EVEN, ALSO and ONLY in Vietnamese
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Daniel Hole |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22171 |
ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 (11) |
Herausgeber*in(nen): | Shinichiro Ishihara, Svetlana Petrova, Anne Schwarz |
Publikationstyp: | Monographie/Sammelband |
Sprache: | Deutsch |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 07.10.2008 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Chinese; Vietnamese; background particles; clefts; focus particles; free-choice |
RVK - Regensburger Verbundklassifikation: | ER 300 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlung(en): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 |
Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |