Linguistics of Vietnamese : : An International Survey / / ed. by Elisabeth Löbel, Daniel Hole.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bruening, Benjamin,; Brunelle, Marc,; Duffield, Nigel,; Hanske, Theresa,; Hole, Daniel,; Jannedy, Stefanie,; Paris, Marie-Claude,; Phương, Hạ Kiều,; Simpson, Andrew,; Thuan, Tran,; Tran, Jennie,; Tâm, Hồ Hảo,; Tưởng, Nguyễn Hùng,; Xuyến, Lê Thị,
• HerausgeberIn: Hole, Daniel,; Löbel, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 253
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)

The present collection of articles grew out of a workshop on Vietnamese linguistics in 2009 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. To our knowledge, no workshop with a comparable scope has been held outside of Vietnam for the past 20 years, or even longer. Given the important typological status of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Table of contents
• 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 change of location constructions in Vietnamese
• IV. Pronouns and minor word classes
• 8. Wh-phrases as indefinites: A Vietnamese perspective
• 9. On conjunction and comitativity in Vietnamese
• 10. Focus particles and related entities in Vietnamese
• Index