Publications

(If you’re interested in any of my papers, feel free to get in touch with me at ntphan@mx.nthu.edu.tw or visit my ResearchGate page.)

PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS

• Chou, C.-T. Tim & Trần Phan. Vietnamese mình: Attitudes, empathy and the blocking effect. To appear in Language and Linguistics. (SSCI/AHCI, Scopus)

• Phan, Trần & Barbara Meisterernst. Vietnamese post-verbal được: aspectuality, modality, predication, and speaker commitment. To appear in Taiwan Journal of Linguistics. (ESCI, Scopus)

• Phan, Trần & W.-T. Dylan Tsai. 2025. Traversing the “where” landscape: Vietnamese đâu and the clausal architecture of Vietnamese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 34, 59–96. (SSCI/AHCI, Scopus)

• Phan, Trần & C.-T. Tim Chou. 2025. Locative inversion in Vietnamese. Languages 10(3), 50. (ESCI, Scopus)

• Phan, Trần. 2024. Vietnamese modal system of dynamic possibility: a diachronic perspective. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 22(1), 165–196. (ESCI, Scopus)

• Phan, Trần & W.-T. Dylan Tsai. 2024. Verb raising, covert modality and flip-flop constructions in Vietnamese: a comparative perspective. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 22(1), 135–163. (ESCI, Scopus)

• Phan, Trần. 2023. Trinity in unity: asking what, how and why with sao in Vietnamese. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 21(2), 129–175. (ESCI, Scopus)

• Phan, Trần & W.-T. Dylan Tsai. 2022. Surprise-denial/disapproval what-questions in Vietnamese: a comparative perspective. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) Special Publication 9, 168–191. (Scopus)

• Liao, Yi-Ling, Trần Phan & T.-H. Jonah Lin. 2022. An antisymmetry approach to post-nominal modification in Vietnamese. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) Special Publication 9, 212–220. (Scopus)

• Phan, Trần. 2017. Sự tương tác của các ý nghĩa thể và kết cấu vị từ chuỗi chỉ chuyển động có hướng trong cách dùng tiếng Việt của một số người Mỹ gốc Việt [Aspectual interactions and directional serial verb constructions in the use of Vietnamese language by Vietnamese Americans]. Ngôn ngữ [Language] 2 (333), 56–71.

• Phan, Trần. 2014. Về bốn ẩn dụ ý niệm trong thơ Nguyễn Bính [On four conceptual metaphors in Nguyen Binh’s poetry]. Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Journal of Science 63 (97), 34–45.

NON-PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS

• Tsai, W.-T. Dylan & Trần Phan. 2022. On the optionality of verb raising: a view from flip-flop sentences in Chinese and Vietnamese. Nanzan Linguistics 17, 189–202.

• Hoang, Dung & Tran Phan. 2017. Giới tính trong tiếng Việt [Gender in Vietnamese], pp. 73–90. In Cao Xuan Hao and the Linguistics of Vietnam Conference Proceedings. Ho Chi Minh, December 2017.

• Phan, Trần. 2016. Các vấn đề trọng tâm trong Giáo trình Ngôn ngữ học đại cương của Ferdinand de Saussure [Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics: the central issues], pp. 187–191. In Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of the 100th Year of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics. Ho Chi Minh, December.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

• (Not) in search of reason and purpose: Why-expressions in Vietnamese; with Dylan Tsai (NTHU)

• On the scales of EVENs: A view from Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese; with Roger Liao (Academia Sinica/NTHU)

• Similative plurality in Vietnamese; with Tim Chou (NYCU)