DECOMPOSING DEFINITENESS IN VIETNAMESE

This paper provides a detailed description of how Vietnamese encodes definiteness in the nominal phrase in the context of the crosslinguistic debate about the existence of lexical articles in classifier languages. We first show that so-called lexical determiners in Vietnamese are not genuine article...

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Main Authors: Trang Phan, Lam Quang Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hawaii Press 2021-02-01
Series:Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52476