Education
- Ph.D., Linguistics
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - M.A. Applied Linguistics
Biola University, La Mirada, CA - B.A. Comparative Literature, summa cum laude
University of California, Los Angeles
Conference presentations
Truong, Christina L. 2024. The rise of applicatives in West Nusantara. The 16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL16). De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 22 June. Slides.
Truong, Christina L. 2023. Valency and argumenthood in Sundanese applicative constructions. The 9th International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ 9). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, 20 May.
Truong, Christina L. & Bradley McDonnell. 2022. Lexical semantics and the constructional meaning of Western Indonesian applicatives. 14th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages & Linguistics Conference (APLL 14). Leibniz Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) & Humboldt University, Berlin,
Germany, 9-11 June. https://sites.google.com/view/apll14-conference/conference-programme
Truong, Christina L. 2022. Semantic meaning and the lexical representation of Indonesian applicative constructions. 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 31). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, 18-20 May.
Truong, Christina L. & Bradley McDonnell. 2021. Exploring western Indonesian applicative constructions through the lexicon. 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL15). Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 28 June – 2 July.
Truong, Christina L. & Bradley McDonnell. 2020. Applicative Morphology: Semantic and syntactic functions of western Indonesian applicative morphology. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 2020 Platform. 26 Aug-1 Sep. https://osf.io/kxd3b/.
Truong, Christina L. 2020. How does vowel harmony develop? Evidence from Behoa, a language of Indonesia. The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, LA, 2-5 January. https://www.linguisticsociety.org/abstract/how-does-vowel-harmony-develop-evidence-behoa-language-indonesia.
Publications
Truong, Christina L. Forthcoming. Discourse topic in Austronesian languages. In Yoder, Brendon (eds.). Topic in Discourse: Areal Overviews and Case Studies. Dallas: SIL International.
McDonnell, Bradley & Christina L. Truong. Forthcoming. The non-Malayic languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. In Alexander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper (eds.). The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia (Oxford Guides to the Worldʻs Languages). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Publisher link.
Truong, Christina L. 2024. Western Austronesian applicative constructions: Functional and typological approaches. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Ph.D. dissertation. Link.
McDonnell, Bradley & Christina L. Truong. 2024. Applicative constructions in languages of western Indonesia. In Zúñiga, Fernando and Denis Creissels (eds.), Applicative constructions in the world’s languages (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics). Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Publisher link.
Surma, Asleigh & Christina L. Truong. Forthcoming, August 2023. Digital tools for language revitalization. In Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun and Keren Rice (eds.), The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America. A Comprehensive Guide, Vol. 1 (The World of Linguistics). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Publisher link.
Truong, Christina L. & Bradley McDonnell. 2022. Neglected functions of western Indonesian applicative morphology. In Sara Pachhiarotta and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), Applicative morphology: Neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions (Trends in Linguistics 373), 405-436. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777949.
Mead, David and Christina L. Truong. 2021. Survey of Cia-Cia and closely related languages of Southern Buton Island, Indonesia. Sulang Language Data and Working Papers: Survey Reports. 3. http://sulang.org/sites/default/files/sulangsurv003-v1.pdf
Truong, Christina L. and Lilian Garcez. 2012. Participatory methods for language documentation and conservation: Building community awareness and engagement. Language Documentation & Conservation. 6:22-37. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4505.
Truong, Christina L. and Lilian Garcez. 2012. Participatory methods for language documentation and conservation: Building community awareness and engagement. Language Documentation and Conservation. 6:22-37. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4504.
Teaching
Awarded The Hannah Liebreich Merit Based Award for exemplary teaching. Graduate Student Organization, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 2021.
Instructor of record. Linguistics 150C: Language in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Summer 2021.
Instructor of record. Linguistics 451: Phonology I. University of North Dakota. Summer 2012, 2014, 2018.
Teaching assistant. Linguistics 102: Introduction to Study of Language. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018.
Teaching assistant. Linguistics 105: Language Endangerment, Globalization, and Indigenous Peoples. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018.
Teaching assistant. Linguistics 150B: Language in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018.