TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hole, Daniel
A2  - Ishihara, Shinishiro
A2  - Petrova, Svetlana
A2  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - EVEN, ALSO and ONLY in Vietnamese
T2  - Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 11 / Shinishiro Ishihara, Svetlana Petrova and Anne Schwarz (eds.)
N2  - The article analyzes the system of focus-sensitive particles and, to a lesser extent, clefts in Vietnamese. EVEN/ALSO/ONLY foci are discussed across syntactic categories, and Vietnamese is found to organize its system of focus-sensitive particles along three dimensions of classification: (i) EVEN vs. ALSO vs. ONLY; (ii) particles c-commanding foci vs. particles c-commanding backgrounds; (iii) adverbial focus-sensitive particles vs. particles c-commanding argument foci only. Towards the end of the paper, free-choice constructions and additional sentence-final particles conveying ONLY and ALSO semantics are briefly discussed. The peculiar Vietnamese system reflects core properties of the analogous empirical domain in Chinese, a known source of borrowings into Vietnamese over the millennia.
KW  - focus particles
KW  - background particles
KW  - clefts
KW  - free-choice
KW  - Vietnamese
KW  - Chinese
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11879
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1128293
UR  - http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis11.pdf
SN  - 1866-4725
SP  - 1
EP  - 54
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -