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Department of Comparative Language Science

Workshop: Topics in Vietnamese Linguistics 6th - 8th September 2023

About

This workshop brings together scholars working on various aspects of the Vietnamese language. Our experts will give talks on prosody, serial verbs, linguistic structure, language acquisition, and the practical considerations of fieldwork in Vietnam. Via structured brainstorming sessions at the end of each day, participants will be able to develop research ideas under the guidance of our invited experts and discuss future collaborative work directly with our guests from the University of Languages and International Studies (Vietnam National University, Hanoi). 

Attendance is open to UZH and NCCR-affiliated researchers and students. Students interested in pursuing projects on the Vietnamese language will be awarded 1 ECTS for attending the talks and participating in the brainstorming sessions. For more information on obtaining 1 ECTS, see the Registration form.

Registration

Please register via the external link

Program

Wednesday, 6th September 2023 (KAB-E-03)

9:00

Coffee and welcome

Session 1: Serial verbs

9:30

Specific issues and classification of Vietnamese Serial Verb Constructions

Prof. Dr. Lam Quang Dong (University of Languages and International Studies, VNU Hanoi)

10:20

Vietnamese between grammar and discourse – the perspective from East and mainland Southeast Asian languages

Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)

11:10

Break

11:25

Composing boundaries: Vietnamese serial verb constructions and the electrophysiology of structure planning outside the lab

Alexander Shaw (UZH)

12:00

Lunch

Session 2: Structure

13:30

ONLINE: Hidden Complexity in Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation

Dr. Phan Thi Huyen Trang (University of Languages and International Studies, VNU Hanoi)

14:20

Notes on the pronunciation and interpretation of the IEC morpheme in Vietnamese
Dr. Tue Trinh (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics)

15:10

Coffee break

15:40

Brainstorming session

16:40

Break

17:30

Apéro

 

Workshop dinner for invited guests


 

Thursday, 7th September 2023 (RAI-J-031)

9:00

Coffee and welcome

Session 3: Language Acquisition and Fieldwork

9:30

How do children learn language?: why study Vietnamese

Prof. Dr. Sabine Stoll (UZH)

10:20

Building a corpus of Vietnamese first language acquisition

Miranda Dickerman (UZH)

11:10

Break

11:25

Linguistic field research in Vietnam: practical considerations

Bui Thi Phuong Mai (University of Languages and International Studies, VNU Hanoi)

12:00

Lunch

13:30

Coordinating joint activities in Vietnamese: Universality and acquisition of project markers

Natalia Morozova (UZH)

14:15

Break

Session 4: Prosody

14:30

Monosyllabism and Wordlessness in Vietnamese

Prof. Dr.  Balthasar Bickel (UZH)

15:20

Telling compounds and phrases apart. The role of prosody in Vietnamese perceptual chunking

Dr. Sandrien van Ommen (University of Geneva)

16:10

Coffee break

16:40

Brainstorming session

17:30

Apéro

 

Workshop dinner for invited guests

Venue

The first day of the workshop (September 6, 2023) will be held with on-site presentations in the KAB building of the University of Zurich (Kantonsschulstrasse 3, 8001 Zurich), room KAB-E-03.

The second day of the workshop (September 7, 2023) will be held on-site in the RAI building of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 74, 8001 Zürich), room RAI-J-031.

Support

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support from UZH Graduate Campus (GRC), the NCCR Evolving Language, UZH Hochschulstiftung, and UZH Global Affairs. 

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