S. Robert Ramsey

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Samuel Robert Ramsey Jr. [a] (born 1941 [b] ) is an American linguist. He specializes in the linguistics of East Asian languages, especially Korean and Japanese. He is a professor of East Asian linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. [3] He is considered to be a significant Western academic on Korean linguistics. [4] Ramsey is the author of The Languages of China (1987).

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Biography

Ramsey first encountered the Korean language when he was dispatched to South Korea in 1966 as part of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). [5] [6] He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University in 1975. His thesis is entitled Accent and Morphology in Korean Dialects and his advisor was Samuel E. Martin. [1] From 1975 to 1984, he taught at Columbia University. [7] He received three Fulbright Scholarships throughout his career. [7]

Ramsey researched the historical Gyeongsang and Hamgyŏng dialects. [8] In 1998, he received a Presidential Commendation  [ ko ] from South Korean president Kim Dae-jung for service to the study of the Korean language (대한민국 한글유공자 대통령 표창). [9] [7]

In 2011, Ramsey and Ki-Moon Lee published A History of the Korean Language . [10] [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Referred to as "S. Robert Ramsey" in official profiles and works. Full name appears here: [1] [2]
  2. ↑ Birth year given in A History of the Korean Language

References

  1. 1 2 "Graduate Alumni". Yale University . Archived from the original on 2015-06-25.
  2. ↑ "Samuel Robert Ramsey". University of Maryland, College Park. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.
  3. ↑ "S. Robert Ramsey". University of Maryland, College Park . Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  4. ↑ "미국 로버트 램지 교수 '일석국어학상'". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). 2015-06-04. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  5. 1 2 "그들은 왜 한글을 배우는가 한반도 밖에서 바라본 한글의 모습". 한박 웃음 (in Korean). No. 75. National Hangeul Museum. October 2019. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  6. ↑ 이미아 (2015-06-09). "로버트 램지 "K팝·드라마로 위상 높아진 한국어…50년 연구 보람"". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean).
  7. 1 2 3 "S. ROBERT RAMSEY, Ph.D." Center for East Asian Studies, University of Maryland. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  8. ↑ 김재홍 (2009-10-07). "램지교수 "한글 세계서 가장 뛰어난 문자"". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  9. ↑ 고은지 (2015-06-04). "일석국어학상에 로버트 램지 美 메릴랜드대 교수". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  10. ↑ 허태준 (2015-06-05). "한국 사람보다 더 한글 사랑". 미주중앙일보 (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-09-29.
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