† Denotes corresponding author. ‡ Denotes equal contribution. WoS = Web of Science. KCI = Korea Citation Index.

Selected Publications

  • In press. Noh, Hyeseon‡ and Rok Sim‡†. “Constructing the ‘Other’: Online racialized hate speech and perceived threats in South Korea.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. [WoS: SSCI] [PDF]

  • In press. Sim, Rok‡ and Jungsoo Kim‡†. “A collostructional approach to the concealed passive construction in English.” English Language and Linguistics. [WoS: A\&HCI, SSCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Sim, Rok. “Framing K-Beauty in U.S. and U.K. news: A corpus-based study.” The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 33(4), 129–161. [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Kim, Jungsoo‡ and Rok Sim‡†. “Persuasive Americans vs. brutal Brits? A collostructional study of the transitive out of V-ing construction.” Linguistic Research, 42(3), 739–769. [WoS: ESCI] [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Sim, Rok‡ and Drew Crosby‡†. “Phonology meets AI: Can ChatGPT detect and differentiate cuteness in Korean aegyo?” The Journal of Linguistic Science, 114, 389–419. [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2024. Kim, Jungsoo‡ and Rok Sim‡†. “A collostructional and constructional approach to the transitive out of V-ing construction.” English Studies, 105(2), 263–289. [WoS: A\&HCI] [PDF]

  • 2024. Blanchette, Frances, Stanley Dubinsky, Amanda Harman, and Rok Sim. “This construction needs understood: An experimental study of the Alternative Embedded Passive (AEP).” American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, 1–29. [WoS: A\&HCI, SSCI] [PDF]

  • 2023. Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim, and Rok Sim. “Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing.” Journal of Linguistics, 59(2), 327–360. [WoS: A\&HCI, SSCI] [PDF]

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • In press. Noh, Hyeseon‡ and Rok Sim‡†. “Constructing the ‘Other’: Online racialized hate speech and perceived threats in South Korea.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. [WoS: SSCI] [PDF]

  • In press. Sim, Rok‡ and Jungsoo Kim‡†. “A collostructional approach to the concealed passive construction in English.” English Language and Linguistics. [WoS: A\&HCI, SSCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Sim, Rok and Jungsoo Kim. “Dialectal and constructional variation in the out of V-ing construction: A corpus-based analysis.” Language and Information, 29(3). [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Sim, Rok. “Framing K-Beauty in U.S. and U.K. news: A corpus-based study.” The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 33(4), 129–161. [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Kim, Jungsoo‡ and Rok Sim‡†. “Persuasive Americans vs. brutal Brits? A collostructional study of the transitive out of V-ing construction.” Linguistic Research, 42(3), 739–769. [WoS: ESCI] [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Crosby, Drew‡ and Rok Sim‡†. “-Nuntey for not-at-issue content: A preliminary survey of procedural meaning in Korean.” The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 33(3), 97–128. [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2025. Sim, Rok‡ and Drew Crosby‡†. “Phonology meets AI: Can ChatGPT detect and differentiate cuteness in Korean aegyo?” The Journal of Linguistic Science, 114, 389–419. [KCI] [PDF]

  • 2024. Blanchette, Frances, Stanley Dubinsky, Amanda Harman, and Rok Sim. “This construction needs understood: An experimental study of the Alternative Embedded Passive (AEP).” American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, 1–29. [WoS: A\&HCI, SSCI] [PDF]

  • 2024. Kim, Jungsoo‡ and Rok Sim‡†. “A collostructional and constructional approach to the transitive out of V-ing construction.” English Studies, 105(2), 263–289. [WoS: A\&HCI] [PDF]

  • 2023. Sim, Rok‡, Drew Crosby‡†, and D. Eric Holt. “A vestige-theory variationist approach to the variable assimilation pattern in Korean nasal-liquid sequences.” Korean Journal of Linguistics, 48(4), 855–889. [KCI (Excellent Accredited Journal)] [PDF]

  • 2023. Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim, and Rok Sim. “Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing.” Journal of Linguistics, 59(2), 327–360. [WoS: A\&HCI, SSCI] [PDF]

  • 2019. Kim, Jungsoo, Mija Kim, and Rok Sim. “Iconicity and properties of Korean -ceney ‘before’ and -hwuey-nase ‘after’ temporal clauses: A corpus-based perspective.” Korean Journal of Linguistics, 45(3), 477–513. [KCI (Excellent Accredited Journal)]

  • 2018. Kim, Jong-Bok and Rok Sim. “Horn-amalgam constructions: A construction-based analysis.” Studies in Generative Grammar, 28(4), 677–698. [KCI]

  • 2015. Sim, Rok‡ and Jong-Bok Kim‡†. “The transitive out of V-ing construction in English: A corpus-based study (in Korean).” The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 23(4), 189–210. [KCI]

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • 2024. Sim, Rok‡† and Stanley Dubinsky‡. “Two classes of ‘anyone’: A contrastive analysis of amwu and nwukwu in Korean.” In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 47), 147–155.

  • 2021. Sim, Rok‡† and Stanley Dubinsky‡. “Concealed passives and the syntax and semantics of need/philyo in English and Korean.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 8(1), 1–8.

  • 2019. Kim, Jong-Bok, Jungsoo Kim, and Rok Sim. “Conceptual metaphorical extensions of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ in English and Korean: A usage-based approach.” In Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation.

  • 2018. Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim, Rok Sim, and Okgi Kim. “Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 27(3), 1–14.