The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation

Name: The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation
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Erschienen am 28. Juli 2023

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The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation investigates familiar grammatical phenomena including Tense, Aspect, and Negation in a theoretically understudied language, Vietnamese.

The purpose of this book is to thoroughly examine how these categories are realised and how they interact with one another in Vietnamese in the spirit of Generative Grammar, in particular, the Cartographic approach to syntax and its most recently developed lexicalisation technique, Nanosyntax. It is concluded that despite lacking inflectional tense, Vietnamese does have syntactic tense, i.e., Vietnamese has those structural positions which are dedicated to Tense and Aspect. In fact, Tense and Aspect in Vietnamese are realised via a rigid fine-grained functional sequence which syntacticises subtle semantic distinctions both preverbally and post-verbally. There is a two-way complicated relationship between Negation and Aspect in Vietnamese, which can be explained in a principled way by taking into consideration how the internal syntax of the temporal, aspectual, and negative markers derives their clausal syntax. This book also discusses how Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation pattern with, and differ from, their counterparts in Western Indo-European languages, and how this study contributes to a better understanding of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages more generally, as well as of language universally.

This book will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary linguistics, and for scholars interested in contemporary approaches to Vietnamese linguistics, and Southeast Asian languages more generally.

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'There is tense in "tenseless" languages. This book investigates key aspects of the clause structure of an understudied language in a remarkably clear and insightful way. It's a beautiful example of the richness of modern generative linguistics. Also Vietnamese now becomes a protagonist in the exciting debate on the nature of crosslinguistic variation.'
- Professor Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University.

'This book is of a very high value, not just for researchers specializing in Vietnamese linguistics, but clearly for all theoretical linguists. Vietnamese is a language of a very specific type; it is an analytic language with no inflection typically wearing its logical structure on its sleeves. As such, results arrived at for Vietnamese will very often have direct repercussions for the analysis of other languages as well.'
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Hole, University of Stuttgart

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PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1. Objectives

2. Why Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation?

3. Research questions

4. Theoretical assumptions

5. Outline of the book

CHAPTER 2: SYNTACTICISING TENSEDNESS

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical background

3. Non-peripherality

4. Non-optionality

5. The hierarchy of tense and aspect

6. Other properties associated with tensedness

6.1. Bare predicates

6.2. Finiteness

6.3. Expletive subjects

7. Conclusion

CHAPTER 3: DECOMPOSING THE PERFECT

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical background

3. The semantic compositionality of da

3.1. Achievements and da

3.2. States and da

3.3. Activities and da

3.4. Accomplishments and da

3.5. Discussion

4. The interaction between da and negative/interrogative markers khong/chya

4.1. Da in the absence of negative khong/ch?a

4.2. Da in the presence of negative khong/ch?a

4.3. Da in the presence of interrogative khong/ch?a

4.4. Discussion

5. The Interaction between da and other preverbal elements

6. Conclusion

CHAPTER 4: CALCULATING TELICITY

1. On the compositionality of telicity in Vietnamese

1.1. Inherently telic verbs

1.2. Telic particles

1.3. Numeral direct object

1.4. Other factors

2. The syntactic projection of telicity in Vietnamese

3. Immediate consequence: Thematic hierarchy in causatives

4. Extension

5. Conclusion

CHAPTER 5: DECOMPOSING THE NEGATORS

1. Introduction

2. Negation and Lexical Aspect

3. Negation and Grammatical Aspect: the differences between khong and ch?a

4. Negation and Interrogativity

4.1. A cross-linguistic perspective

4.2. The similarities between negative khong/ch?a and interrogative khong/ch?a

4.3. Differences between negative khong/ch?a and interrogative khong/ch?a

4.4. A proposal for the featural make-up of khong and ch?a

5. Conclusion

CHAPTER 6: EXPLAINING THE NEGATION CONSTRAINT ON ASPECT

1. Introduction

2. Previous accounts

3. Explaining the negation constraint: The Nanosyntactic approach

4. Conclusion

CHAPTER 7: FINAL REMARKS

1. Does Vietnamese have Tense?

2. What is the functional sequence of Aspect markers in Vietnamese?

3. How does Negation interact with Tense Aspect in Vietnamese?

4. What does this study of Vietnamese TAN contribute to a better understanding of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages as well as of language more universally?

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