Preface; Introduction; I Phonology/Phonetics; 1 The cross-dialectal perception of Vietnamese tones: Indexicality and convergence; 2 Prosodic means in repair initiation as an activity in Northern Vietnamese conversation; II Noun phrase syntax; 3 The Vietnamese noun phrase; 4 Vietnamese classifier phrases from the perspective of how children acquire them; III Clausal and verb phrase syntax; 5 Head-First: On the head-initiality of Vietnamese clauses; 6 Vietnamese and the typology of passive constructions; 7 Serial verbs and caused change of location constructions in Vietnamese.
IV Pronouns and minor word classes8 Wh-phrases as indefinites: A Vietnamese perspective; 9 On conjunction and comitativity in Vietnamese; 10 Focus particles and related entities in Vietnamese; Index.
Summary
This volume, the first of its kind, is an international survey of linguistic research into Vietnamese. Vietnamese, one of the major languages of South East Asia, is considered a particularly interesting case of an isolating language among linguists of different persuasions. Up-to-date information in print about its linguistic system which is both detailed and covers a broad range of topics has been unavailable. The book strives to fill this gap.
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