WoS = Web of Science. KCI = Korea Citation Index.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
2026. Sim, Rok. “Explicit AmE/BrE label prompting in LLM generation: V1 choice in the transitive [V1 NP out of V2-ing] construction.” Language and Information, 30(1), 47–84.KCI
2026. Sim, Rok. “Predication and necessity in Korean NP-NOM NP-NOM philyoha- clauses.” Studies in Linguistics, 79, 247–278.KCI
2026. Noh, Hyeseon and Rok Sim. “Constructing the ‘other’: online racialized hate speech and perceived threats in South Korea.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–20.WoS: SSCI PDF
2026. Sim, Rok and Jungsoo Kim. “A collostructional approach to the concealed passive construction in English.” English Language and Linguistics, 1–24.WoS: A&HCI, SSCI PDF
2026. Blanchette, Frances, Stanley Dubinsky, Amanda Harman, and Rok Sim. “This construction needs understood: An experimental study of the Alternative Embedded Passive (AEP).” American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, 101(1), 20–50.WoS: A&HCI, SSCI PDF
2026. Sim, Rok. “Wh-amalgams in English: A construction-based analysis.” Korean Journal of Linguistics, 51(1), 113–157.KCI (Excellent Accredited Journal) PDF
2026. Crosby, Drew Michael, Amanda Dalola, and Rok Sim. “Operationalizing listener sensitivity: Bridging sociophonetic perception and social meaning in Korean aegyo.” Linguistic Research, 43(1), 257–294.WoS: ESCIKCI PDF
2026. Sim, Rok and Jiyeon Song. “Covert domain restriction and distributivity in Korean -ssik across humans and LLMs.” The Journal of Studies in Language, 41(4), 553–577.KCI PDF
2026. Sim, Rok and Drew Crosby. “Aegyo as a text-based probe for LLMs: Gradient cuteness and an (un)naturalness penalty.” Journal of Language Sciences, 33(1), 225–266.KCI PDF
2025. Sim, Rok and Jungsoo Kim. “Dialectal and constructional variation in the out of V-ing construction: A corpus-based analysis.” Language and Information, 29(3), 147–183.KCI PDF
2025. Sim, Rok. “Framing K-Beauty in U.S. and U.K. news: A corpus-based study.” The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 33(4), 129–161.KCI PDF
2025. Kim, Jungsoo and Rok Sim. “Persuasive Americans vs. brutal Brits? A collostructional study on the transitive out of V-ing construction.” Linguistic Research, 42(3), 739–769.WoS: ESCIKCI PDF
2025. Crosby, Drew and Rok Sim. “-Nuntey for not-at-issue content: A preliminary survey of procedural meaning in Korean.” The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 33(3), 97–128.KCI PDF
2025. Sim, Rok and Drew Crosby. “Phonology meets AI: Can ChatGPT detect and differentiate cuteness in Korean aegyo?” The Journal of Linguistic Science, 114, 389–419.KCI PDF
2024. Kim, Jungsoo and Rok Sim. “A collostructional and constructional approach to the transitive out of V-ing construction.” English Studies, 105(2), 263–289.WoS: A&HCI PDF
2023. Sim, Rok, Drew Crosby, and D. Eric Holt. “A vestige-theory variationist approach to the variable assimilation pattern in Korean nasal-liquid sequences.” Korean Journal of Linguistics, 48(4), 855–889.KCI (Excellent Accredited Journal) PDF
2023. Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim, and Rok Sim. “Case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis and the cue-based theory of sentence processing.” Journal of Linguistics, 59(2), 327–360.WoS: A&HCI, SSCI PDF
2020. Kim, Jungsoo, Mija Kim, and Rok Sim. “Iconicity and properties of Korean -ceney ‘before’ and -hwuey/-nase ‘after’ temporal clauses: A corpus-based perspective.” Korean Journal of Linguistics, 45(3), 477–513.KCI (Excellent Accredited Journal) PDF
2018. Kim, Jong-Bok and Rok Sim. “Horn-amalgam constructions: A construction-based analysis.” Studies in Generative Grammar, 28(4), 677–698.KCI PDF
2015. Sim, Rok and Jong-Bok Kim. “The transitive out-of V-ing construction in English: A corpus-based study (in Korean).” The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 23(4), 189–210.KCI PDF
Refereed Conference Proceedings
2024. Sim, Rok and Stanley Dubinsky. “Two classes of ‘anyone’: A contrastive analysis of amwu and nwukwu in Korean.” In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 47), 147–155.
2021. Sim, Rok and Stanley Dubinsky. “Concealed passives and the syntax and semantics of need/philyo in English and Korean.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 8(1), 1–8.
2019. Kim, Jong-Bok, Jungsoo Kim, and Rok Sim. “Conceptual metaphorical extensions of ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ in English and Korean: A usage-based approach.” In Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation.
2018. Nykiel, Joanna, Jong-Bok Kim, Rok Sim, and Okgi Kim. “Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 27(3), 1–14.