33.3389, Books: Anaphoric Dependencies in Vietnamese: Thi Doan

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Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:50:13
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Anaphoric Dependencies in Vietnamese: Thi Doan

 


Title: Anaphoric Dependencies in Vietnamese 
Subtitle: A Syntactic Approach 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/anaphoric-dependencies-in-vietnamese 


Author: Quy Ngoc Thi Doan

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934100 Pages: 329 Price: Europe EURO 36


Abstract:

The aim of this dissertation is to provide a detailed analysis of anaphoric
dependencies in Vietnamese, with right from the start, a focus on theoretical
puzzles and phenomena that contribute to our understanding of this particular
language and of language in general.

To achieve this goal, I investigated  the inventory of anaphoric expressions,
the expression of reflexivity, the syntactic representation of non-local
anaphoric dependencies and the restrictions these dependencies are subject to.

Prima facie the binding patterns in Vietnamese look rather different from the
patterns in well-known languages like English. In addition to pronominal
elements and an anaphoric element mình, also proper names and common noun
expressions such as kinship terms and status terms show pronominal
characteristics. Honorificity features appear to play a much more significant
role in the language. While mình can be non-locally bound, for coargument
binding it requires the element tự, just like other pronoun-type elements,
reflecting the cross-linguistic pattern that reflexivity must be licensed.  In
addition, mình can virtually always be interpreted as the speaker in the
absence of an overt 1st person antecedent. Non-local binding of mình is
subject to a blocking effect that at first sight may seem similar to the
blocking effect in Mandarin Chinese but is rather different in detail. With
all the similarities and differences the Vietnamese anaphoric system possesses
in comparison to other languages, I show that it can be unified into the world
of anaphors/reflexives and successfully accounted for by a Multiple-Agree
based approach to anaphor binding as elaborated in this dissertation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Language Family(ies): Vietnamese


Written In: English  (eng)

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