Tue Trinh

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tue Trinh plays a role.

Title

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics

Edited by Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] 2019. vii, 304 pp.
Subjects Austro-Asian languages | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

In this paper, we present three puzzling observations concerning a class of adjectival constructions in Standard Arabic: (i) pleonastic definiteness, where an instance of definite morphology is semantically transparent, (ii) required resumption, where the absence of a resumptive pronoun leads to… read more
Haida, Andreas, Tue Trinh and Chi Mai Luong 2019 Chapter 11. Interpretation of numerals under memory load by Vietnamese speakersInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, Duffield, Nigel, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh (eds.), pp. 241–252 | Chapter
Numerals show an ambiguity between a weak, ‘at least’ meaning and a strong, ‘exactly’ meaning. The Gricean approach takes the weak meaning to be basic and derives the strong meaning as implicature, thus assimilates numerals to other scalar items. The Fregean approach, in contrast, takes the strong… read more