The Vietnamese Polyfunctional Marker Mà as a Generalized Linker: A Multilevel Approach

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dc.contributor.authorDo-Hurinville, Danh Thành
dc.contributor.authorDao, Huy Linh
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-12T22:05:39Z
dc.date.available2019-09-12T22:05:39Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-12
dc.description.abstractThe main aim of this paper is to illustrate the notions of polyfunctionality and transcategoriality as described in Robert (2003, 2004) through the case study of the marker mà in modern Vietnamese. We lay out a multilevel analysis to account for its flexible categorial status. It will be proposed that mà is best treated as a Generalized Linker whose basic function consists in connecting two constituents of different types. We show that the transcategorial behavior of this morpheme results from its ability to operate on different levels: phrase level (relativizer, verbal conjunction), clause level (correlative conjunction), and sentence level (attitudinal sentence-final particle, discourse connector). In our account, the uses of mà at the sentence level and the weakening of its core function are the byproduct of some form of ellipsis targeting one of the two constituents connected by mà.
dc.format.extent14 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52455
dc.subjectMà
dc.subjectgeneralized linker
dc.subjectVietnamese Grammar
dc.subjecttranscategoriality
dc.subjectrelativizer
dc.subject.languagecodevie
dc.titleThe Vietnamese Polyfunctional Marker Mà as a Generalized Linker: A Multilevel Approach
dc.typeArticle
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prism.endingpage68
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage58
prism.volume12

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