Agenda

30-31 January 2025

30 January 2025
9.00-9.15 (Venice time) Welcome speech (Trang Phan & Giorgio Francesco Arcodia)

PANEL 1: SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS

9.15-10.00 Trần Phan (National Tsing Hua University) & Barbara Meisterernst (University of Stuttgart), Vietnamese há from a diachronic syntax perspective

10.00-10.45 Yi-Ling Liao & Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University), The “wh-adverbs” vì sao / tại sao ‘why’ in Vietnamese as verbs

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.00 Anh La (University College London), Quantifier scope in Vietnamese

12.00-12.45 Tue Trinh (ZAS), Polar questions with narrow focus in Vietnamese: another argument for the bi-clausal analysis

12.45-14.15 Lunch break

PANEL 2: PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY

14.15-15.00 Masaaki Shimizu (Osaka University), The role of Thi Vận Tập Yếu in the formation of modern Sino-Vietnamese readings

15.00-15.45 Vũ Đức Nghiệu (Vietnam National University Hanoi) & Mark Alves (Montgomery College), Recategorizing Wang Li’s proposed Vietnamized Sino-Vietnamese Vocabulary as early Chinese loanwords

15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-17.00 Tạ Thành Tấn (Hanoi University of Education) & Marc Brunelle (University of Ottawa), Reversed register in Cuối Chăm and other Vietic languages

17.00-17.45 Sandrien van Ommen (University of Geneva), Serial verb constructions in Vietnamese

17.45-18.30 Andrew Simpson & Linh Pham (University of Southern California), The syntax of null possessors with kinship terms and body parts nouns in Vietnamese

19.00 Conference Dinner

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