Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics: Southeast and East Asian Contexts

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＂ by John Benjamins (2019) and co-editing the Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society special issue ＂Vietnamese Linguistics: State of the Field＂ published by the University of Hawai’i Press (2022). She is the author of the monograph ’The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation’ published by Routledge in 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).