Seongha Rhee, Kultida Khammee

Seongha Rhee is Professor of Linguistics at Faculty of Liberal Arts, Mahidol University, Thailand and Professor Emeritus of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas, Austin in 1996. He published World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2019, CUP, co-author); book chapters in Grammaticalization Scenarios (2020, Mouton), The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics (2021, CUP), The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (2011, OUP), etc.; and research articles in Nature (co-author), Journal of Pragmatics, Language Sciences, and Lingua, among others. His primary research interest is to identify cognitive mechanisms of grammaticalization from crosslinguistic, typological perspectives.

Kultida Khammee earned her Ph.D. in applied linguistics from Mahidol University, Thailand and has been teaching at University of Phayao, Thailand since 2012. She has published research articles in Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Journal of Linguistic Science, Journal of Language Teaching and Research, World Journal of English Language, among others, and a book chapter in Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture (2024, Routledge). Her primary research interests include developing teaching methodology and materials in TESOL, research methods, text analysis, cultural studies, cognitive linguistics, and language change from cross-linguistic and typological perspectives.