Thanh Viet Cao
/tʰɛŋᴬ² viətᴰ² kaːwᴬ¹/

Publications

1. Thanh Viet Cao (2026), Sino-Vietnamese linguistic early contact and the three-stage hypothesis, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 24(1):103-155. (Download here)
2. Thanh Viet Cao (2025), Quantification and Plurality at the Interface: the case of Vietnamese, PhD Dissertation, National Tsing Hua University. (Download here)
3. McGuire, Paul, Kye Shibata, Thanh Viet Cao, Feng-fan Hsieh, and Yueh-chin Chang (2025), Supralaryngeal Kinematics of Implosives in Central Vietnamese: An EMA Study, Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. (Download here)
4. Thanh Viet Cao (2025), Early Sino-Vietnamese sub-layers and a constraint against final *-s in Proto-Vietic, JSEALS Special Publication 13:190–197. (Download here)
5. Thanh Viet Cao (2021), Preliminary Remarks on Syntactic Structures of Vietnamese Purposives, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Vietnamese Studies (ICVNS 2021), Hanoi.
6. Cao Thành Việt (2020), Huyền thoại Babel và chính sách ngôn ngữ trong thế kỉ 21 [The myth of the Towel of Babel and language policies in the 21st century], Journal of Nghe An Culture (404+405), pp. 60-63. ISSN 2354-0869.
7. Cao Thành Việt (2016), Vấn đề Đối xứng và Lý thuyết Hàm ngôn (trên tư liệu tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt) [The Symmetry Problem and Theories of Implicatures (in English and Vietnamese)], Master’s Thesis, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU-Hanoi. (Download here)
8. Cao Thành Việt (2016), ‘Ngữ năng’ - ‘ngữ hành’ và sự cách tân của ngữ pháp tạo sinh [‘Competence’ - ‘Performance’ and innovations of generative grammar], in Proceedings of International Conference on Research and Teaching Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Issues, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Presentations

1. Thanh Viet Cao (2026), Vietnamese plural markers các-những and the homogeneity effects, Paper presented (online) at the 6th annual meeting of International Symposium of Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL 6), 26-27 February 2026, Venice, Italy. (Download handout here)
2. Thanh Viet Cao (2025), Explaining a gap in wh-quantification involving Vietnamese cũng, Paper presented at 2025 NTHU Linguistics Forum: Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Download handout here)
3. Thanh Viet Cao (2024), Early Sino-Vietnamese sub-layers and a constraint against final *-s in Proto-Vietic, Paper presented at SEALS 33, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Download slides here)
4. Viet Cao (2023), Interpreting two types of cũng-constructions in Vietnamese, Poster presented at TEAL-13, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Download here)
5. Tue Trinh & Viet Cao (2023), A note on NPI licensing in Vietnamese, Poster presented at TEAL-13, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Download here)
6. Thanh Viet Cao (2022), Vietnamese plural markers các - những and beyond, Presentation at Tsing Hua Students Workshop on Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
7. Thanh Viet Cao (2022), Lexical-phonological patterns of Tai loans in Vietnamese: Diagnoses and implications, Presentation at Historical Relationships of East and Southeast Asian Languages (HRESAL 2022) Conference (online), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Download slides here)
8. Thanh Viet Cao (2022), Reanalyzing Vietnamese plural markers các - những, Paper (online) presented at International Semantics Conference - InSemantiC 2022, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.