Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics: Southeast and East Asian Contexts

About

Trang Phan is an Assistant Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Dr. Phan completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield (England) in 2013 focusing on the structure and acquisition of Vietnamese verbal aspect. Following this she held a postdoctoral research position with the Cartographic Syntax project at Ghent University (Belgium) where she examined various aspects of Vietnamese clausal structure in a cross-linguistic perspective. From 2020 to 2021 Dr. Phan was a visiting scholar at Harvard Yenching Institute (USA) where she conducted research on the role of Vietnamese nominals in updating our current understanding of classifier languages. She has published numerous articles in esteemed linguistic journals and publishers in addition to co-editing the volume Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics (John Benjamins 2019) the Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society special issue Vietnamese Linguistics: State of the Field (University of Hawaii Press 2022) and the special issue Progress in Vietnamese Linguistics (Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 2024). She is the author of the monograph The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense Aspect and Negation  (Routledge 2023). Tuan-Cuong Nguyen is a Senior Researcher and an Associate Professor in Vietnamese Sinology. He currently serves as the Director of the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS); and holds the role of Adjunct Professor of Sinology at Vietnam National University Hanoi (VNU). In his prolific academic career Nguyen has made significant contributions with close to 100 journal articles and conference papers published in Vietnamese English Chinese and Japanese. Furthermore Nguyen authored and co-authored several books in Vietnamese language including The Structure of Vietnamese Nom Script: Continuance and Mutation (Hanoi: National University-Hanoi Publishing House 2012) and Confucian Primary Education: The Classic of Three Characters and Literacy in Vietnam (Hanoi: Social Sciences Publishers 2020). In addition to his Vietnamese publications Nguyen has co-edited three books in Chinese namely: Research on East Asian Sinographic Texts and Vietnamese Classical Dictionaries (Beijing: China Social Science Press 2017) Research on Vietnamese Classical Texts and East Asian Sinographs (Beijing: China Social Science Press 2019) New Perspectives on Vietnamese Sinology (Taipei: Student Book Co. LTD 2023). Masaaki Shimizu is a Professor in Vietnamese studies in the Division of Foreign Studies at the Graduate School of Humanities Osaka University Japan. He currently holds the position of vice-chairperson within the same division. Shimizu's scholarly contributions encompass a diverse range of works including Chinese and Vietnamese featured in the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (BRILL 2017) and several articles on Austroasiatic languages included in the Linguistic Atlas of Asia (Hituzi Syobo 2021). He has also co-authored several books in Japanese such as Vietnamese Grammar (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 2022) A Study of Sinoform Scripts: Principles of Glyph Creation (Kachosha 2022) and Introduction to the Study of Chinese Characters (The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation 2018).