Vietnamese

Nguyễn Ðình-Hoà | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words and syntactic structures. All example texts are transcribed and glossed.

Prof. Nguyễn Ðình-Hoà has based this grammar on his vast teaching experience and gives basic insights into “Vietnamese without veneer”.

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 9] 1997. x, 289 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 July 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/loall.9

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. ix–x

1. Introduction | pp. 1–16

2. The sound system | pp. 17–34

3. The lexicon | pp. 35–58

4. The Lexicon (continued) | pp. 59–82

5. Parts of speech | pp. 83–106

6. Parts of speech (continued) | pp. 107–138

7. Parts of speech (continued) | pp. 139–170

8. The noun phrase | pp. 171–184

9. The verb phrase | pp. 185–208

10. The sentence | pp. 209–232

11. The sentence (continued) | pp. 233–255

Appendix 1. Parts of speech | p. 256

Appendix 2. Texts | pp. 257–262

Index | pp. 276–290

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