Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
Edited by Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] 2019. vii, 304 pp.
Nigel Duffield
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nigel Duffield plays a role.
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Subjects Austro-Asian languages | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019 Chapter 1. Introduction: Vietnamese: A language of special scientific interest? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 5. Illusory islands: On ‘wh-questions in Vietnamese’ Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh (eds.), pp. 81–112 | Chapter
This paper offers an extended critique of an article by Bruening & Tran (2006) concerning wh-questions in Vietnamese. Drawing on both language-internal and cross-linguistic evidence, attention is brought to bear on several empirical shortcomings in Bruening & Tran’s analysis, as a result of which… read more
2019 Chapter 4. A more perfect unification: Exploring a Nano-syntactic solution to Vietnamese đã Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh (eds.), pp. 69–80 | Chapter
In this paper, we provide a new analysis of the Negative Constraint in Vietnamese, whereby the anterior morpheme đã loses its perfect reading in negative contexts. The Nanosyntax approach adopted here is claimed to derive this constraint without the stipulations inherent in existing formal accounts… read more
2003 5. Measures of competent gradience The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition, Hout, Roeland van, Aafke Hulk, Folkert Kuiken and Richard J. Towell (eds.), pp. 97–127 | Chapter