Thi Huyen Trang PHAN

CURRICULUM VITAE

INFORMATION:
Surname: PHAN

Name:  Trang

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3008-9590

Scopus ID: 57206720435

SHORT BIO:

I am an Assistant Professor (RTDb) of Vietnamese language and linguistics in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. My research focuses on the syntax of Vietnamese, exploring how it compares and contrasts with other Asian languages, how it has evolved over time, and how it is acquired by learners from different linguistic backgrounds. I am the author of the monograph The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation (Routledge, 2023) and the co-author of the 3 trilingual (Vietnamese-English-Italian) textbooks of Vietnamese entitled Vietnamese Vibes 1, 2, 3 (Cafoscarina Press, 2024). I co-edited several edited volumes including Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics (John Benjamins, 2019), Vietnamese Linguistics: State of the Field (University of Hawai'i Press, 2022), Progress in Vietnamese Linguistics (Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2024), and Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics: Southeast and East Asian Contexts (Springer Nature, 2024).

EDUCATION:
·      07/08/2024 Habilitations (ASN). Qualified as Associate Professor in the 10/N3 (Cultures of Central and East Asia) academic field (valid until 07/08/2035, art. 16, paragraph 1, Law 240/10)

·      24/10/2013 PhD, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, England

·      2007 BA (honor) in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Vietnamese Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National UniversityHanoi, Vietnam

- Graduated Summa cum laude

- The first-laureate of the 2007 graduation year (GPA: 9,12/10), Vietnam National University Hanoi.

CURRENT POSITION:
2023 - present Assistant Professor (Tenure-track, RTDb), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
·      2021-2023 Head, Community of Practice Vietnam’s Language & Culture, Vietnam National University Hanoi

·      2020-2021 Visiting Scholar, Harvard Yenching Institute, Cambridge, USA

·      2018-2023 Lecturer, Department of Vietnamese Language and Culture, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam

·      2017-2018 Lecturer, Department of English Studies, University of Hai Duong, Vietnam

                        Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam

·      2014-2016 Post-doctoral researcher, Department of English Studies, Ghent University, Belgium

·      2008-2013 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Vietnamese Studies, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam

FELLOWSHIPS:
·      2024: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France. ERC visiting felllowship. The Vietnamica project (ERC Advanced Grant, 2019-2024).  PI: Philippe PAPIN.

·      2022-2023 Konan University’s Visiting Researcher. Project: Progress in Vietnamese linguistics. KAKEN grant 21K00538.

·      2020-2021 Harvard Yenching Institute’s Visiting Scholar. Project: When plurals do co-occur with classifiers: from Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese perspectives.

·      2014-2016 Post-doctoral Researcher. Project: Comparative syntax. Layers of structure and the cartography, Funded by FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders). FWO project 2009-Odysseus-Haegeman-G091409.

AWARDS:
·      2023 Top 1 University of Languages & International Studies Research Award

·      2023 Top 10 Community of Practice (COP) with outstanding impact, University of Languages & International Studies

·      2022 Top 3 University of Languages & International Studies Research Award

·      2020 Top 5 University of of Languages & International Studies Research Award

·      2020 Most Popular Educator Award, University of Languages & International Studies

·      2019 Top 3 early-career faculty members who have excellent research output, University of Languages & International Studies

·      2007 The first prize of the Scientific Research Contest for undergraduate students, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Research topic: Nam Dinh toponyms – where language intertwines with culture

·      2006 The first prize of the Scientific Research Contest for undergraduate students, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Research topic: Exploring linguistic aspects of poetry via Han Mac Tu’s poems

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS; PhD POSTDOC STUDENTS:
·      2024: Proposed Host, Chingduang Yurayong, Postdoc. Proposed project: Word order in linguistic diversification along the Silk Road network (WORLDSILK). MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Application. Submitted on 11 September 2024

·      2024: Third advisor, Phan Ngoc Tran, PhD, National Tsing Hua University. Dissertation: Where Two Ends Meet: Non-at-issue Meanings on the Syntactic Treetops of Vietnamese (Primary advisors: Dylan Tsai and  Barbara Meisterernst)

·      2023: Primary Advisor, Vu Thi Giang, MA, University of Languages & International Studies VNU. Thesis: Wh-questions in Japanese and Vietnamese.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
·      2023-present: Vietnamese 1, Vietnamese 2, Southeast Asian Literature 1. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

·      2018-2023: General Linguistics, Introduction to Vietnamese linguistics, Vietnamese Cultural Profile, Vietnamese A, B, C. Vietnam National University Hanoi

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:
2021 - present: Co-founder of International Symposium of Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL) which was formed after the founding workshop at Harvard Yenching

Institute, Cambridge MA. 2021.

·      Co-organized 5 annual workshops (2021 in Cambridge MA, 2022 in Hanoi, 2023 in Kobe, 2024 in Taiwan, 2025 in Venice.

·      Co-edited 1 special issue of Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2022) and 2 special issues of Taiwan Journal of Linguistics (2024, 2025). Currently preparing the follow-up publication of the 2024 workshop as a special issue of Languages.

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
·      2024-present: Member of PhD committee, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

·      2023- present: Internship tutor of Southeast Asian students, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

·      2019-2023:  Postgraduate admissions interviewer for English, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, VNU University of Languages & International Studies.

·      2021-2023: Organizing Committee, Summer Study Tour Discover Vietnam in 2 weeks for BA students of National Chengchi University, Department of Foreign Affairs, VNU University of Languages & International Studies.

·      2019- 2023: Judging Panel, Understanding Asian communities’s presentation contest for undergraduate students, funded by VNU Asia Research Center.

REVIEWING ACTIVITIES:
·      2023 - present Editorial member, Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SCOPUS), University of Hawaii Press

·      2023 - present Editorial member, Journal of Universal Language (ANVUR), Sejong University

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
·      2022-2024 Member of the Interdisciplinary Committee of Linguistics & Literature, Vietnam National Foundation for Science & Technology Development (NAFOSTED), Vietnam Ministry Science & Technology

·      2023 Member of the Interview Panel of Linguistics at Harvard Yenching Institute, Visiting Scholar Scheme

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS:
·      2022-2023 Co-PI. Interdisciplinary approach to East and Southeast Asian historical linguistics: a case study of Sino-Vietnamese không. Harvard Yenching Institute’s Cross-National Interdisciplinary Research Grant.

·      2021-2023 Researcher. NCCR Evolving Language. The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (PI: Balthasar Bickel)

·      2020-2023 Collaborator. Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind. ERC under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, grant number 856421.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
MAIN AUTHOR:
·      under revision: Phan, T., Nguyen, T. C. & Shimizu, M. The Evolution of Perfect Aspect Markers in Vietnamese: A Diachronic Study from the 13th to 20th Century. Submitted to Journal of Historical Syntax.

·      2025: Phan, T. & Chierchia, G. Putting three pieces of a puzzle into place: classifiers - plurals - articles in Vietnamese. In A. Simpson (ed.), New insights into theoretical syntax from Asian languages. Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang. John Benjamins, chapter 13.

·      2024a: Phan, T., Nguyen, T. C. & Shimizu, M. (eds). Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics: East and Southeast Asian contexts. Singapore: Springer Nature.

·      2024b: Phan, T., Nguyen, T. C. & Shimizu, M. The rise of negative markers in Vietnamese: evidence from primary Nôm texts. In T. Phan, T. C. Nguyen & M. Shimizu (eds). Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics: East and Southeast Asian contexts. Singapore: Springer Nature, 29–50.

·      2024c: Phan, T., Basciano, B. & Chu, L. Asymmetry in the acquisition of directed motion constructions in L2 Vietnamese: A comparative study of Chinese and Korean learners. Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie Orientale, 60, 1–44.

·      2024d: Phan, T., & Vu, G. Wh-questions in Japanese: Challenges for Vietnamese L2 learners. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 14(1), 87-109.

·      2023: Phan, T. The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect and Negation. London: Routledge.

Endorsements:

'There is tense in “tenseless” languages. This book investigates key aspects of the clause structure of an understudied language in a remarkably clear and insightful way. It’s a beautiful example of the richness of modern generative linguistics. Also Vietnamese now becomes a protagonist in the exciting debate on the nature of crosslinguistic variation.' Prof. Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University.

'This book is of a very high value, not just for researchers specializing in Vietnamese linguistics, but clearly for all theoretical linguists. Vietnamese is a language of a very specific type; it is an analytic language with no inflection typically wearing its logical structure on its sleeves. As such, results arrived at for Vietnamese will very often have direct repercussions for the analysis of other languages as well. ' Prof. Daniel Hole, University of Stuttgart.

·      2022a: Phan, T., Phan, J. & Alves, M. (eds). Vietnamese Linguistics: State of the field. University of Hawai’i Press.

·      2022b: Phan, T. & Chierchia, G. Identifying (in)definiteness in Vietnamese. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 15.2 (2022): 27–49.

·      2022c: Phan, T. & Starke, M. 2022. Yes- No question and the Vietnamese clause structure. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, special publication no.9, 192–211.

·      2022d: Phan, T. & Duffield, N.. A road map to Vietnamese phrase structure. In C. Shei & S. Li (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics. Chapter 9, pp. 165-185. London & New York: Routledge.

·      2021a: Phan, T., Trinh, T. & Phan, H. Deriving four generalizations about nominals in three classifier languages. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 66 (4): 470 –485.

·      2021b: Phan, T. & Lam, Q.D. Decomposing Definiteness in Vietnamese. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society JSEALS 14.1: 1-18.

·      2019a: Phan, T. & Francis, N. Chữ Nôm and the cradle of Vietnamese poetry. Letter to the Editor. Journal of Chinese Writing Systems. January 2019, 3(1): 69–71.

·      2019b: Phan, T. & Duffield, N. A more perfect unification: exploring a Nano-syntactic solution to Vietnamese đã. In N. Duffield, T. Phan & T. Trinh (eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics. Studies in Language Companion Series 211, pp. 69-80. John Benjamins.

·      2019c: Phan T. The absence of classifiers in numeral classifier constructions in Vietnamese. In M. Bağrıaçık, A. Breitbarth & K. De Clercq (eds.). Mapping Linguistic Data. Essays in honour of Liliane Haegeman. WebFestschrift, pp. 208-213. Ghent: Ghent University.

·      2019d: Phan, T. & Duffield, N. The Vietnamese perfect: a compositional analysis. In A. Patard, R. Peltola & E. Roussel (eds.), Crosslinguistic perspectives on the semantics of grammatical aspect, pp. 38-63. Cahiers Chronos. Brill.

·      2018a: Phan, T. & Duffield, N. To be tensed or not to be tensed: The case of Vietnamese. Investigationes Linguisticae 41: 105-125.

·      2018b. Phan, T. & Tsai, D. Some observations on Vietnamese demonstratives. Proceedings of the 5th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS), pp. 128-131. IEEE.

·      2016: Phan, T. & Lander, E. Vietnamese and the NP-DP parameter. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 60(3): 391–415.

·      2013: Phan, T. The projection of Inner Aspect in Vietnamese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics . A thematic issue on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar, 12(1): 41-62.

CO-AUTHORS:
·      2024. Arcodia, G. & Phan, T. A historical and comparative perspective on grammatical marking of past tense in Sinitic: on 来(着) Lái(Zhe) and related particles. In T. Phan, T.C. Nguyen & M. Shimizu (eds). Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics: East and Southeast Asian contexts, 173–197. Singapore: Springer.

·      2024: Trinh, T., Phan T., Vu, D. N. Negation and polar questions in Vietnamese: present and past. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 22(1): 67–88.

·      2018. Greco, C., Phan, T. & Haegeman, L. On nó, an optional expletive in Vietnamese. In F. Cognola & J. Casalicchio (eds). Null Subjects in Generative Grammar, pp. 31-52. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

·      2017. Greco, C., Haegeman, L. & Phan, T. Expletives and speaker-related meaning. In M. Sheehan & Laura R. Bailey (eds.), Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure, pp. 69-93. Berlin: Language Science Press.