A state-of-the-fields workshop organized by Trang Phan (HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21), in collaboration with John Phan (Assistant Professor, Columbia University), sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
Day 1: 16 April 2021
8am -8.15 Opening speech
Panel 1: Historical Linguistics
- 8.15-9.00 Masaaki Shimizu (Osaka University) Philological Study of Vietnamese History -Nôm Materials for 19th-Century Southern Dialect
- 9.00-9.45 Mark Alves (Montgomery College) Lexical Evidence of the Vietic Household Before and After Language Contact with Sinitic
- 9.45-10.30 John Phan (Columbia University) & Hilario DeSousa (EHESS-CRLAO) Southwestern Middle Chinese: Evidence from Xiang, Pinghua, and Sino-Vietnamese
Panel 2: Phonetics & Phonology
- 10.45-11.30 Marc Brunelle (University of Ottawa) & Phạm Thị Thu Hà (Hồ Chí Minh City University of Education) Individual and task-conditioned variation in the intonation of southern Vietnamese
- 11.30-12.15 James Kirby (University of Edinburgh) & Mark Alves (Montgomery College) Exploring Statistical Regularities in the Syllable Canon of Sino-Vietnamese Loanword Phonology
Day 2: 17 April 2021
Panel 3: Morphology & Syntax
- 8am -8.45 Nigel Duffield (Konan University) UG in the Eye of the Beholder: a Naturalist’s Take on Syntactic Variation
- 8.45-9.30 Trần Phan & Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University Taiwan) Non-canonical what-questions in Vietnamese
- 9.30-10.15 Michal Starke (Masaryk University) & Trang Phan (Vietnam National University Hanoi) Yes-No questions and the Vietnamese clause structure
Panel 4: Semantics & Pragmatics
- 10.30-11.15 Yi-Ling Irene Liao, Trần Phan & Tzong‐Hong Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) An antisymmetry approach to post-nominal modification in Vietnamese
- 11.15-12.00 Trang Phan (Vietnam National University Hanoi) & Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) Putting three pieces of a puzzle into place: classifiers – plurals – articles in Vietnamese
- 12.00-12.45 Tue Trinh (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) Remarks on the Vietnamese pronominal system
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