CURRICULUM VITAE

Min-Joo Kim

Department of English E-mail: min-joo.kim@ttu.edu

Texas Tech University Webpage: http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/minjkim/
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091 Phone: (806) 742-2500 ext. 262 (work)
USA Fax: (806) 742-0989 (shared)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

2005-present Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Department of English, Texas Tech University
2004-2005 Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University

EDUCATION AND DEGREES EARNED

1999-2004 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, PhD in linguistics
Dissertation Title: Event Structure and the Internally-Headed Relative Clause
Construction in Korean and Japanese
Committee: Kyle Johnson (Chair), Angelika Kratzer, Christopher Potts, Peggy Speas,
Ellen Woolford, Chisato Kitagawa (external member).
2002 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.A. in Linguistics
2001 UC-Santa Barbara, Summer Institute of Linguistic Society of America
1997-1999 University of Arizona, M.A. in English as a Second Language
1994-1997 Chonnam National University, Completion of M.A. requirements in English literature
1989-1993 Chonnam National University, B.A. in English Education

COURSES TAUGHT

At Texas Tech:
Undergraduate:
• Linguistic Science (ENGL 3371, spring 2007, summer 2007)
• Modern English Syntax (ENGL 3373/7000, fall 2005, summer 2007)
• Languages of the World (ENGL 4373/7000, spring 2006, spring 2008)
• Semantics (ENGL 4373, fall 2006)
Graduate:
• Syntax (ENGL 5337, spring 2006, spring 2008)
• Semantics (ENGL 7000, fall 2006)
Invited lectures:
• Research Methods in Literature and Language (ENGL 5340; Dr. Ann Hawkins, fall 2005)
• Professional Development for Literature and Language majors (Dr. Michael Borshuk, fall 2006)

Elsewhere:
Undergraduate:
• Introduction to linguistic theory (LING 201, UMass-Amherst, fall 2001 & summer 2002)
• Introduction to Psycholinguistics (LING 411, UMass-Amherst, spring 2002 & 2003)
• People and their language (LING 101, UMass-Amherst, fall 2002, TA-ed for Prof. Peggy Speas)
• Meaning (LING 270, Northwestern University, spring 2005)

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Graduate:
• Introduction to syntax (LING 460-1, Northwestern, winter quarter 2005)
• Introduction to semantics (LING 470-1, Northwestern, winter 2005)
• Topics in linguistics (semantics seminar) (LING 300, Northwestern University, fall 2004)
• Typology (LING 341, Northwestern University, fall 2004)

RESEARCH AREAS
Formal syntax, Formal semantics, Syntax-semantics interface, Language acquisition, East Asian
linguistics

RECENT RESEARCH TOPICS

Event semantics, relative clauses, anaphora, Case, polarity sensitive items, conventional implicatures.

PUBLICATIONS
2008 Revisiting the Relevancy Condition on internally headed relatives in Korean. In Proceedings of
International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, University of Toronto Working Papers.
2007 Formal Linking in Internally Headed Relatives. Natural Language Semantics 15(4): 279-315.
2007 Domain Restriction in Freedom of Choice: A View from Korean Indet-Na Items. In Proceedings of
Sinn Und Bedeutung 11, 375-389. (with Stefan Kaufmann)
2007 Internally Headed Relatives Parallel Direct Perception Complements. In E. Hudson et al. eds.,
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13, Stanford, CA: CSLI.
2006 Acquisition of an Adjunct Island inside There-Sentences. Journal of Cognitive Science 6(1), 73-95.
2004 Internally Headed Relatives Instantiate Situation Subordination. In K. Moulton and M. Wolf eds.,
Proceedings of NELS 34, 333-344. Amherst, MA: GLSA publications.
2004 The Genitive of Negation in Russian: Blocking of Case-licensing by Negation. In Mary Andronis
et al. eds., Papers from the 38th Chicago Linguistic Society Meeting: Main Session, 345-360.
Chicago, IL: CLS publications.
2004 Three Types of Kes-Nominalization. In I.-H. Lee et al. eds., Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics
10, 479-492, Seoul, Korea: Hanshin Publishing Company.
2003 Children’s Sensitivity to Adjunct Islands inside There-Sentences. In B. Beachley et al. eds.,
Proceedings of the 27th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 425-436.
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2003 The Genitive of Negation in Russian: a Relativized Minimality Account. In W. Browne et al. eds.,
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics.
2002 The Absence of Adjectives and Noun Modification in Korean. In Proceedings of the 2002
International Conference on Korean Linguistics, Hankwuk Mwunhwasa: Seoul, Korea.
2002 Does Korean have Adjectives? In T. Ionin et al. eds., MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 43, 71-89.
2001 Proceedings of the 31st North Eastern Linguistic Society. Edited with Uri Strauss Published by
GLSA, UMass-Amherst.
1999 Implementing Group-work in the EFL Korean Secondary School Classroom Context: Focusing on
Scenarios and Dramas. 1999. Studies in English Education 3(2), 173-186.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION IN PROGRESS

2008 The Relevance of Grammar and Pragmatics to the Relevancy Condition. (Under revision for
resubmission)
2008 E-type Anaphora and three types of kes construction in Korean. (Under revision for resubmission)
2007 The Absence of the Adjective Category in Korean. (Under revision for resubmission)

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MANUSCRIPTS
2002 The internally-headed relative clause construction and the direct perception construction in Korean
and Japanese: How are They Similar and Why? UMass.
2002 Entity-central vs. event-central existentials in English. UMass.
2001 Reanalyzing a passive construction in Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua). UC-Santa Barbara, LSA
Summer Institute.
2001 What seems likely isn’t: rethinking the NP-raising in seem-construction. UC-Santa Barbara, LSA
Summer Institute.
2001 The accusative adverbials in Korean and delimiting phrase. Generals paper. UMass.
2000 The syntax and semantics of the Korean external possession Construction. UMass.
1999 Anaphora in Korean: focusing on caki. University of Arizona.
1999 The relative clause construction in Korean: a cross-linguistic approach. U of Arizona.

NEW PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

2008 Utterance-final Even and conventional implicature (In preparation with Nathan Jahnke)
2008 Telicity-dependent aspectual system and progressive aspect in Japanese and Korean (in preparation
with Chisato Kitagawa)
2008 Domain restriction in freedom of choice: Korean ‘Indet+ -na.’ (In preparation with Stefan
Kaufmann at Northwestern University).

INVITED TALKS
2006 Domain Restriction in Freedom of Choice: A View from Korean NWUKWU-NA Phrases.
Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University (March 23)
2006 Eventuality Type and the Interpretation of Internally Headed Relatives. Korean Linguistics Circle.
Kyoto University (March 13)
2006 Domain Restriction in Freedom of Choice: A View from Korean INDET-NA Items. Workshop on
Current Issues in Formal Semantics. Kyoto University (March 12)
2005 Decomposing Free Choice Items in Korean. Research Seminar on Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning, Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University (November 4)
2005 What Do Korean Internally-Headed Relatives Tell us about Event Structure? Linguistics
Colloquium, University of Chicago. (May 26)
2005 Formal Linking and Internally-Headed Relatives in Korean and Japanese. Workshop on Head-Final
Languages, Syracuse University (April 9).
2005 Internally-Headed Relatives as a Window into Event Structure. Linguistics Colloquium,
Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University (February 11).
2005 The Secretive but Rich Life of Relative Clauses. Linguistics Colloquium, Department of English,
Texas Tech University. (January 24)
2004 Internally-Headed Relatives in Korean: the View from Syntax-Semantics Interface. Syntax Supper,
Department of Linguistics, City University of New York (May 11).
2004 Internally-Headed Relatives in Korean: from Syntax to Semantics. Linguistics Colloquium,
Syracuse University (February 23).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2008 Conventional Implicature and Utterance-Final EVEN. LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Jan. 3-6
(with Nathan Jahnke).
2007 Utterance Final EVEN and Conventional Implicature. 36th Meeting of LASSO, Denver, CO, Sept.
21-23 (with Nathan Jahnke).
2006 Revisiting the Relevancy Condition on the Internally Headed Relatives in Korean. University of

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 Toronto. November 9-12.
2006 Domain Restriction in Freedom of Choice: Korean Indet+NA. Sinn Und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona,
September 21-23. (With Stefan Kaufmann at Northwestern)
2006 The Role of Hearer’s Beliefs in the Interpretation of Logical Connectives. Workshop on Games
and Decisions in Pragmatics. Berlin. January 6-7. (With James German, Eyal Sagi, Stefan
Kaufmann and Brady Clark at Northwestern)
2005 Rethinking the Relevancy Condition on Internally Headed Relatives. The 34th Meeting of
the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 7-9.
2004 Internally-Headed Relatives Connect Two Sets of Eventualities. The 2004 Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Boston, MA, January 8-11.
2003 Internally-Headed Relatives Instantiate Situation Subordination. The 34th meeting of the NELS,
SUNY-Stony Brook, NY, November 9th.
2003 Internally Headed Relatives and Direct Perception Complements. The 13th Japanese/Korean
Linguistics Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, August 1-3.
2003 Three Types of Kes-Nominalization. The 10th Harvard (Biennnial) International Symposium on
Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 11-13.
2002 Children’s Sensitivity to Adjunct Islands inside There-Sentences. The 27th BU Conference on
Language Development, Boston University, Boston, MA, November.
2002 The Absence of Adjectives and Noun Modification in Korean. The 2002 International Conference
on Korean Linguistics, Seoul National University, August 3-5.
2002 African American English Speaking Children's Concept of BE-ing. With Mike J. Terry, Jill G. de
Villiers, and M. Fond. Paper in symposium on the special features of African-American English,
presented at Madison IASCL/SCRLD, July.
2002 The Genitive of Negation in Russian: a Relativized Minimality Account. The 11th Formal
Approach to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) Workshop, UMass Amherst, May.
2002 The Genitive of Negation in Russian: Blocking of Case-licensing by Negation. The 38th Chicago
Linguistic Society (CLS) meeting, University of Chicago, April.
2001 The Accusative Adverbials in Korean and Delimiting Phrase. The 32nd Meeting of NELS, NYU,
October.
2001 Does Korean have Adjectives? The Harvard/MIT Student Conference, Harvard University,
September.
1996 How to Integrate the Four Skills Using Textbooks. The Annual Meeting of the Korean English
Education Society, Kwangju, Korea, July.

GRANT-RELATED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Fall, 2007 A cross-linguistic investigation of event subordination without an overt connective.
Research Enhancement Fund for Arts and Humanities. Texas Tech University.
(Denied.)
Summer, 2005 Faculty Associate for a National Science Foundation grant proposal submitted for
consideration of support during 2006 and 2007. (PI: Stefan Kaufmann):
Northwestern University
Spring, Summer 2001 Research Assistant for the NSF project “Integration of Lexical and Compositional
Semantics: Genitives in English and Russian” (PI: Barbara Partee; joint researcher,
Vladimir Borschev): UMass
Fall 2000 RA for the National Institutes of Health grant for AAE Project (PI: Harry Seymour;
joint researchers: Jill de Villiers and Thomas Roeper): UMass, Experiment design
on done and the BE V-ing construction in AAE (with Jules Michael Terry)

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Spring 2004 Consultant for developing language tests for Korean teachers in the state of California,
National Evaluation Systems, Hadley, MA.
2003 Indexer for Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers by Barbara H.
Partee. Series Title: Explorations in Semantics. Susan Rothstein ed., Blackwell
Publishers (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle et al.)
2002 Indexer for Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. 2002. Paul Portner and Barbara
H. Partee eds., Blackwell Publishers (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle et al.).
Fall 2002 Course website and audio-visual material developer for Introduction to Psycholinguistics
(with Makoto Kadowaki), UMass.
1998-1999 Korean-English bilingual consultant for the Multimedia Language Courseware
Development Project, funded by National Security Education Program,
Critical Languages Program, U of Arizona.
1997-1999.1 Rater of SPEAK test (equivalent to the TSE administered by ETS),
Center for English as a Second Language, U of Arizona.
1995-1997 Text designer for CD-ROM titles for the Korean secondary school English class setting,
Project funded by the Ministry of Education, South Korea.

SERVICE
Journal article or grant proposal review:
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Fall 2006, spring and fall 2007
The Linguistic Review, Spring 2006
The Korean Linguistics Vol. 13, Spring 2006
National Science Foundation, grant proposal, Fall 2005
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Fall 2004

Book editing:
Proceedings of the 31st NELS Meeting, published by GLSA at UMass-Amherst (with Uri Strauss), 2001

Conference, Workshop, or colloquium organizing & hosting:

• Workshop on abstract writing for grad students, organized with Dr. Dan Siddiqi (Spring 07)
• The 34th Linguistic Association of the Southwest conference, Texas Tech. October 7-9, 2005 (with
• Drs. Colleen Fitzgerald and Mary Jane Hurst)
• Colloquium series, UMass Linguistics, 2002-2003 (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle, and Taka Shinya)
• The 1998 Mini-conference of Arizona-TESOL, May 1999
• The Korea-TESOL Cholla-Chapter mini-conferences & Korea-TESOL annual conferences, 1995-
1999 (with Heejung Park, Jinwoo Kim, Joo-kyung Park, and Claudia Payne)

Conference session chairing:

Session name: Quantification, definiteness, and presupposition, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America, Sunday, January 6 2008, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Committee
Film Selection committee, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University, fall 07 to spring 08
Portfolio committee (chair): Nathan Jahnke, Kristen Jones, Jared Hoover, Spring 08.

Administration:
Manager of GLSA Publications, UMass, August 2003-July 2004
Graduate Student Senator, UMass, Fall 1999

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HONORS AND AWARDS
2002 & 2003 Graduate School Travel Grant, UMass-Amherst.
Spring 2002 Course Development Grant for Intro to Psycholinguistics, UMass, Linguistics Dept.
Summer 2001 Summer Institute fellowship, Linguistic Society of America
1999-2000 Graduate fellowship, UMass, Linguistics Dept.
1993-1997 Graduate university fellowship, Chonnam National University (Kwangju, Korea)
August 1993 Graduated as ranked first in College of Education, Chonnam National University
1989-1993 Undergraduate university fellowship, Chonnam National University

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Linguistic Society of America
Linguistic Society of Korea
Linguistic Association of the Southwest