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.

Metadaten
Author details:	Daniel Hole
URN:	urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22171
ISSN:	1866-4725
Publication series (Volume number):	Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 (11)
Editor(s):	Shinichiro Ishihara, Svetlana Petrova, Anne Schwarz
Publication type:	Monograph/Edited Volume
Language:	German
Publication year:	2008
Publishing institution:	Universität Potsdam
Release date:	2008/10/07
Tag:	Chinese; Vietnamese; background particles; clefts; focus particles; free-choice
RVK - Regensburg classification:	ER 300
Organizational units:	Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik
DDC classification:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Collection(s):	Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725
Institution name at the time of the publication:	Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
License (German):	Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz