Anh Le

I'm a theoretical linguist interested in the interaction between semantics and syntax (syntax-semantics interface). I focus on the grammars of the languages situating on the further analytic end of the analytic-synthetic spectrum, especially Mainland South East Asian (MSEA) languages. In particular, I am intrigued by the very creation of different grammatical categories that seems to be from the perspective of accommodating overt grammatical morphemes thus overlooking the prevalent covert pattern of grammatical marking in highly analytic languages. My PhD thesis is a functional account of the categorisation of time-marking particles in Vietnamese, in which I argue that these words are discourse particles of sequentiality but have been fallaciously analysed as morphosyntactic markers of Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM).

AKA/Common Misspellings: Quang Anh Le, Ahn Le, Ahn Lee, Quang Lee, Allan Le, Allan Lee, Alain Lee

Research Interests include:

• Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM)
• MSEA languages, analytic (isolating) languages
• Syntax-semantics interface
• Grammaticalization theory
• Spatial and temporal systems of deixis
• Particles, discourse particles
• Quantitative methods in text narrative
• Semiotics, History of linguistics