RESEARCH & PROJECTS

• Vietnamese structure

• Vietnamese child and adult language acquisition

• Vietnamese language teaching

• Vietnamese historical linguistics

(2021-2026): Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind (Collaborator). Funded by the European Research Council, the Synergy Grant.

(2019-2021): Nanosyntax of Vietnamese tense and aspect (Principal Investigator). Funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science & Technology Development (NAFOSTED) grant number 602.02-2018.300.

(2018): Semantico-syntactic behaviours of Vietnamese classifiers in comparison with Chinese (Principal Investigator). Funded by VNU University of Foreign languages & International Studies, grant number N.18.07.

(2014-2016): The Odysseus project (Comparative syntax. Layers of structure and the cartography project (Postdoc researcher). Under the direction of Prof. Liliane Haegeman. Funded by FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders) – Belgium. FWO project 2009-Odysseus-Haegeman-G091409.

(2009-2010): Vietnamese Grammar Project (Research assistant). Under the direction of Prof. Nigel Duffield. Partially funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council – the United Kingdom.