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).

Trang Phan 是威尼斯卡福斯卡里大學的助理教授。Phan 博士於 2013 年在英國謝菲爾德大學完成博士學位，研究重點為越南語動詞體的結構與習得。隨後，她在比利時根特大學的地圖語法專案中擔任博士後研究員，從跨語言的角度探討越南語子句結構的各個方面。從 2020 年到 2021 年，Phan 博士擔任哈佛燕京學院的訪問學者，進行有關越南名詞在更新我們對分類語言的理解中的角色的研究。她在多本知名語言學期刊和出版社上發表了大量文章，並共同編輯了約翰·本傑明斯出版社於 2019 年出版的《越南語言學的跨學科視角》一書，以及 2022 年由夏威夷大學出版社出版的《東南亞語言學會期刊》特刊《越南語言學：領域現狀》。她是 2023 年由 Routledge 出版的專著《越南語的時態、體和否定的句法》的作者。

Tuan-Cuong Nguyen 是越南漢學的高級研究員及副教授。他目前擔任越南社會科學院（VASS）下的漢字研究所所長，並在越南國立大學 - 河內（VNU）擔任漢學兼任教授。在其豐碩的學術生涯中，Nguyen 發表了近 100 篇以越南語、英語、中文和日語撰寫的期刊文章和會議論文，對學術界做出了重要貢獻。此外，Nguyen 還撰寫和合著了多本越南語書籍，包括《越南名字書的結構：延續與變異》（河內：國立大學 - 河內出版社，2012）和《儒家初等教育：<三字經>與越南的識字》（河內：社會科學出版社，2020）。除了越南語出版物外，Nguyen 還共同編輯了三本中文書籍，分別是：《東亞漢字文本與越南古典詞典研究》（北京：中國社會科學出版社，2017）、《越南古典文本與東亞漢字研究》（北京：中國社會科學出版社，2019）和《越南漢學的新視角》（台北：學生書局，2023）。

Masaaki Shimizu 是日本大阪大學人文學研究所外國研究部的越南研究教授。他目前在同一部門擔任副主席。Shimizu 的學術貢獻涵蓋多樣的作品，包括收錄於《中國語言與語言學百科全書》（BRILL，2017）的《中文與越南文》，以及收錄於《亞洲語言學圖譜》（Hituzi Syobo，2021）中的幾篇有關南亞語系語言的文章。他還共同撰寫了幾本日文書籍，如《越南語法》（亞洲與非洲語言文化研究所，2022）、《漢字形式的研究：字形創造原則》（角川書店，2022）和《漢字學入門》（日本漢字能力檢定協會，2018）。