Tran Truong is a theoretical morphosyntactician who works on Japanese. He is broadly interested in the discrepancy between constraints on cognition and constraints on linguistic form, especially in the context of pronouns, honorifics, and kinship terms. At Penn State, he teaches undergraduate courses on syntax, morphology, historical linguistics, and signed languages, as well as graduate courses on linguistic diversity and human-computer interaction. He has supervised undergraduate research on syncretism, language & religion, language & politics, and the experiences of signers in medical settings.
Tran Truong is a theoretical morphosyntactician who works on Japanese. He is broadly interested in the discrepancy between constraints on cognition and constraints on linguistic form, especially in the context of pronouns, honorifics, and kinship terms. At Penn State, he teaches undergraduate courses on syntax, morphology, historical linguistics, and signed languages, as well as graduate courses on linguistic diversity and human-computer interaction. He has supervised undergraduate research on syncretism, language & religion, language & politics, and the experiences of signers in medical settings.