2019, given to internationally renowned scientists and scholars by the Alexandar von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He was also Fulbright Research Fellow (2004-2005), Distinguished Research Fellow of the National Research Foundation of Korea (2011-2016), and Kyung Hee University Fellow (2011-2013, 2017-2019). He also received Distinguished Research Award from the Ministry of Education, Korea (2017).
Usage-based Construction Grammar:
Implications for Language Learning and Teaching
Construction Grammar (CxG), taking our linguistic knowledge to be form-function pairings, is usage-oriented in accepting the view that linguistic structure is formed by the repetition of certain linguistic patterns in language use. This usage-based view thus emphasizes the tight associations among language forms, meanings, and functions, and also holds that actual language uses contribute to the understanding of the nature of grammatical organization as well as language acquisition. This usage and construction-based language model implies that language acquisition relies on language experiences rather than any particular language faculty or innate knowledge. In this talk, I first review such key foundational ideas of usage-based CxG and discuss its implications for language learning and teaching, referring to several key grammatical constructions in English including cleft, extraposition, and inversion.