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Baek, Seung Ik. 2012. Possibility As New Typological Standard In Multi Languages: KIC index. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 37-1, 157-177. Modern English is said to be nearer to the isolating language than the inflectional. Then, how far is English from inflectional languages? Is it impossible to compare among English, agglutinative and inflectional languages? In case of KIC index, it's possible. KIC index (Keeping morpheme ing category) means establishing "emic" standard with common "ing" translations, then checking whether keeping its category or not after the morpho-syntactic change, and finally indexing. This paper analyzes "ing" from English novel, Jane Eyre, and shows how different the result is from our typological belief after the comparison with translated texts in Korean, German, French and Japanese. KIC index "Verb" proved the general belief that English is nearer to the inflectional language than the agglutinative, and its main reason was the grammatical distinction from embedded and adverbial clauses between typologies. On the other hand, KIC index "Adverb" showed results to reflect syntactic characters of each language. Against our belief, German showed the lowest KIC index because it frequently switched "ing" structures into clauses. Reversely, Korean showed the relatively higher rate of the conservation in "Adverb". KIC index provides a new typological standard by using Jane Eyre and 4 kinds of the morpheme "ing" morpho-syntactic behavior. This paper suggests not only the Korean share in typology but also the index including complex sentences. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)