Trang Phan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Trang Phan is involved.

Title

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics

Edited by Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh

This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] 2019. vii, 304 pp.

Articles

Phan, Trang and Gennaro Chierchia 2026 Putting three pieces of a puzzle into place: Classifiers–plurals–articles in Vietnamese New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 436–458 | Chapter

Vietnamese exhibits characteristics that challenge the typological distinction between Sino-Tibetan classifier languages and Indo-European number-marking languages. Notably, (i.a) many nouns combine directly with numerals without classifiers, (i.b) it has developed two productive plural markers,… read more

Phan, Trang and Nigel Duffield 2019 Chapter 4. A more perfect unification: Exploring a Nano-syntactic solution to Vietnamese đã Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh (eds.), pp. 69–80 | Chapter

In this paper, we provide a new analysis of the Negative Constraint in Vietnamese, whereby the anterior morpheme đã loses its perfect reading in negative contexts. The Nanosyntax approach adopted here is claimed to derive this constraint without the stipulations inherent in existing formal accounts… read more