Jung Jae Song is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Otago. His books include Causatives and Causation: A Universal-Typological Perspective, 1996 (Addison Wesley Longman); Case, Typology and Grammar, 1998, co-edited with Anna Siewierska (Benjamins); Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax, 2001 (Pearson); The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context, 2005 (Routledge); and Frontiers of Korean Language Acquisition, 2006 (Saffron Books). He has held visiting appointments with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), and La Trobe University (Melbourne).