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Keywords: classifiers, Bahnar, Mandarin, Vietnamese
Published in RUNG: 14.01.2025; Views: 449; Downloads: 2
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Abstract: This note presents a set of facts concerning nominal structures in Bahnar, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. It proposes an account of these facts which reduces them to cross-linguistic differences with respect to the availability of particular syntactic configurations involving the bare nouns and its extended projection. These differences, in turn, are derived from cross linguistic variations with respect to the availability of items in the functional lexicon.
Keywords: classifiers, demonstratives, argumenthood, definiteness
Published in RUNG: 09.01.2025; Views: 416; Downloads: 4
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Abstract: Polar questions in Vietnamese consist of an affirmative sentence followed by a negation particle. Modern Vietnamese has three negation particles, but only two can occur in this function. This note proposes an account for this gap. The account is premised on the analysis of questions as sets of alternatives, and draws on facts of diachronic change gleaned from historical texts.
Keywords: polar questions, negation, Vietnamese
Published in RUNG: 08.01.2025; Views: 489; Downloads: 2
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