Grainger Lanneau

From: John D. Phan via Vsg <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2025 1:12 PM
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Vsg] Congratulations to Grainger Lanneau; New Dissertation in linguistics

Dear VSG colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating Grainger Lanneau, who just completed his dissertation on Sino-Vietnamese initials at the University of Washington, supervised by Professor Zev Handel. Perhaps the greatest weakness in my own work on the history of Sino-Vietnamese phonology is that it does not address the critical role of the Kra-Dai languages in the development of Vietnamese. Mr. Lanneau's dissertation addresses exactly this lacuna, and focuses on what he calls the "trilingual environment" of Vietnamese phonological development. 

You can access his full dissertation here. I have only begun to read this important work, and am already deeply impressed.

Congratulations Grainger!

Sincerely, John

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John D. Phan, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

Associate Professor of Vietnamese Humanities

Co-Founder, Vietnamese Studies at Columbia University

Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Columbia University

New York, New York 10027

212-854-5744