I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Research on the Languages and Cultures of Taiwan and Vietnam, Faculty of Ethnolinguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. My name is pronounced /ʈə̆n˨˩ fan˧/. I go by Phan Ngọc Trần in my home country, and 潘玉陳 in the Chinese-speaking world.
My current (narrow) research interests include non-canonical wh-interrogatives, mood and modal projections, negation, scalarity and additivity, finiteness distinctions, similative and associative plurality, grammaticalization, and Old Vietnamese, among others.
Updates
- Talk on finiteness & assertivity in complementizers in Chinese & Vietnamese. EACL-13 (Paris-Aubervilliers), 2-4/9/2026; w/ Roger Liao
- Talk on Vietnamese CECs. ISVL-6 (U of Venice), 27/2/2026; w/ Alex Wimmer & Daniel Hole
- Colloquium talk Mandarin shì & Vietnamese là as complemetizers. ChiLL (Leiden U), 18/2/2026; w/ Roger Liao
- Article on Vietnamese reflexive mình published in Language and Linguistics (2/11/2025)
- Article on the catography of Vietnamese đâu published in Journal of East Asian Linguistics (15/2/2025)
- Colloquium talk on scalar evens in Vietnamese & Chinese. Joint Research Colloquium in Linguistics (U of Stuttgart), 19/1/2025
- Talk on Vietnamese há & Chinese qǐ. ISVL-3 (Konan U, Kobe); w/ Barbara Meisterernst, 3/2023
- Talk on the grammaticalization of Vietnamese (một) cái. SEALS 31 (U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), 5/2022
