Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
Editors
This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, 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.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] 2019. vii, 304 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 October 2019
Published online on 11 October 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Vietnamese: A language of special scientific interest?Nigel Duffield | pp. 1–6
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Section A. Phonetics and phonology
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Chapter 2. Intonation in southern Vietnamese interrogative sentencesPhạm Thị Thu Hà and Marc Brunelle | pp. 9–30
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Chapter 3. Vietnamese dialects: A case of sound change through contactAndrea Hoa Pham | pp. 31–66
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Section B. Morphology and syntax
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Chapter 4. A more perfect unification: Exploring a Nano-syntactic solution to Vietnamese đãTrang Phan and Nigel Duffield | pp. 69–80
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Chapter 5. Illusory islands: On ‘wh-questions in Vietnamese’Nigel Duffield | pp. 81–112
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Section C. Semantics
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Chapter 6. Temporal reference in VietnameseThuy Bui | pp. 115–140
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Chapter 7. Semantics of Vietnamese đãNguyễn Hoàng Trung | pp. 141–154
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Chapter 8. (In)definiteness of Vietnamese noun phrasesQuý Ngọc Thị Đoàn, Martin Everaert and Eric Reuland | pp. 155–180
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Chapter 9. Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh-indefinites in VietnameseCheng-Yu Edwin Tsai and Kim Ngọc Quang | pp. 181–212
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Section D. Language acquisition and use
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Chapter 10. Vietnamese children’s interpretation of definite noun phrasesNi-La Lê, Hannah Forsythe and Cristina Schmitt | pp. 215–240
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Chapter 11. Interpretation of numerals under memory load by Vietnamese speakersAndreas Haida, Tue Trinh and Chi Mai Luong | pp. 241–252
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Chapter 12. Gender in VietnameseDung Hoang and Tran Phan | pp. 253–274
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Chapter 13. Effects of grammatical roles and parallelism on referential form production in Vietnamese spoken and written narrativesBinh Ngo, Elsi Kaiser and Andrew Simpson | pp. 275–300
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Index | pp. 301–304
Cited by (2)
Cited by two other publications
Giorgi, Alessandra & Erika Petrocchi
2024. A cross-cultural analysis of the gestural pattern of surprise and surprise-disapproval questions. Intercultural Pragmatics 21:3 ► pp. 307 ff. 
Caudal, Patrick & James Bednall
2022. Aspectuo-Temporal Underspecification in Anindilyakwa: Descriptive, Theoretical, Typological and Quantitative Issues. Languages 8:1 ► pp. 8 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2GRV: Linguistics/Vietnamese
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General