Ho-min Sohn

Professor, Korean Language

Moore Hall 352
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822

Phone: (808) 956-2054
Fax: (808) 956-9515
E-mail: homin@hawaii.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background

Educational Background

BA: Linguistics, Seoul National University, 1956
MA: Linguistics, Seoul National University, 1965
PhD: Linguistics, University of Hawaii, 1969

Research Areas

Syntax
General linguistics
Sociolinguistics

 

Selected Bibliography

Scholarly Books

1999 (reprinted 2001). The Korean Language. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. i-xii + pp. 445.

1994. Korean: Descriptive Grammars. London: Routledge Publishers. i-xvi + pp. 584.

1986. Linguistic Expeditions. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company. i-xi + pp. 550.

1976. Woleaian-English Dictionary (co-author: Anthony Tawerilmang). University of Hawaii Press. i-xix + pp. 363.

1975. Woleaian Reference Grammar. University of Hawaii Press. i-xii + pp. 316.

1973. A Ulithian Grammar (co-author: Byron W. Bender). Canberra: Australian National University Press. i-xv + pp. 398.

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Textbooks

2003. Selected Readings in Korean (co-author: H.S. Yang). pp. 360. Korean Language Education & Research Center . University of Hawaii Press.

2002. Integrated Korean, Advanced Intermediate 2 (co-author: Eun-Joo Lee) pp. 280. Korean Language Education & Research Center. University of Hawaii Press.

2002. Integrated Korean, Advanced Intermediate 1 (co-author: Eun-Joo Lee) pp. 260. Korean Language Education & Research Center. University of Hawaii Press.

2001. Integrated Korean, Intermediate 2 (co-authors: Y. Cho, C. Schulz, H. Lee, S. Sohn ). pp. 315. Korean Language Education & Research Center. University of Hawaii Press.

2001. Integrated Korean, Intermediate 1 (co-authors: Y. Cho, C. Schulz, H. Lee, S. Sohn ). pp. 320. Korean Language Education & Research Center. University of Hawaii Press.

2000. Integrated Korean, Beginning 2 (co-authors: Y. Cho, C. Schulz, H. Lee, S. Sohn ). Korean Language Education & Research Center. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 336.

2000. Integrated Korean, Beginning 1 (co-authors: Y. Cho, C. Schulz, H. Lee, S. Sohn ). Korean Language Education & Research Center. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 322.

1992. Korean Proficiency Guidelines. pp. 75 (plus videocassette & supplementary materials) (co-authors: D. Hiple, D.J. Lee, S. Yuen, C. Shultz, H. Yang). Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center , University of Hawaii.

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Edited Books

Forthcoming. Korea : Its Tradition, Culture and Society: An Introduction to Korean Studies (Co-editor: Yong-ho Choe). Submitted to the University of Hawaii Press.

2004. Korean Language in Culture and Society. Korean Language Education & Research Center . In press. University of Hawaii Press.

1997. Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 6 (co-editor: John Haig). Stanford: CSLI Press. i-ix + pp. 727.

1995. Korean Language in America, Volume 1. Honolulu: American Association of Teachers of Korean. i-viii + pp. 320.

1994. Korean Linguistics Vol.8. International Circle of Korean Linguistics. pp. 222.

1994. A New Frontier in Korean as a Foreign Language (co-editor: D.J. Lee). Honolulu: Korean Language Education & Research Center . i-xxvi + pp. 325.

1992. Korean Linguistics Vol.7. International Circle of Korean Linguistics. pp. 132.

1978. Korean Linguistics Vol.1. International Circle of Korean Linguistics. pp. 192.

1975. The Korean Language: Its Structure and Social Projection. Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies of the University of Hawaii. i-vii + pp. 126.

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Articles

Forthcoming. “Features of the Korean Language.” In H.M. Sohn & Y.H. Choe (eds.): Korea: Its Tradition, Culture and Society. Submitted to the University of Hawaii Press.

2004. “Korean in Contact with Chinese.” In H.M. Sohn (ed.): Korean Language in Culture and Society. In press. University of Hawaii Press.

2003. “Language, Forms, Prosody, and Themes” (with Peter Lee). In Peter Lee (ed.): A History of Korean Literature, pp. 15?51. Cambridge , England : Cambridge University Press.

2003. “The Adjective Class in Korean.” In R.M.W. Dixon and A.W. Aikhenvald (eds.), Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology, pp. 223-241. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

2003. “Korean Language Textbook Development and Teacher Training for Learners of Korean as a Foreign Language” (in Korean). In Educational Foundation for Koreans Abroad (ed.), Identity Issues and Educational Directions for Overseas Korean (Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Koreans Abroad, held in Seoul, August 2003), pp. 47-58.

2003. “Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions – II” (with B.W. Bender, W.H. Goodenough, F.H. Jackson, J.C. Marck, K.L. Rehg, S. Trussel, J.W. Wang). Oceanic Linguistics 42.2: 271 – 358. University of Hawaii Press.

2003. “Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions – I” (with B.W. Bender, W.H. Goodenough, F.H. Jackson, J.C. Marck, K.L. Rehg, S. Trussel, J.W. Wang). Oceanic Linguistics 42.1: 1 – 110. University of Hawaii Press.

2002. “History and Prospect of Korean Language Education in the United States ” (in Korean). Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language 25/26: 79-136. Seoul: Yonsei University Press.

2002. “Teaching Methodologies of Korean as a Foreign Language in the Future.” Proceedings of the 12 th International Conference on Korean Language Education, pp. 21-38.

2001. “Teaching Politeness Routines in Korean.” The Korean Language in America Vol. 6: 625-635.

2001. “Linguistic Politeness in Intercultural Communication.” Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, pp. 51-70.

2001. “Evolution of Interactive Sentence Enders in Korean.” In Y.S. Pak & J.H. Yeon (eds.), History, Language and Culture in Korea, pp. 282-294. London: Eastern Art Publishing.

2000. “Materials Development for Korean as a Foreign Language: Current Status and Proposed Directions” (in Korean). Directions and Tasks for 21st Century Korean Language Education. pp. 25-38. Seoul: International Association for Korean Language Education.

2000. “Curricular Goals and Content Standards for K-16 Korean Language Learning.” Korean Language in America 5: 3-16.

2000. “Issues in Korean Language Education in the United States ” (in Korean). D.J. Lee, et al. (eds.). Studies on Korean in Community Schools. Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center of the University of Hawaii , Technical Report No. 22: 1-23.

1999. “Whither Teaching of Korean in Australasia in the Next Decade: In Comparison with American Experience.” In D.S. Park & C.S. Suh (eds.), Linking Korea and Australasia for the New Century. Sydney : University of New South Wales.

1999. “Functional Transfer in Sentence-final Positions in Korean and Japanese.” Language Information 3: 145-185. Seoul: Korea University Press.

1999. “Methods of Korean Language Education in the United States ” (in Korean). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Korean As a Foreign Language, pp. 87-115. Seoul National University Korean Language Education Research Institute.

1998. “Strategies for Overseas Korean Language Education for the 21st Century.” Literacy and Hangul, pp. 58-69. Seoul : Ministry of Culture & Sports and International Association for Korean language Education.

1998. “Evolution of Addressee Honorifics in Korean.” In S.O. Lee and D.S. Park (eds.), Perspectives on Korea, pp. 480-490. Sydney : Wild Peony, Ltd.

1998. “Principles of Performance-based Foreign Language Teaching.” Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics 2: 52-80.

1997. “Orthographic Divergence in South and North Korea : Toward a Unified Spelling System.” In Y.K. Kim-Renaud (ed.), The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure, pp. 193-218. University of Hawaii Press.

1997. “Korean Linguistics and Korean Language Education in America .” (in Korean) Education Hangeul 10: 55-90. Seoul: Korean Language Society.

1997. “Globalization of Korean Studies.” (in Korean; with C. H. Lee ). Directions and Tasks of Korean Studies for the 21st Century, pp. 337-374. Seoul: Chimmundang.

1996 “Reanalysis in Korean Complex Predicate Constructions: Causative Derivation.” Japanese/Korean Linguistics 5: 37-64. Stanford: CSLI Press.

1995. “Performance-based Principles and Proficiency-oriented Criteria for Korean Language Textbook Development.” Korean Language Education 6: 67-98.

1994. “Issues in KFL Textbook Development.” In H.M. Sohn & D.J. Lee (eds.), A New Frontier in Korean as a Foreign Language, pp. 197-205. Honolulu : Korean Language Education & Research Center.

1994. “Derivation of the Korean Past Tense and Modal Suffixes.” Festschrift for Professor S.J. Hong, pp. 321-330. Chunchon: Kangwon University Press.

1993. “Korean Proficiency Guidelines: Needs, Procedures, Principles, and Implications.” Korean Language Education 4: 191-230.

1992. “Honorific Agreement in Korean.” In S. Cho and H. Lee (eds.), Linguistics and Cognition, pp. 604-633. Seoul: Korean Culture Publishers.

1992. “Essentials of Korean Language and Culture for International Business and Tourism.” Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Symposium on Pacific Asian Business, pp. 196-199. Honolulu: Pacific Asian Management Institute.

1991. “Grammaticalization and Semantic Shifts.” In E.J. Baek (ed.), Papers from the 7th International Conference on Korean Linguistics, pp. 589-603. Seoul: Hanshin.

1991. “Educational Problems of Korean-Americans in Hawaii ” (in Korean). In Academy of Korean Studies (ed.), Korean Culture from the Global Perspective, pp. 919-932. Seoul: Academy of Korean Studies Press.

1991. “A Brief History of Generative-Transformational Grammar” (in Korean). In B.H. Kim (ed.), A History of Linguistics, pp. 293?362. Seoul National University Press.

1991. “Language Policies and Linguistic Divergence in the Two Koreas.” Sino-Platonic Papers 27: 95-102. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

1991. “Patterned Weaknesses in OPI Interviewees in Korean.” Korean Language Education 3: 197-220.

1991. “Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Appropriateness in Proficiency-Oriented Korean Language Instruction.” Bilingual Education for Overseas Koreans 8: 461-490.

1991. “Status, Prospects, and Problems in Korean Language Education in the U. S.” (in Korean). New Korean Language Life 2: 89-102. Seoul: National Academy of the Korean Language.

1990. “Korean Language Education in the United States.” Bilingual Education for Overseas Koreans 6: 19-91.

1989. “Politeness Strategies in Korean.” In E.J. Baek (ed.), Papers from the Sixth International Conference on Korean Linguistics, pp. 655-660. Seoul: Hanshin.

1988. “Strategies of Indirection in Language.” In Linguistic Society of Korea (ed.), Linguistics in the Morning Calm II, pp. 167-196.

1986. “Patterns of American Students’ Composition Errors in Korean.” In N.K. Kim (ed.), Korean Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching, pp. 150-202. Los Angeles: Univ. of Southern California.

1986. “Cross-Cultural Patterns of Honorifics and Sociolinguistic Sensitivity to Honorific Variables: Evidence from English, Japanese, and Korean” (with K. Hijirida). Papers in Linguistics 19.3: 230?270. Canada.

1985. “Strategies of Indirection in Korean.” In Festschrift for Professor Hyunggi Kim in Honor of his Seventieth Birthday, pp. 679-697. Taejon, Korea: Chungnam University Press.

1984. “Proto Oceanic Reflexes in Woleaian” (co-author: A. Tawerilmang). In B.W. Bender (ed.), Studies in Micronesian Linguistics, pp. 171-199. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

1984. “Surface and Deep Contrasts in Ulithian” (co-author: B.W. Bender). In B.W. Bender (ed.), Studies in Micronesian Linguistics, pp. 201-213. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

1984. “An Orthographic Design for Woleaian.” In B.W. Bender (ed.), Studies in Micronesian Linguistics, pp. 215-236. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

1983. “Power and Solidarity in the Korean Language.” Korean Linguistics 3: 97?122.

1983. “Commonality and Relativity in Address-Reference Term Usages: A Comparison of English, Japanese, and Korean” (with K. Hijirida). Language Research 19.2: 139?168. Seoul National University Press.

1983. “Intercultural Communication in Cognitive Values: Americans and Koreans.” Language and Linguistics 9: 93-136. Seoul: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

1982. “Korean Romanization: A Cross-Phonemic Approach.” Korea Journal 22.8: 49?60. Seoul: UNESCO Korean Commission.

1981. “Multiple Topic Constructions in Korean.” Hangeul 173/174: 669-686. Seoul: Korean Language Society.

1980. “The State of the Art in the Historical-Comparative Studies of Japanese and Korean.” Korean Studies 4: 29 ?50. University of Hawaii Press.

1980. “Report of the Workshop Conference on Korean Romanization” (co-authors: R. Austerlitz, C.W. Kim, S.E. Martin, S.R. Ramsey, S.C. Song, & E. Wagner). Korean Studies 5: 111-125. University of Hawaii Press.

1980. “Metathesis in Kwara’ae.” Lingua 52: 219-237. Amsterdam.

1980. “Theme-Prominence in Korean.” Korean Linguistics 2: 1-19.

1980. “Syntactic and Semantic Interference for Korean Adult English Learners.” In J. Koo and T.N. St. Clair (eds.), Bilingual Education for Asian-Americans: Problems and Strategies, pp. 111-129. Hiroshima, Japan: Bunka Hyoron Publishing Co.

1979. “Honorific Patterns in Japanese and Korean.” In Festschrift for Dr. Tae-shik Synn, pp. 57-106. Taegu, Korea: Keimyung University Press.

1978. “Contractions as a Mechanism of Polysemic Breeding: A Device for Speaker Involvement in Korean.” In C.W. Kim (ed.), Papers in Korean Linguistics, pp. 197-205. Columbia: Hornbeam.

1978. “Long Forms and Short Forms in Korean” (in Korean). Language Research 14.2: 141-151. Seoul National University Press.

1978. “Honorification and Performatives in Japanese and Korean.” In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, pp. 52-57. Corvallis: The Oregon State University Press.

1977. “Goal and Source in Korean Locatives with Reference to Japanese.” Eoneohak (Linguistics) 2: 73?98. Seoul National University Press.

1977. “Consonant Shifts and Subgrouping in the Sonsorol-Ulithi-Woleai Chain” (with L. Langal, A. Tawerilmang, & C. Yangilmau). Language Sciences 44: 19-24. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1976. “Semantics of Compound Verbs in Korean.” The Journal of Linguistic Society of Korea 1.1: 142?150.

1975. “Tense in Korean.” In H.M. Sohn (ed.), The Korean Language: Its Structure and Social Projection, pp. 47-61. University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies monograph series 6.

1975. “Retrospection in Korean.” Language Research 11.1: 87-103. Seoul National University Press.

1974. “Case Incorporation in English Verbs with Reference to Korean Structure.” The English Language and Literature 51/52: 431-456. Korean Society of English Language and Literature.

1974. “Modals and Speaker-Hearer Perspectives in Korean.” Papers in Linguistics 7.3/4: 493-520. Canada.

1973. “A Re-examination of `Auxiliary’ Verb Constructions in Korean.” Working Papers in Linguistics (University of Hawaii), 5.3: 63-88.

1973. “Cohesion in Korean Auxiliary Verb Constructions.” Language Research 9.2: 239-251. Seoul National University Press.

1973. “Relative Clause Formation in Micronesian Languages.” Oceanic Linguistics 12.1/2: 353-392. University of Hawaii Press.

1970/71. “A Remark on /c, ch, c’/ and Some Neutralization Phenomena in Korean.” Dongguk Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences 8/9: 71?88. Seoul: Dongguk University Press.

1969. “Methods of Linguistic Anthropology” (in Korean). Language Research 5.2: 61-70. Seoul National University Press.

1969. “On Saussure and Hjelmslev, Their Structural Viewpoints.” Language Research 5.1: 49-71. Seoul National University Press.

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Book Reviews

1992. “Review of M. Shibatani: vThe Languages of Japan (Cambridge University Press 1990).” The Modern Language Journal, 76.1: 110-111.

1990. “Review of Seok Choong Song: Explorations in Korean Syntax and Semantics (UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 1989).” Journal of Asian Studies, 49.1: 178-179.

1982. “Review of the Chapters on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore in H.K. Kim (ed.), Studies on Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 1980).” Korean Studies 5: 143-146. University of Hawaii Press.

1977. “Review of S. Elbert, M. Pukui, and E. Mookini: Place Names of Hawaii.” The Journal of Ethnic Studies (College of Ethnic Studies, Western Washington State College, Bellingham), 4.4: 120-122.

1975. “Review of Lewin, B. and T. Kim: Einfuhrung in die koreanische Sprache.” The Journal of Asian Studies, 34.3: 842-843.

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