THT

Presentations

Upcoming

  • 2023. “Distinguishing the false from the fictional.” Comparative Literature in South East Asia: History, Theory, and Practice, 14/12/2023, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • 2023. “Asking about asking (about asking): Revisiting the Performative Hypothesis.” SLE 56, 29/08–01/09/2023, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  • 2023. “Of pictures and trivialities.” The 44th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 06–12/08/2023, Kirchberg, Austria.
  • 2023. “Logicality and the picture theory of language.” SShAPS, 13–15/07/2023, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2023. “Two arguments for the Performative Hypothesis.” Invited talk, 22/06/2023, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
  • 2023. “The limit on speech act recursion.” Olinco, 09/06/2023, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • 2023. “Trivialities and transformative analysis in the Tractatus.” 30/05/2023, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Past

  • 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.” Third 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. [Abstract] [Slides]
  • 2021. “Remarks on the Vietnamese pronoun system.” ISVL 1. Harvard Yenching Institute, 17/04/2021. [Slides]
  • 2020. “Bipartite exhaustification: Evidence from Vietnamese.” Second 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.” Viện Ngôn ngữ học, 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 Meaning in Non-Canonical Questions, Konstanz, 7/6/2018. [Slides]
  • 2018. “Quality assurance.” Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, 20/5/2018.
  • 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). Generative Linguistics in the Old World 41, Budapest, 14/4/2018. [Handout]
  • 2018. “In defense of the structural approach to implicatures.” National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, 5/1/2018.
  • 2017. “Luận lý trị liệu.” Đại học Kinh tế Quốc dân, Hà Nội, 24/12/2017.
  • 2017. “Một số nhận xét về số từ.” Hội thảo Khoa học về Cao Xuân Hạo, TP Hồ Chí Minh, 23/12/2017. [Slides]
  • 2017. “Về sự bình thường của ngôn ngữ học.” Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn, TP Hồ Chí Minh, 22/12/2017. [Slides]
  • 2017. “A note on the substitution source.” Logic, Language and Cognition Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 16/7/2017. [Handout]
  • 2016. “A plea for (no) monsters” (with Andreas Haida). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 10/9/2016. [Handout]
  • 2016. “Cơ sở luận lý của nghĩa không đen.” Viện Nghiên cứu Cao cấp về Toán, 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.
  • 2016. “On complex adjectival phrases in Standard Arabic” (with Hamid Ouali and Yahya Aldholmi). Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, 31/3/2016. [Handout]
  • 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.” Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 3/2/2016. [Handout]
  • 2016. “When is not not not.” 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.” Theoretical East Asian Linguistics. Université de Nantes, Nantes, 26/9/2014. [Abstract] [Handout]
  • 2014. “Building alternatives.” (with Andreas Haida). Semantics and Linguistic Theory 24. New York University, New York, 30/5/2014. [Abstract]
  • 2014. “On the Evidence Condition of yes/no questions in English.” Generative Linguistics in the Old World 37. University of Leuven, Brussels, 3/4/2014. [Abstract]
  • 2014. “Building alternatives.” (with Andreas Haida). Generative Linguistics in the Old World 37. University of Leuven, Brussels, 2/4/2014.
  • 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. [Handout]
  • 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. [Handout]
  • 2011. “Split NP topicalization in Vietnamese.” Semantikzirkel, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 28/10/2011. [Abstract]
  • 2010. “Bare nouns and classifiers – 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. “Asking with assertions.” The 20th Meeting of the South East Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). 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.
  • 2008. “Embedding Imperatives.” (with Luka Crnič). The 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS). 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]