Research Interests
- Korean language and linguistics
- Korean language pedagogy
- Grammaticalization
His doctoral research is regarding Korean nominalized expressions such as '-nun kes' with a focus on their grammaticalization theory and their modal and pragmatic functions in natural discourse. His research focuses on nominalizers (or nominalized constructions) and how they have gone through a semantic change from a nominalizer to a modal expression, especially when used in a predicate.
