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10 ProudHUFSan
ProudHUFSan? KimKwang-sup
LINGUISTICS, WHAT I LOVE
BySukGee-hyun
interacted with many different
people.” One of them is Norbert
Reporterof CampusSection
Hornstein, who is often called the
anguage is a privilege that
godfather of linguistics. Kim says
the humans have and at the
it was a big help not only to know
same time, it is a distinct
Professor Hornstein personally as
social phenomenon. A society
wellasthroughhispublishedwork.
withoutalanguagemaywellbeakin
According to Kim, the theories of
toatreewithoutitsroot.Peopleoften
Noam Chomsky which he studied in
forgethowcloselylanguageisrelated
hisjunioryearatHUFSaffectedhim
with our lives but the professor
so profoundly that they inspired him
interviewed here says that studying
to write for Linguistic Inquiry(LI)
the basics of each language is good
published from Chomsky’s home
disciplineforgrowingone’screativity
institution MIT. Considering that
and logic. If you have studied any
onlyafewKoreanscholarswereable
language at all, you will get a strong
to make it through the competitive
sense that he truly knows what he’s
closely followed the development of
selection process to publish in
talkingabout.
linguisticsthroughouttheyears.
Linguistic Inquiry, one could grasp
Kim Kwang-sup is a professor at
Going through Kim’s profile, it is
the scale of his work. Kim modestly
HankukUniversityofForeignStudies
clear that there was something that
explained that his paper was about
(HUFS)andadirectorattheTESOL
set him apart from other professors.
the usage of “that” and “for” in
Center. He himself graduated from
Heearnedtwomastersdegreesfrom
English sentences; when it is used,
HUFSasanEnglishmajorandwent
two different schools: one from
howitisused,andtherulesfollowed
through the same graduate school.
HUFS and the other one from the
initsusage.Butitwashardtoshake
“I’vestayedintheStatesasavisiting
UniversityofMaryland.He explains
the thought that holding on to the
student, when I was 29. I had never
that he was very lucky to become a
same words and analyzing them can
goneabroadbeforethen.”Itishardto
professor at the age of 31, which is
beexhausting.“Whenpeoplechoose
believe that his sustained interest in
quite early for scholars in the field
tobecomeascholar,thereareusually
studying English linguistics did not
of humanities. When he thought that
two reasons: they want to become
come from his experience abroad.
thenextthirtyyearsweregoingtobe
rich or they want to become famous.
What led him to tread this path was
nearlythesameasbefore,hedesired
Obviously, what I study isn’t a
a book he read in his junior year
a greater challenge. “I just think it
financiallypromisingjob.Ifeelpride
at HUFS. It was a book written by
was too early to become a professor.
John Ryan about Noam Chomsky’s
I chose to go to the University of
theories on language. A student who
Maryland and broaden the scope of
did not even know that there was
my study from English Linguistics
such a field of study as linguistics,
to Linguistics generally. It wouldn’t
Kim immediately decided that this
have made a big difference for the
was his calling. For him, there was
outcome in terms of employment,
noneedtoask“why”or“how”ashe
but I gained much experience and
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