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Chapter 4. A more perfect unification

Exploring a Nano-syntactic solution to Vietnamese đã
  • Trang Phan and Nigel Duffield
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
This chapter is in the book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a new analysis of the Negative Constraint in Vietnamese, whereby the anterior morpheme đã loses its perfect reading in negative contexts. The Nanosyntax approach adopted here is claimed to derive this constraint without the stipulations inherent in existing formal accounts (e.g., Trinh 2005; Duffield 2017; Phan & Duffield 2016, 2019).

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a new analysis of the Negative Constraint in Vietnamese, whereby the anterior morpheme đã loses its perfect reading in negative contexts. The Nanosyntax approach adopted here is claimed to derive this constraint without the stipulations inherent in existing formal accounts (e.g., Trinh 2005; Duffield 2017; Phan & Duffield 2016, 2019).

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
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.211.04pha

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
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