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College of Arts and Sciences

Department of English

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Education

PhD, Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States, 2013

Professional experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate/lecturer, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014 - 2017

Adjunct Instructor, Queens College, NY, United States, 2007 - 2010

Adjunct Professor, Lehman College, NY, United States, 2006 - 2007

Adjunct Professor, Passaic County Community College, NJ, United States, 2003 - 2004

Contact

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Dr. Ji Young Shim

Assistant Professor

PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States

Ji Young Shim is a versatile linguist, with an academic background and career in both theoretical and applied linguistics. She has taught in Linguistics/English/ESL departments at various institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. Her research and teaching interests include syntax, syntax-semantics interface, psycholinguistics, bilingualism and code-switching. She is a recipient of an NSF grant (BCS-1023709) and currently serves as an International Editorial Board member for Studies in Generative Grammar.

Publications

Aya Sallam And Ji Shim. Gender-biased English Language in Hip Hop Music, International Journal On Studies In English Language And Literature, 2021

Ji Shim. OV and VO Variation in Code-Switching, 2020

Ji Shim And Tabea Ihsane. A New Outlook of Complementizers, Languages, 2017

Ji Shim And Tabea Ihsane. English Overt and Null Complementizers, Studies In Generative Grammar, 2017

Ji Shim, Tabea Ihsane And Maria Parafita Couto. Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars, Languages, 2017

Ji Shim. Mixed Verbs in Code-Switching: The Syntax of Light Verbs, Languages, 2016

Ji Shim And Tabea Ihsane. Facts: The interplay between the matrix predicate and its clausal complement, Newcastle And Northumbria Working Papers In Linguistics, 2015

Ji Shim, Marcel Dikken, Anisa Schardl, Martin Walkow, Muhammad Abdurrahman, Anisa Schardl, Martin Walkow And Muhammad Abdurrahman. The Tense of Resultatives: the Case of Korean, Proceedings Of The 38th Annual Meeting Of The North East Linguistic Society, September September 2009

Conference Presentations

Code-switching between Emirati Arabic and English, Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference, 2021

Gender-biased language in world music, Critical Approaches To Media Discourse, 2020

Case ellipsis in code-switching, 2020 Snu Workshop On Case & Related Issues, October 2020

Word order in code-switching, 24 March 2020

The Influence of self-response to received peer feedback on the development of logic, clarity, and audience awareness: Sociocognitive perspective, 2019 Alak International Conference, 28 September 2019

Portmanteau sentences in code-switching, Transdisciplinary Approaches To Language Variation 2, 16 February 2019

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, FRG 20, AUS, 1 June 2020 - 31 May 2023