Books by William O'Grady

Provides a highly readable introduction to Korean pronunciation for students at all levels of proficiency. Beginners will find the information and practice they need to cross the threshold of intelligibility in Korean, while more advanced students will have the opportunity to fine-tune their pronunciation and improve their comprehension.

This "root dictionary" of Korean for second language learners contains more than 1500 vocabulary lists consisting of words built from a shared root. Upon encountering a word, the student can consult the list for its component roots and discover other semantically related words.

This approach to the study of sentence formation builds on the emergentist thesis that the structure and use of language is shaped by more basic, non-linguistic forces rather than by an innate Universal Grammar. William O'Grady situates emergentism in a broader picture