Main description:
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. Nguy'n ình-Hòa has based this grammar on his vast teaching experience and gives basic insights into 'Vietnamese without veneer'.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The sound system
- 3. The lexicon
- 4. The Lexicon (continued)
- 5. Parts of speech
- 6. Parts of speech (continued)
- 7. Parts of speech (continued)
- 8. The noun phrase
- 9. The verb phrase
- 10. The sentence
- 11. The sentence (continued)
- Appendix 1. Parts of speech
- Appendix 2. Texts
- Bibliography
- Index
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. Nguy'n ình-Hòa has based this grammar on his vast teaching experience and gives basic insights into 'Vietnamese without veneer'.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The sound system
- 3. The lexicon
- 4. The Lexicon (continued)
- 5. Parts of speech
- 6. Parts of speech (continued)
- 7. Parts of speech (continued)
- 8. The noun phrase
- 9. The verb phrase
- 10. The sentence
- 11. The sentence (continued)
- Appendix 1. Parts of speech
- Appendix 2. Texts
- Bibliography
- Index