Dr Kook-Hee Gil

School of English

Reader in Applied Linguistics, Graduate Director of English Language and Linguistics

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Dr Kook-Hee Gil
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Profile

My main research areas include syntax, semantics and second language acquisition.

After obtaining my BA in English Literature and Linguistics at Chungnam National º£½ÇÉçÇø (Korea) in 1993, I came to the UK and completed all my postgraduate degrees at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Edinburgh: MSc in Applied Linguistics and in Speech and Language Processing in 1994 and 1995 respectively, followed by a PhD in 2000, with a thesis entitled "A formal account to Long-Distance Anaphora: the case of Korean" supervised by Ronnie Cann.

In 2001-2004, I worked as a research fellow for a AHRC funded project "Strategies of Quantification" at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of York, before coming to Sheffield as a lecturer in Applied Linguistics in 2004.

Research interests

My research areas are in Syntax, Semantics and Second Language Acquisition. 

My most recent research concern L2 acquisition of (wh)-quantifiers (L2 Korean and L1 English/Japanese/Chinese), L2 acquisition of bare plurals and count/mass distinction, and classroom implications by Generative SLA research.  The latter kind of research has led to a number of special workshops at conferences such as AAAL (2011), GASLA (2013) and LAGB (2016).

In the past, I worked on syntactic and semantic phenomena including binding, scrambling, topic/focus. (floating) quantifiers, classifiers and wh-indeterminates, also in Second Language Acquisition regarding those linguistic phenomena.

Publications

Edited books

  • Gil K-H, Harlow S & Tsoulas G (Eds.) (2013) Strategies of Quantification. Oxford: Oxford: OUP. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Whong M, Gil K-H & Marsden H (Eds.) (2013) . Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Hammond T & Gil K-H (2023) . Journal of the European Second Language Association, 7(1), 75-92. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Marsden H & Whong M (2019) . Language Teaching Research, 23(2), 218-236. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil KH (2019) . Language, 18, 25-45. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Rastelli S (2018) . Instructed Second Language Acquisition, 2(2), 242-264. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marsden H, Whong M & Gil KH (2018) . Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40(1), 91-118. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Whong M, Gil K-H & Marsden H (2014) . Second Language Research, 30(4), 551-568. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Marsden H (2013) . Linguistic Approaches to Bilinguiaism, 3, 117-149-117-149. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Tsoulas G (2011) Elucidating the notion of syntax-pragmatics interface. Linguistic Approaches to Bilinguiaism, 1. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H, Harlow S & Tsoulas G (2007) Distributivity and Quantification in Korean. York Papers in Linguistics Series, 2, 21-44-21-44. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H (2004) Wh Quantification in Korean, Japanese and Malayalam: A Comparative View. York Papers in Lingustics Series, 2. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Liu Y & Gil K-H (2024) , Language Acquisition and Language Disorders (pp. 88-110). John Benjamins Publishing Company RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Marsden H & Park S (2022) Beyond L1-L2 Morphological Similarities: L2 Korean WH Lexical Ambiguity- In Jeon H-S, Sells P, You Z, Kita S & Yeon J (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics CSLI Publications RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Grillo N, Marsden H, Radkevich N, Sloggett S, Tsoulas G & Yeo N (2021) Theory and Acquisition of Experientials In Jeon H-S, Sells P, You Z, Kita S & Yeon J (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics (pp. 3-17). Standford º£½ÇÉçÇø: CSLI Publications. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Marsden H & Tsoulas G (2018) , Mind Matters in SLA (pp. 52-71). Channel View Publications RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Marsden H & Tsoulas G (2018) Poverty of Stimulus and Language Acquisition: from Ancient Philosophy to Neuroscience In Wright C, Piske T & Young-Scholten M (Ed.), Mind Matters (pp. 52-71). Multilingual Matters RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Whong M & Marsden H (2013) Introduction: Generative second language acquisition and language pedagogy In Whong M, Gil K-H & Marsden H (Ed.), Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom (pp. 1-13). Netherlands: Springer. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K & Tsoulas G (2013) , Strategies of Quantification (pp. 1-12). Oxford º£½ÇÉçÇø PressOxford RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Marsden H & Whong M (2013) , Educational Linguistics (pp. 139-159). Springer Netherlands RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Marsden H & Whong M (2013) L2 Acquisition of Quantifiers In Whong M, Gil K-H & Marsden H (Ed.), Universal grammar and second language acquisition (pp. 139-160-139-160). Springer Netherlands RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H (2012) Scrambling Chains and Long-distance Anaphors In Frellisvig B, Kiaer J & Wrona J (Ed.), Studies in Japanese and Korean Linguistics Lincom Europa RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Marsden H & Whong M (2011) L2 acquisition of any: negative evidence, negative implicatures and negative L1 transfer In Granena G, Koeth J, Lee-Ellis S, Lukyanchenko A, Botana GP & Rhoades E (Ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 2010 Second Language Research Forum: Reconsidering SLA Research, Dimensions, and Directions (pp. 29-39). Somerville MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Tsoulas G (2009) , Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization (pp. 133-160). Oxford º£½ÇÉçÇø PressOxford RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Tsoulas G (2009) Quantification, The Nominal Mapping Parameter, and DP Structure in Korean and Japanese In Ginnakidou & Rathert (Ed.), Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization OUP: USA RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H & Tsoulas G (2008) Quantification, the Nominal Mapping Parameter, and DP Structure in Korean and Japanese In Giannakidou & Rathert (Ed.), Quanfication, Definiteness, and Nominalization OUP: Oxford RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H & Tsoulas G (2004) Peripheral Effects without Peripheral Syntax: The left periphery in Korean In David Adger CDC & Tsoulas G (Ed.), Syntactic Edges and Their Effects Kluwer Academic Publishers: Amsterdam RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Harlow S & Tsoulas G (2004) Connectives, Indeterminates, and Quantificational Variability In Bonami O & Hofherr PC (Ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5 CNRS, Paris-7 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kook-Hee Gill SH & Tsoulas G (2003) Quantificational Variability and Crosslingusitic Semantics In Yoon H (Ed.), Generative Grammar in a Broader Perspective Hankook PUblishing Company: Seoul RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kook-Hee Gill SH & Tsoulas G (2003) Conjunction, Disjunction and Quantificational Forces, Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics X Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard º£½ÇÉçÇø RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Hammond T () Fixed expressions as bootstrapping mechanisms into L2 phrase structure: Examining trends in a longitudinal learner corpus In Dahl A & Listhaug KF (Ed.), Language Acquisition and Language Disorders RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K, Marsden H & Tsoulas G () Mind Matters In Wright C, Piske & Young-Scholten (Ed.), Mind Matters Multi Lingual Matters RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Tsoulas G () Features, concord and quantification In Gil K, Harlow S & Tsoulas G (Ed.), Strategies of Quantification Oxford: Oxford º£½ÇÉçÇø Press RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Gil K-H & Hammond T (2023) Interrogative Chunks, Derivational Complexity and L1 Transfer at the Initial State of L2 French. Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston º£½ÇÉçÇø Conference on Language Development. Sommervile, MA RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Park S (2016) POS and the Role of Input: The case of Generics in L2 English. Proceedings of the 13h Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA2015) (pp 203-210). Somerville, MA, 4 March 2015 - 6 March 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Marsden H (2010) L2 acquisition of polarity items: the case of Korean-English interlanguage. Selected papers from the second European Conference on Korean Linguistics (pp 60-74) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H & Marsden H (2010) Semantics before Syntax: L2 knowledge of anyone by Korean speaking learners. Proceedings of the Mind-Context Divide Workshop (pp 40-51-40-51) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kook-Hee Gill SH & Tsoulas G (2004) Quantificational Variability and Crosslinguistic Semantics. Proceedings of the Seoul GLOW RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H, Harlow S & Tsoulas G (2004) Connectives, Indeterminates, and Quantificational Variability. Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5 (pp 75-88-75-88) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Harlow S & Tsoulas G (2003) Disjunction, Quantification and Free Choice. WeCoL 14 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gil K-H, Harlow S & Tsoulas G (2003) Conjunction, Disjunction and Quantificational Forces. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics X RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kook-Hee Gill SH & Tsoulas G (2002) The Paradox of wh-na. Explorations in Korean Languages and Linguistics (pp 73-90-73-90) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H & Tsoulas G (2002) Remarks of Topic and Focus and the Syntax-Phonology Interface in Korean. Explorations in Korean Language and Linguistics (pp 91-106-91-106) RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2002) On the Form and Meaning of Certain Korean Quantifiers RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H (2001) Floating Quantifiers in Korean. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics IX (pp 328-337-328-337) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H (1999) Rethinking Topicalisation and Caki-Binding. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VIII (pp 328-337-328-337) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H (1999) Long-distance Anaphora Conspiracy: The case of Korean. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloqium RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kook-Hee Gill AS & Tsoulas G (1998) Word Order in Korean, Antisymmetry and Mirro Theory. The 11th International Conference on Korean Linguistics RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H (1998) Topic and Binding. Proceedings of Edinburgh Postgraduate Conference of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gill K-H (1997) Long-Distance Anaphora in Korean: An HPSG account. Proceedings of Edinburgh Postgraduate Conference of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

I welcome PhD applications whose topics lie in L2 acquisition of syntax and semantics as well as in syntactic and semantic phenomenon aforementioned in my research profile. I have supervised on topics including L2 acquisition of article semantics and generics, mass-count distinction and plurality, prosody transfer hypothesis and null arguments.

Teaching activities

In the undergraduate programme, I teach Linguistic Theory, Semantics and Second Language Acquisition.  For the postgraduate programme, I contribute to MA in Applied Linguistics and teach 'Introduction to Language and Linguistics', 'Introduction to Second Language Acquisition', 'Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition' and 'Research Methods'.