Sung-Ock Shin Sohn

Sung-Ock S. Sohn (Professor at the Dept of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA) has been teaching Korean language and linguistics at UCLA since 1988. She received her masters and doctorate degrees in linguistics at the University of Hawaii. Her research area includes functional/cognitive linguistics, grammaticalization, discourse and grammar, language acquisition, and bilingual education among others. She is the author/co-author of six books including Integrated Korean (University of Hawaii Press) and Tense and Aspect in Korean. She has also published more than forty articles on Korean language and linguistics. Her recent publications include “True beginners, False beginners, and Fake beginners: Placement challenges for Korean Heritage Speakers” (2007. co-authored with S.-G.. Shin, Foreign Language Annals), and “Frequency effects in grammaticalization: from relative clause to clause connective in Korean” (2006) in Japanese/Korean Linguistics.

As coordinator of the Korean language program at UCLA, she overviews one of the largest Korean programs in N. America, and supervises undergraduate as well as graduate students majoring in Korean. She received UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997.

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Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures
Royce Hall 290
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
U.S.A.

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