Interdisciplinary perspectives on Vietnamese linguistics / edited by Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan, Tue Trinh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffield, Nigel.

Contributor:

Duffield, Nigel, editor.

Phan, Trang, editor.

Trinh, Tue, editor.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion Series ; 211

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese language--Congresses.

Vietnamese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân HaP3;o, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book offers the reader a closely edited collection of papers, representing a wide spectrum of frameworks, approaches and methods, from traditional fieldwork studies of non-standard dialects, to corpus-based discussions of language and gender, to formal syntactic and semantic analyses of key functional morphemes, to laboratory experiments, and work in first language acquisition. Many of the papers present detailed analyses of original data, as well as novel treatments of established facts; considered together – as well as in contrast to one another – they make a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of how Vietnamese is structured, acquired and put to use. The papers should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary approaches to Vietnamese linguistics, and Southeast Asian languages more generally.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section A. Phonetics and phonology

Chapter 2. Intonation in southern Vietnamese interrogative sentences

Chapter 3. Vietnamese dialects

Section B. Morphology and syntax

Chapter 4. A more perfect unification

Chapter 5. Illusory islands

Section C. Semantics

Chapter 6. Temporal reference in Vietnamese

Chapter 7. Semantics of Vietnamese đã

Chapter 8. (In)definiteness of Vietnamese noun phrases

Chapter 9. Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh- indefinites in Vietnamese

Section D. Language aquisition and use

Chapter 10. Vietnamese children’s interpretation of definite noun phrases

Chapter 11. Interpretation of numerals under memory load by Vietnamese speakers

Chapter 12. Gender in Vietnamese

Chapter 13. Effects of grammatical roles and parallelism on referential form production in Vietnamese spoken and written narratives

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027261991

9027261997