The projection of Inner Aspect in Vietnamese

Several semantic and syntactic distinctions, which have largely been neglected in the Vietnamese linguistic literature, are drawn together in this paper in a comparative context with other better-studied languages in order to indicate that Inner Aspect is projected within the VP shell and independen...

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Main Author:	Trang Phan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2013-06-01
Series:	Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Subjects:	Telicity Inner Aspect Vietnamese
Online Access:	http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/76

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spelling	doaj-1db8720044e940af9176a389e91fe70f2021-09-02T01:03:00ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics1645-45372397-55632013-06-01121416210.5334/jpl.7675The projection of Inner Aspect in VietnameseTrang Phan0University of SheffieldSeveral semantic and syntactic distinctions, which have largely been neglected in the Vietnamese linguistic literature, are drawn together in this paper in a comparative context with other better-studied languages in order to indicate that Inner Aspect is projected within the VP shell and independently of the projection of Outer Aspect – a structural proposal originally advanced by Travis (2010). Overall, Vietnamese with its isolating character and rigid word order provides us with unusually direct evidence for an articulated VP structure.http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/76TelicityInner AspectVietnamese
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title	The projection of Inner Aspect in Vietnamese
title_short	The projection of Inner Aspect in Vietnamese
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series	Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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publishDate	2013-06-01
description	Several semantic and syntactic distinctions, which have largely been neglected in the Vietnamese linguistic literature, are drawn together in this paper in a comparative context with other better-studied languages in order to indicate that Inner Aspect is projected within the VP shell and independently of the projection of Outer Aspect – a structural proposal originally advanced by Travis (2010). Overall, Vietnamese with its isolating character and rigid word order provides us with unusually direct evidence for an articulated VP structure.
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The projection of Inner Aspect in Vietnamese

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