TY - BOOK A1 - Hole, Daniel A2 - Ishihara, Shinichiro A2 - Petrova, Svetlana A2 - Schwarz, Anne T1 - EVEN, ALSO and ONLY in Vietnamese N2 - The article analyzes the system of focus-sensitive particles and, to a lesser extent, clefts in Vietnamese. EVEN/ALSO/ONLY foci are discussed across syntactic categories, and Vietnamese is found to organize its system of focus-sensitive particles along three dimensions of classification: (i) EVEN vs. ALSO vs. ONLY; (ii) particles c-commanding foci vs. particles c-commanding backgrounds; (iii) adverbial focus-sensitive particles vs. particles c-commanding argument foci only. Towards the end of the paper, free-choice constructions and additional sentence-final particles conveying ONLY and ALSO semantics are briefly discussed. The peculiar Vietnamese system reflects core properties of the analogous empirical domain in Chinese, a known source of borrowings into Vietnamese over the millennia. T3 - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 11 KW - focus particles KW - background particles KW - clefts KW - free-choice KW - Vietnamese KW - Chinese Y1 - 2008 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2122 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22171 SN - 1866-4725 ER -