Linguistics

I am a Linguistics PhD student at the University of Chicago. My primary focus is theoretical morphosyntax and morphosemantics, though I have been increasingly interested in looking at these phenomena from a variation perspective.

 

Currently, I am working on the emergence of new classifiers from class term compounds in Vietnamese, and how variation data can help us understand about speaker’s grammaticalization strategies. I have previously worked on locality domains of (idiosyncratic) meaning and category assignment in Modern Hebrew blends.

 

Papers

2011. “Idiomatic Root Merge in Modern Hebrew blends“. Proceedings of the Arizona Linguistics Circle 4, Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics 18.1: Linguistics Circle, Tucson.

 

Talks

  • “Class(ifier) mobility: emergence of classifiers from compounds”. 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Boston (January 2013).
  • “Category-free classification in Vietnamese compounds”. 17th LIPP Symposium on Parts of Speech across Languages, in Acquisition, Mind and Brain; Munich, Germany (July 2012).
  • “Idiomatic Root Merge in Modern Hebrew blends.” 4th Arizona Linguistics Circle Conference; University of Arizona, Tucson (October 2010).

Contact

 

 

email: mike.tt.pham [at] gmail [dot] com

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