Presentations

2025. “A unified theory of meta-questions” (with Danny Fox & Itai Bassi). NELS 56, New York University, 17/10/2025. [Slides]
2025. “Conditional questions” (with Itai Bassi). University of Pennsylvania, 16/10/2025.
2025. “Weak Crossover, competition, and intervention” (with Itai Bassi & Uli Sauerland). NYU Semantics Group, New York University, 15/10/2025.
2025. “Tractatrian non-sense and linguistic theory” (with Salvatore Pistoia-Reda). The New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, New York University, 14/10/2025.
2025. “The set of alternatives must be a good question” (with Itai Bassi), Konstanz Linguistics Conference 2025, Universität Konstanz, Germany, 10/10/2025.
2025. “The Vietnamese writing system.” Lectures series on Vietnamese language and culture, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 07/10/2025 (online talk)
2025. “On Wittgenstein on translation.” The 46th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 15/08/2025.
2025. “Illocutionary verbs are phase heads” (with Itai Bassi). Syntax Circle, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany, 09/07/2025.
2025. “On the Vietnamese writing system.” Department of South East Asian Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 03/07/2025.
2025. “On symmetry breaking and simplex threats” (with Itai Bassi). Summer workshop on (A)symmetries, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany, 01/07/2025.
2025. “Forms of address in Vietnamese.” Lecture Series on South East Asian Societies and Cultures, Department of South East Asian Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 06/06/2025.
2025. “Symmetry breaking, Partition by Exhaustification, and Fatal Competition.” Semantics-Pragmatics Research Seminar, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany, 27/05/2025.
2025. “In defense of naive intuition.” Lecture Series on Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 13/05/2025.
2025. “Illocutionary verbs are phase heads” (with Danny Fox & Itai Bassi). Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 12/05/2025.
2025. “Polar questions with narrow focus in Vietnamese: another argument for the bi-clausal analysis.” ISVL 5, Ca’ Foscari University, 30/01/2025. [Slides]
2024. “Speech acts in grammar: Arguments from meta-questions” (with Itai Bassi & Danny Fox). NYU Semantics Group, New York University, 10/12/2024. [Slides]
2024. “Speech acts in grammar: Arguments from meta-questions” (with Itai Bassi & Danny Fox). Workshop in honor of Irene Heim, MIT, Cambridge, 07/12/2024. [Poster]
2024. “Logicality and the abstraction approach to natural language.” Umass Amherst, Amherst, 06/12/2024. [Slides]
2024. “Well-formedness is meaningfulness: Exploring an old idea.” CISCL Philosophy Seminars, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, 27/11/2024. [Flyer]
2024. “Conditional questions as matrix questions with syntactic reconstruction” (with Itai Bassi). IATL 38, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 27/10/2024. [Handout]
2024. “Partition by Exhaustification and polar questions.” Invited talk, The Biennial of Czech Linguistics, PQs Workshop, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 20/09/2024. [Slides]
2024. “Conditional questions as matrix questions” (with Itai Bassi). Sinn und Bedeutung 29, Consorzio Universitario Mediterraneo Orientale, Noto, Italy, 19/09/2024. [Abstract]
2024. “Conditional questions as matrix questions” (with Itai Bassi). Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 28/06/2024. [Poster]
2024. Commentary on Michael Beaney’s book “The Joy of Chinese Philosophy”, chapter 7 “The dynamics of Zhuangzian logic.” The Joy of Chinese Philosophy: A workshop on Michael Beaney’s forthcoming book, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 15/06/2024. [Text]
2024. “No means no: An analysis of Vietnamese yes/no questions.” The 60th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, 27/04/2024. [Poster][Abstract]
2024. “A semantic constraint on polar questions in Vietnamese.” Polar Question Meaning[s] Across Languages, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 12/04/2024. [Abstract]
2024. “Clause-final negation is sentential negation: An analysis of Vietnamese polar questions.” The 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning (TLLM 4), Tsinghua University, Beijing, 30/03/2024. [Slides]
2024. “Questions and connectives” (with Itai Bassi). The 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning (TLLM 4), Tsinghua University, Beijing, 30/03/2024. [Slides]
2024. “Similarity, uncertainty, and dismissiveness.” ISVL-4, NYCU, Hsinchu, 16/03/2024. [Slides]
2023. “Bút ký về lý thuyết ngôn ngữ của Trần Đức Thảo” [Notes on Tran Duc Thao’s theory of language]. Hội thảo khoa học quốc tế: Trần Đức Thảo – Một số vấn đề triết học và lịch sử [Tran Duc Thao – Some philosophical and historica issues], 28/12/2023, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, Hanoi, Vietnam. [Slides]
2023. “Lại của sự im lặng.” Đào Philotalk, 16/12/2023, Hanoi, Vietnam. [Slides]
2023. “Đúng và sai trong hư cấu” [Truth and falsehood in fiction]. Comparative Literature in South East Asia: History, Theory, and Practice, 14/12/2023, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam. [Slides]
2023. “Diễn ngôn tự do gián tiếp: Một dẫn luận ngắn.” Toạ đàm Khoa học về Diễn ngôn Gián tiếp Tự do và Văn bản Văn chương, Viện Văn học, 11/12/2023, Hanoi, Vietnam. [Slides]
2023. “Luận lý, ngữ pháp, và khái niệm ‘mệnh đề’ trong Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.” Khoa Triết học, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, 09/12/2023, Hanoi, Vietnam. [Slides]
2023. “A binding theoretic account of a typological divide.” Jezik & Linguistics Colloquia, 12/10/2023, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia. [Slides]
2023. “Alternatives of exceptives.” SinFonIJA 16, 23/09/2023, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. [Slides]
2023. “Exceptives and cardinality.” Sinn und Bedeutung 28, 08/09/2023, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany. [Slides]
2023. “Notes on the pronunciation and interpretation of the IEC morpheme in Vietnamese.” Topics in Vietnamese Linguistics, 06/09/2023, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. [Slides]
2023. “Asking about asking (about asking): Revisiting the Performative Hypothesis.” SLE 56, 30/08/2023, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. [Slides]
2023. “Of pictures and trivialities.” The 44th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 11/08/2023, Kirchberg, Austria. [Slides]
2023. “Logicality and the picture theory of language.” The 11th annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP), 13/07/2023, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. [Slides]
2023. “Two arguments for the Performative Hypothesis.” Invited talk, 22/06/2023, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. [Slides]
2023. “A note on speech act recursion.” Olinco, 09/06/2023, Olomouc, Czech Republic. [Slides]
2023. “Trivialities and transformative analysis.” 30/05/2023, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. [Handout]
2023. “Similative reduplication in Vietnamese.” SEALS 32, 17/05/2023, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. [Slides]
2023. “A note on NPI licensing in Vietnamese” (with Viet Cao). TEAL 13, 13/05/2023, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. [Poster]
2023. “Contextual bias anti-licenses NPIs in polar questions.” SALT 33, 12/05/2023, Yale University, New Haven, USA. [Slides]
2023. “On Gisbert Fanselow’s (2002) argument against VP remnant movement.” Gisbert Fanselow’s Contributions to Syntactic Theory & GGS 47, 28/04/2023, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. [Slides]
2023. “A constraint on performative prefixes.” GLOW 46, 13/04/2023, University of Vienna, Austria. [Abstract]
2023. “NPI licensing in English and Vietnamese: A comparative analysis.” ISVL-3. Konan University, Kobe, 18/03/2023. [Slides]
2022. “Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: A new argument from ellipsis” (poster with Itai Bassi and Aron Hirsch). SALT 32, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, 08/06/2022. [Slides]
2022. “Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: A new argument from ellipsis” (poster with Itai Bassi and Aron Hirsch). WCCFL 40, Stanford University, 13/05/2022. [Handout]
2022. “Excursive questions” (with Itai Bassi). Workshop on non-canonical interrogatives across languages. University of Tartu, 13/05/2022. [Slides]
2022. “Excursive questions” (with Itai Bassi). GLOW 45. Queen Mary University of London, London, 28/04/2022. [Slides] [Poster]
2022. “Comparing the derivation of modal domains and strengthened meanings.” The 3rd Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning. Tsinghua University, 03/04/2022. [Abstract]
2022. “Vietnamese polar questions.” ISVL-2. Konan University, 20/03/2022. [Slides]
2022. “Negative and interrogative markers in Vietnamese: present and past” (with Vũ Đức Nghiệu & Trang Phan). ISVL-2. Konan University, 19/03/2022. [Slides]
2021. “Assertability differences between epistemic adverbs and adjectives” (poster with Kazuko Yatsushiro, Marzena Żygis, Stephanie Solt, Anton Benz and Manfred Krifka). Sinn und Bedeutung 26. Universität Köln, 08/09/2021. [Slides][Abstract]
2021. “Remarks on the Vietnamese pronoun system.” Vietnamese Linguistics, Typology and Language Universals. Harvard Yenching Institute, 17/04/2021. [Slides]
2020. “Bipartite exhaustification: Evidence from Vietnamese.” The 2nd Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning. Tsinghua University, 19/12/2020. [Slides]
2020. “Introspection, ignorance, and epistemic modals.” (with Luka Crnič). SALT 30, Cornell University, 19/08/2020. [Slides]
2020. “A puzzle about free choice and negative bias.” From T to C: The Grammatical Representation of Tense and Speech Acts. Institute of Linguistics, Hanoi, 17/01/2020. [Slides]
2020. “Của người và mèo: Ngữ pháp tạo sinh và sự thay đổi nhãn quan trong cách nghiên cứu ngôn ngữ tự nhiên.” Viện Văn học, Hanoi, 13/01/2020. [Slides]
2019. “Rule I and speech act representation.” SPAGAD-1: Syntactic and Semantic Modeling. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 30/10/2019. [Poster]
2019. “A more inclusive theory of numerals” (with Andreas Haida). SinFonIJA 12, Brno, 12/9/2019. [Abstract] [Slides]
2019. “Hữu thể và thời gian trong lý thuyết ngữ pháp.” Viện Ngôn ngữ học, Hanoi, 22/6/2019.
2019. “Notes on counting and L-analyticity” (with Andreas Haida). Workshop on the Meaning of Numerals, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 27/3/2019. [Abstract]
2018. “The Participant Pronoun Restriction: English and Vietnamese” (with Hubert Truckenbrodt). The 5th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science, Ho Chi Minh City, 23/11/2018. [Slides]
2018. “Some observations about zero” (with Andreas Haida). Semantikzirkel, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 10/9/2018. [Handout]
2018. “A case for no Ks” (with Andreas Haida). Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Barcelona, 6/9/2018. [Poster]
2018. “Questioning and time” (with Andreas Haida). Workshop on Meanings in Non-Canonical Questions, Konstanz, 7/6/2018. [Slides]
2018. “Quality assurance.” Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, 20/5/2018. [Handout]
2018. “Anteriority and simultaneity in Vietnamese” (with Trang Phan & Dien Dinh). SEALS 28, Kaohsiung, 19/5/2018. [Handout]
2018. “Notes on classifiers in Bahnar, Mandarin, and Vietnamese” (with Trang Phan & Hung Phan). SEALS 28, Kaohsiung, 19/5/2018. [Handout]
2018. “Questioning and time” (with Andreas Haida). GLOW 41, Budapest, 14/4/2018. [Handout]
2018. “In defense of structural implicatures.” Invited talk at National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, 5/1/2018. [Handout]
2017. “Luận lý trị liệu” [“Therapeutic logic”] Invited talk, Đại học Kinh tế Quốc dân [National Economics University], Hà Nội, 24/12/2017. [Slides]
2017. “Một số nhận xét về số từ” [“Notes on numerals”] Hội thảo Khoa học về Cao Xuân Hạo [Workshop on Cao Xuan Hao], TP Hồ Chí Minh, 23/12/2017. [Slides]
2017. “Về sự bình thường của ngôn ngữ học” [“On the normality of linguistics”] Invited talk at Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn, TP Hồ Chí Minh, 22/12/2017. [Slides]
2017. “A note on the substitution source.” Invited talk at the Logic, Language and Cognition Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 16/7/2017. [Handout]
2016. “A plea for (no) monsters” (with Andreas Haida). MIT Workshop on Exhaustivity, 10/9/2016. [Handout]
2016. “Cơ sở luận lý của nghĩa không đen” [“The logical basis of non-literal meaning]. Viện Nghiên cứu Cao cấp về Toán [Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics], Hà Nội, 21/8/2016. [Slides]
2016. “Vài nét về Tối thiểu luận.” Viện Ngôn ngữ học, Hà Nội, 14/8/2016.
2016. “Người đàn ông cao có hạnh phúc không?” Tạp chí Tia Sáng, Hà Nội, 6/8/2016.
2016. “Người đàn ông cao có hạnh phúc không?” Viện Ngôn ngữ học, Hà Nội, 1/8/2016.
2016. “Lượng không đổi và chất không đổi.” Câu lạc bộ Triết học, Hà Nội, 23/7/2016. [Handout]
2016. “On complex adjectival phrases in Standard Arabic” (with Hamid Ouali and Yahya Aldholmi). The 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, 31/3/2016. [Handout][Abstract]
2016. “How to split friends, wives, and boxes of books, in Vietnamese.” Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 5/2/2016. [Handout]
2016. “A note on substitution sources.” Semantikzirkel, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 3/2/2016. [Handout]
2016. “When is not not not.” Semantikzirkel, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 1/2/2016. [Handout]
2015. “On the Modern Vietnamese Script.” University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 14/4/2015. [Slides]
2015. “A multidominance analysis of expletive verbs in Vietnamese.” Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 6/3/2015. [Handout]
2014. “Interpreting expletive negation in Vietnamese.” TEAL 9. Université de Nantes, Nantes, 26/9/2014. [Handout]
2014. “Building alternatives.” (with Andreas Haida). SALT 24. New York University, New York, 30/5/2014. [Abstract]
2014. “On the Evidence Condition of yes/no questions in English.” GLOW 37. University of Leuven, Brussels, 3/4/2014. [Abstract]
2014. “Some constraints on the derivation of alternatives.” (with Andreas Haida). GLOW 37. University of Leuven, Brussels, 2/4/2014. [Poster]
2013. “On the derivation of alternatives.” University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee. 11/10/2013. [Handout]
2013. “Logic và ngôn ngữ.” F-Group, Đại học Kinh tế Quốc dân , Hà Nội, 20/3/2013.
2013. “Some constraints on the derivation of alternatives.” The Language, Logic and Cognition Center. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 23/1/2013. [Handout]
2012. “On the grammar of focus alternatives” (with Andreas Haida). SFB 632 Internal Workshop. Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, 16/11/2012. [Handout]
2012. “Ngôn ngữ học tạo sinh và hàm ngôn thang bậc.” Viện Ngôn ngữ học, Hà Nội, 18/9/2012.
2012. “The syntax of rising declaratives.” Die 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 8/3/2012. [Abstract]
2011. “Một số vấn đề về ngữ pháp tạo sinh.” Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, Hà Nội, 23/12/2011.
2011. “Chain linearization and NP-Split in Vietnamese.” Semantikzirkel, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 04/11/2011. [Abstract]
2010. “Bare nouns and classifier phrases – A comparative analysis.” Sinn und Bedeutung 15. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 10/9/2010. [Abstract]
2010. “On the rise and fall of declaratives.” (with Luka Crnič). Sinn und Bedeutung 15. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 9/9/2010. [Abstract]
2010. “Bias and the performative prefix – A view from Vietnamese.” SEALS 20. Universität Zürich, Zürich, 11/6/2010. [Abstract]
2009. “Constraining Copy Deletion.” Colloque international sur les langues d’Asie du Sud-est. Université Paris Diderot, Paris, 17/12/2009. [Handout]
2009. “Constraining Copy Deletion.” Linguistics of Vietnamese, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 6/7/2009. [Handout]
2009. “A constraint on Copy Deletion.” Syntaxkolloquium, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, 16/6/2009. [Handout]
2009. “The Indefiniteness Effect in Mandarin and Vietnamese.” (with Yasutada Sudo). Languages of South East Asia. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 31/1/2009. [Handout]
2009. “The Indefiniteness Effect in Mandarin and Vietnamese.” (with Yasutada Sudo). Semantikzirkel, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 26/1/2009. [Handout]
2008. “Embedding Imperatives.” (with Luka Crnič). NELS 39. Cornell University, Ithaca, 9/11/2008. [Abstract]
2008. “Embedding Imperatives in English.” (with Luka Crnič). International Conference on Quotation and Meaning (ICQM). Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 18/10/2008. [Handout]
2008. “Embedding Imperatives in English.” (with Luka Crnič). Sinn und Bedeutung 13. Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 1/10/2008. [Abstract]
2007. “Towards an Analysis of Transitive Resultatives.” The Maryland-MIT-Harvard-UMass-UConn Workshop in Formal Linguistics (ECO5). University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 3/3/2007. [Handout]
2004. “Beobachtungen zu Fragen im Vietnamesischen.” Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 6/2/2004. [Handout]