Minju Kim

Minju Kim is Professor of Korean at Claremont McKenna College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research interests include discourse-functional linguistics, grammaticalization, pragmatics, language education, and language and gender, and her research utilizes synchronic and diachronic corpus data. She published many articles in diverse journals including Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse Studies, Pragmatics, and Linguistics. She also authored the book Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb (2011). She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Korean Language in America, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Korean.