prof. UAM dr hab.Ronald Kim

Ronald Kim
University professor

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • A.B. in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 1996
  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
  • D. Litt. in English Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2015

Research interests

  • Historical linguistics of Indo-European (especially Tocharian, Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Greek, Celtic, Anatolian) and Semitic (especially Aramaic)
  • Sociolinguistics and language variation; language contact and change; dialect geography; regional and ethnic varieties of North American English
  • Phonology (especially autosegmental, nonlinear, and prosodic) and morphology
  • Pidgin and creole linguistics (especially English-based contact languages of the Pacific)
  • Languages of eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia; Jewish diaspora languages

Teaching experience

  • History of the English language
  • Undergraduate and master’s lectures and seminars in historical linguistics, Indo-European studies, Germanic languages, sociolinguistics, language contact, dialectology, American English, World Englishes, pidgin and creole linguistics, phonology, morphology, and writing systems
  • Undergraduate and master’s thesis writing seminars

Editorial activity

  • General Editor (with Joseph F. Eska), Indo-European Linguistics
  • General Editor (with Petr Zemánek), Chatreššar: International Journal for Indo-European, Semitic, and Cuneiform Languages
  • Editorial Board, Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Lingua Posnaniensis
  • Board of Reviewers, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies
  • Board of Reviewers, Academic Journal of Modern Philology (Wrocław)

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 22nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
  • 17th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
  • NWAV(E) 27, University of Georgia, 1998
  • 23rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 1999
  • 18th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
  • NWAVE 28, York University and the University of Toronto, 1999 (with Matthew Igoe, Jonathan Gilman, and Nel Lamb)
  • 10th conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Chicago, 2000
  • 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
  • 28th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Portland, 2000
  • 19th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Georgia, 2000
  • 20th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell University, 2001
  • 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 (with William Labov)
  • 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
  • 21st East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
  • Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2002
  • 14th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2002
  • XI Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Camito-Semitica, Università di Bergamo, 2003
  • 22nd East Coast Indo-European Conference, Harvard University, 2003
  • 23rd East Coast Indo-European Conference, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 2004
  • 24th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
  • 17th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2005.
  • 25th East Coast Indo-European Conference, The Ohio State University, 2006
  • 18th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2006
  • 26th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Yale University, 2007
  • Conference on Indo-European Studies, Kyoto University, 2007
  • 27th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Georgia, 2008
  • Tocharian Centennial Conference, Russian State University for the Humanities, 2008
  • XIII. Internationale Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Universität Salzburg, 2008
  • 7th Medieval English Studies Symposium, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2008
  • Fifth Conference on Teaching of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (TELL), National Kaohsiung Normal University, 2008 (keynote speaker)
  • Summer Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Universität zu Köln, 2009
  • Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 2009
  • Workshop on Indo-European Accentology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2010
  • 2nd YLMP, Poznań, 2010
  • Languages in Contact, Wrocław, 2010 (keynote speaker)
  • 29th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell University, 2010
  • 41st PLM, Poznań, 2010
  • Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, UCLA, 2010
  • The Sound of Indo-European 2, Silesian University of Opava, 2010
  • 30th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Harvard University, 2011
  • Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2011
  • 3rd YLMP, Poznań, 2012
  • 31st East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of California, 2012
  • 43rd PLM, Poznań, 2012
  • 32nd East Coast Indo-European Conference, Poznań, 2013
  • Tocharian Texts in Context, Universität Wien, 2013
  • 33rd East Coast Indo-European Conference, Virginia Tech, 2014
  • Colloque de travail de la Société des Études Indo-Européennes, Paris, 2014
  • 34th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Universität Wien, 2015
  • Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2015
  • "Diachrony and Suppletion", Charles University in Prague, 2015
  • Workshop “Indo-European from Within: Explaining IE Subphyla by Themselves”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2016
  • Languages in Contact, Wrocław, 2016 (keynote speaker)
  • 35th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Georgia, 2016
  • XV. Internationale Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Universität Wien, 2016
  • 36th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell University, 2017
  • Workshop “Telescopic and Microscopic Visions of Central Asian History”, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, 2017
  • 37th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Michigan, 2018
  • 8th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, Yerevan, 2018
  • 30th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2018
  • 6th YLMP, Poznań, 2018
  • 38th East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 2019
  • 14th Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society, Universität Potsdam, 2019
  • 31st UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2019
  • 39th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Virginia Tech, 2020 (Zoom)
  • "Tocharian in Progress", Leiden University, 2020 (Zoom)
  • 40th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell / Virginia Tech, 2021 (Zoom)
  • Oxford Workshop on Indo-European Accentuation, University of Oxford, 2021 (Zoom)
  • 9th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021 (Zoom)
  • 32nd UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2021 (Zoom)
  • Workshop "The Lexicon-Grammar Interface in the Synchrony and Diachrony of Armenian", Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, 2022 (Zoom)
  • Symposium "Attested Middle Chinese in Early Foreign Transcriptions and Loanwords", Indiana University Europe Gateway (Berlin), 2022
  • 41st East Coast Indo-European Conference, Harvard University, 2022
  • 33rd UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2022
  • 42nd East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of North Carolina, 2023

Invited lectures

  • University of Pennsylvania, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2022
  • Princeton University, 2001, 2002
  • Swarthmore College, 2002, 2007
  • University of California, 2003
  • Cornell University, 2006
  • Kyoto University, 2006, 2017 (2x), 2019
  • Harvard University, 2006, 2013
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2008, 2009, 2011-2012 (lecture series), 2012, 2014, 2018
  • American Day, Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, 2008
  • Jagiellonian University, 2010, 2017
  • Kingston University, 2010
  • Charles University, Prague, 2012 (lecture series), 2013
  • 111 Years of English Studies in Poznań, 2014
  • Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2014 (Summer School lecture series), 2016, 2017
  • Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2015 (lecture series)
  • Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 2016
  • University of Groningen, 2020 (Zoom), 2022 (Zoom)
  • University of California, Los Angeles, 2020 (Zoom)
  • Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino, 2021 (Zoom)
  • Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, 2023

Stipends and awards

  • Erasmus+ teaching exchange, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, January 2020
  • Heiwa Nakajima Foundation fellowship, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Spring 2017
  • AMU research travel grant, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, September 2013
  • Junior Research Grant, Swarthmore College, Spring 2007
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Cornell University, 2002-03
  • University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-02
  • William Penn Graduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-2000

Research projects and grants

  • "Ossetic Historical Grammar and the Dialectology of Early Iranian", National Science Centre Poland, 2020-23 (project nr. 2019/35/B/HS2/01273)
  • “The Historical Morphology of the Old Armenian Verb”, Czech Science Foundation, 2017-19 (project nr. GA17-19686S)
  • Faculty research grant "Language in the Transformations of Time, Place, and Culture", Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2017 (PROGRES 4), 2018- (PROGRES Q10)
  • “Ancient Indo-European Languages for the 21st Century”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2018–
  • "Indo-European Cognate Relationships (IE-CoR)", Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2015-
  • “Diachronic Typology of Suppletion”, Czech Science Foundation, 2014-16 (project nr. GA14-10673S; with Jan Bičovský, Reiner Lipp, Dagmar Muchnová, Lucie Pultrová, and Petr Zemánek)

Awards

  • Adam Mickiewicz University rector's prize for publications, 2019