2026 – Copula complementizers in Chinese and Vietnamese. At 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-15). Chinese U of Hong Kong, Jun. 5-6; w/ Roger Liao.
2025 – Beyond the question: Deriving denial and disapproval in Vietnamese non-canonical interrogatives. At 6th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC6). Chinese U of Hong Kong, Oct. 31-Nov. 1; w/ Dylan Tsai.
2025 – On applicative constructions in Vietnamese and some Southern Chinese varieties. At 13th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 13). Oct. 29-31; w/ Xin-Tian Lau & Dylan Tsai [Online]
2025 – Passive in early Vietnamese grammars: A critical review. At 12th Int'l Conference on Missionary Linguistics: Linguistic Encounters between Europe and Asia (ICML-12). NTHU, Mar. 28-30.
2025 – On the scales of EVENs: A view from Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese. At 14th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-14). U of Southern California, Mar. 18-20; w/ Roger Liao.
2025 – Locative wh as negation in Vietnamese. At 14th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-14). U of Southern California, Mar. 18-20; w/ Dylan Tsai.
2024 – On three particle uses of verb-based đi in Vietnamese. At 12th Int'l Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL12). Payap U, Oct. 23-25. [Online]
2024 – Disentangling scalarity from additivity: the many EVEN’s of Vietnamese. At 33rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 33). NTHU, Jun. 15-17; w/ Roger Liao.
2024 – Two types of scalar EVEN: evidence from Vietnamese. At 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV). Chinese U of Hong Kong, Mar. 6-8; w/ Roger Liao.
2023 – Every 'where' all at once: Vietnamese đâu from a comparative perspective. At 5th Int'l Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC 2023). Beijing Language & Culture U, Oct. 29-30; w/ Dylan Tsai.
2023 – Vietnamese bare reflexive and the blocking effect. At Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 13 (TEAL-13). NTNU, May 12-14; w/ Tim Chou. [Poster]
2022 – (Một) cái: a case of grammaticalization in Vietnamese. At 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 31). U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 18-20.
2015 – Tiếng Việt như ngôn ngữ di sản: bước đầu tìm hiểu một số đặc điểm ngôn ngữ của người Mỹ gốc Việt [Vietnamese as a Heritage Language: a Preliminary Study on Linguistic Characteristics of Vietnamese Americans]. At Int'l Conference on ‘The Linguistics of Vietnam - 30 years of Renovation and Development’. Hanoi, Aug. 23.
Invited colloquium talks & presentations
2026 – Mandarin shì and Vietnamese là: A tale of two complementizers. Lecture at Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL). Leiden University, Feb. 18; w/ Roger Liao.
2025 – Canonical and non-canonical why-expressions in Vietnamese. At 2025 NTHU Linguistics Forum: Workshop on Syntax and Semantics. NTHU, May 12.
2025 – Scalar EVENs in Vietnamese and Chinese. Colloquium talk at the Joint Research Colloquium in Linguistics. Institute of Linguistics, U of Stuttgart. Jan. 21.
2024 – The scales of EVEN: A comparative study of Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese. At 13th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan. NTHU, Oct. 19; w/ Roger Liao.
2024 – Vietnamese mình: Attitudes, empathy and the blocking effect. At 15th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics (FOSS-15). NTNU, Oct. 12-13; with Tim Chou.
2023 – Traversing the ‘where’ landscape: Vietnamese đâu beyond location. At Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Austronesian and Southeast Asian Languages (2023 NTHU Linguistics Forum). NTHU, 11/11; w/ Dylan Tsai.
Non-refereed presentations
2026 – Vietnamese cho beyond ‘give’: Word-order Change and Grammaticalization. At Mapping Word Order: A Cartographic Perspective on Syntax. Beijing Language & Culture U, Mar. 26-29. [Online]
2026 – Conditional evaluative constructions in Vietnamese. At 2026 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-6). Ca' Foscari U of Venice, Feb. 26-27; w/h Alex Wimmer & Daniel Hole.
2026 – Applicative constructions as further evidence for a Greater Mainland Southeast Asian Sprachbund? At 2026 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-6). Ca' Foscari U of Venice, Feb. 26-27; w/ Xin Tian Lau & Dylan Tsai.
2026 – From rhetorical attitude to high negative polarity: The diachronic syntax of Vietnamese há and nào. At 2026 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-6). Ca' Foscari U of Venice, Feb. 26-27; w/ Barbara Meisterernst.
2026 – Similative plurality in Vietnamese and its typological implications. At 2026 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-6). Ca' Foscari U of Venice, Feb. 26-27; w/ Tim Chou.
2025 – Marking finiteness with Vietnamese complementizer là. At International Roundtable on Comparative Syntax. NTHU, Oct. 19.
2025 – On modal uses of tense markers in Vietnamese. At 2025 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-5). Ca' Foscari U of Venice, Jan. 30-31; with Dylan Tsai.
2025 – Vietnamese há and Chinese qǐ in rhetorical questions: a diachronic syntax perspective. At 2025 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-5). Ca' Foscari U of Venice, Jan. 30-31; w/ Barbara Meisterernst.
2024 – In search of reason, cause, and purpose: Why-expressions in Vietnamese. At 2024 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-4). NYCU, Mar. 16-17; w/ Dylan Tsai.
2024 – Locative inversion in Vietnamese. At 2024 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-4). NYCU, Mar. 16-17; w/ Tim Chou.
2023 – Vietnamese modal ĐƯỢC is only dynamic postverbally. At 2023 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-3). Konan U, Mar. 17-19; w/ Barbara Meisterernst.
2023 – On the non-canonical uses of Vietnamese ĐÂU. At 2023 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-3). Konan U, Mar. 17-19; w/ Dylan Tsai.
2022 – The syntax and semantics of Vietnamese modal được: a diachronic and comparative account. At 2022 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-2). Konan U, Mar. 19-20; w/ Barbara Meisterernst. [Online]
2022 – On Vietnamese flip-flop constructions: a comparative perspective. At 2022 Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-2). Konan U, Mar. 19-20; w/ Dylan Tsai. [Online]
2021 – An antisymmetry approach to post-nominal modification in Vietnamese. At Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics, Typology and Language Universals. Harvard-Yenching Institute, Apr. 16-17; w/ Yi-Ling Liao & Jonah Lin. [Online]
2021 – Non-canonical what-questions in Vietnamese. At Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics, Typology and Language Universals. Harvard-Yenching Institute, Apr. 16-17; w/ Dylan Tsai. [Online]
Guest lectures
2025 – The Syntax of How-expressions in Old Vietnamese: A Diachronic Comparative Approach. At Seminar on Comparative Syntactic Studies of Modern and Classical Chinese. Institute of Linguistics, NTHU, Dec. 3.
2025 – Comparative Syntax. At Syntax II. Institute of Linguistics, NTHU, Apr. 30.