Tham Truong
Biographic Data
| ID | 352718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tham Truong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tham |
| FAMILY NAME | Truong |
| SIGNATURE | TRUONG T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1340-134X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Countercultural normalcy: The discursive production of male Catholic identity on campus
We build on Muwwakkil's work on the ethnography of campus conservatives and Kiesling's work on the sociolinguistic repertoires of fraternity men in this work of longitudinal, multimodal ethnography. From January 2025 to March 2026, we conducted two sociolinguistic interviews with a male Catholic student activist and member of the Newman Catholic Student Association at the Pennsylvania State University and shadowed him in a variety of discursive c…
First-gen in the classroom: Teaching by and for first-generation scholars in higher education
First-generation scholars are individuals who are the first in their family to attend a four-year college or university. In response to affirmative action bans, admissions committees have begun to use first-generation status as a way to promote a diverse student body, leading to an increase in the number of first generation students. Within the sociology of education, first-generation scholars are typically discussed from a deficit-based perspect…
Advocating navigating in the (non-)Academic landscape
In recent years, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) has reinforced its commitment not only to serve as a venue for the dissemination of current research, but also as a site of professionalization and capacity building for linguists of a variety of career interests and trajectories. This paper represents a collaboration between two bodies within the LSA: the First-Generation Access and Equity Committee and the Linguistics Beyond Academia Spec…
Identifying, understanding, and supporting diverse first-generation scholars in linguistics
One in three college graduates is in the first generation of their family to complete a bachelor’s degree (NCES 2016), including 27% of doctoral students (CGS 2022) and 28% of tenure-track faculty (Morgan et al. 2022). Although there exists ample diversity of perspective and experience among first-generation students, relative to continuing-generation students, they are more likely to work full-time, care for dependents, and/or contribute to the …
Kincretism in crosslinguistic perspective
Traditional anthropology in the vein of Morgan (1871) distinguishes between descriptive and classificatory kinship terms. Mainstream US English father functions as a descriptive term, as it conventionally only indicates one relationship type: `'ego's begetter'. In contrast, Aboriginal English father functions as a classificatory term, as it conventionally indicates both 'ego's begetter' and `'ego's begetter's brother'. We propose that it is possi…
Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education
Research Article| May 01 2024 Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education Jessica Kantarovich; Jessica Kantarovich Ohio State University jessica kantarovich is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Linguistics. She is a field-worker who specializes in language variation and change in situations of multilingualism, especially among minoritized speakers of Indigenous languages of…
ABA pronominal stem allomorphy without containment
ABA environments are pockets of morphology that prohibit noncontiguous suppletion, and which show promise to generativists as a diagnostic for the presence of syntactic hierarchical structure. In particular, it identifies Lower Arrernte (Pama-Nyungan) nonsingular pronouns as an AAB-permissive *ABA environment. Morphological contiguity in Lower Arrernte results from the manner in which kintactic features expressing kinship generation and shared pa…
Reconciling underspecification with the overlapping decomposition
Natural language grammar contains pockets of linear morphological contiguity, in which formal identity between non-contiguous categories is either unattested or extremely rare. Also called *ABA domains, the analysis of these etiologically heterogeneous patterns has been a fruitful site of cross-theoretic discourse. Following Caha (2017), surface *ABA distributions may be classified as resulting from one of at least two morphosyntactic decompositi…
ABA effects in kinship allomorphy & syncretism
Morphological contiguity domains are pockets of natural language grammar wherein formal irregularity in one component predicts co-irregularity in a related, and often more marked, component. At the surface level, they foreclose certain allomorphic and/or distributional possibilities, producing so-called *ABA effects. Contiguity phenomena have been documented in the study of comparatives, case, pronouns, tense/aspect, inter multa alia. To this exp…
Community Action Work Among the Vietnamese
Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education
Research Article| May 01 2024 Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education Jessica Kantarovich; Jessica Kantarovich Ohio State University jessica kantarovich is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Linguistics. She is a field-worker who specializes in language variation and change in situations of multilingualism, especially among minoritized speakers of Indigenous languages of…
Community Action Work Among the Vietnamese
ABA effects in kinship allomorphy & syncretism
Morphological contiguity domains are pockets of natural language grammar wherein formal irregularity in one component predicts co-irregularity in a related, and often more marked, component. At the surface level, they foreclose certain allomorphic and/or distributional possibilities, producing so-called *ABA effects. Contiguity phenomena have been documented in the study of comparatives, case, pronouns, tense/aspect, inter multa alia. To this exp…
Reconciling underspecification with the overlapping decomposition
Natural language grammar contains pockets of linear morphological contiguity, in which formal identity between non-contiguous categories is either unattested or extremely rare. Also called *ABA domains, the analysis of these etiologically heterogeneous patterns has been a fruitful site of cross-theoretic discourse. Following Caha (2017), surface *ABA distributions may be classified as resulting from one of at least two morphosyntactic decompositi…
ABA pronominal stem allomorphy without containment
ABA environments are pockets of morphology that prohibit noncontiguous suppletion, and which show promise to generativists as a diagnostic for the presence of syntactic hierarchical structure. In particular, it identifies Lower Arrernte (Pama-Nyungan) nonsingular pronouns as an AAB-permissive *ABA environment. Morphological contiguity in Lower Arrernte results from the manner in which kintactic features expressing kinship generation and shared pa…
Identifying, understanding, and supporting diverse first-generation scholars in linguistics
One in three college graduates is in the first generation of their family to complete a bachelor’s degree (NCES 2016), including 27% of doctoral students (CGS 2022) and 28% of tenure-track faculty (Morgan et al. 2022). Although there exists ample diversity of perspective and experience among first-generation students, relative to continuing-generation students, they are more likely to work full-time, care for dependents, and/or contribute to the …
Kincretism in crosslinguistic perspective
Traditional anthropology in the vein of Morgan (1871) distinguishes between descriptive and classificatory kinship terms. Mainstream US English father functions as a descriptive term, as it conventionally only indicates one relationship type: `'ego's begetter'. In contrast, Aboriginal English father functions as a classificatory term, as it conventionally indicates both 'ego's begetter' and `'ego's begetter's brother'. We propose that it is possi…
Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education
Research Article| May 01 2024 Centering Heritage Speaker Perspectives in Undergraduate Linguistics Education Jessica Kantarovich; Jessica Kantarovich Ohio State University jessica kantarovich is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Linguistics. She is a field-worker who specializes in language variation and change in situations of multilingualism, especially among minoritized speakers of Indigenous languages of…
Advocating navigating in the (non-)Academic landscape
In recent years, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) has reinforced its commitment not only to serve as a venue for the dissemination of current research, but also as a site of professionalization and capacity building for linguists of a variety of career interests and trajectories. This paper represents a collaboration between two bodies within the LSA: the First-Generation Access and Equity Committee and the Linguistics Beyond Academia Spec…
Countercultural normalcy: The discursive production of male Catholic identity on campus
We build on Muwwakkil's work on the ethnography of campus conservatives and Kiesling's work on the sociolinguistic repertoires of fraternity men in this work of longitudinal, multimodal ethnography. From January 2025 to March 2026, we conducted two sociolinguistic interviews with a male Catholic student activist and member of the Newman Catholic Student Association at the Pennsylvania State University and shadowed him in a variety of discursive c…
First-gen in the classroom: Teaching by and for first-generation scholars in higher education
First-generation scholars are individuals who are the first in their family to attend a four-year college or university. In response to affirmative action bans, admissions committees have begun to use first-generation status as a way to promote a diverse student body, leading to an increase in the number of first generation students. Within the sociology of education, first-generation scholars are typically discussed from a deficit-based perspect…
Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Applied linguistics (3 works) · Contiguity (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Allomorph (2 works)