Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Section A. Phonetics and phonology
6. Chapter 2. Intonation in southern Vietnamese interrogative sentences 9
7. Chapter 3. Vietnamese dialects 31
8. Section B. Morphology and syntax
9. Chapter 4. A more perfect unification 69
10. Chapter 5. Illusory islands 81
11. Section C. Semantics
12. Chapter 6. Temporal reference in Vietnamese 115
13. Chapter 7. Semantics of Vietnamese đã 141
14. Chapter 8. (In)definiteness of Vietnamese noun phrases 155
15. Chapter 9. Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh- indefinites in Vietnamese 181
16. Section D. Language aquisition and use
17. Chapter 10. Vietnamese children’s interpretation of definite noun phrases 215
18. Chapter 11. Interpretation of numerals under memory load by Vietnamese speakers 241
19. Chapter 12. Gender in Vietnamese 253
20. Chapter 13. Effects of grammatical roles and parallelism on referential form production in Vietnamese spoken and written narratives 275
21. Index 301