231 research outputs found
Chapter 4. A more perfect unification
No full textIn this paper, we provide a new analysis of the Negative Constraint in Vietnamese, whereby the anterior morpheme dã loses its perfect reading in negative contexts. The Nanosyntax approach adopted here is claimed to derive this constraint without the stipulations inherent in existing formal accounts (e.g., Trinh 2005; Duffield 2017; Phan & Duffield 2016, 2019)
PROGRESS IN VIETNAMESE LINGUISTICS
No full textThe papers published in this special issue are developed versions of presentations given at an online workshop hosted by Nigel Duffield at Konan University (Kobe, Japan) in March 2022. The presenters at this workshop are a diverse collection of international scholars united by their interest in Vietnamese linguistics: hence, the acronym ‘ISVL’. The “2” in the title indicates that this is the second in a series having its origin in a workshop – also online – organized from Harvard-Yenching Institute in April 2021, titled “Vietnamese Linguistics, Typology and Language Universals.” (ISVL-3 will take place as a hybrid online/in-person workshop in March 2023; it is our hope that the series will continue in future years)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
No full textThis volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book offers the reader a closely edited collection of papers, representing a wide spectrum of frameworks, approaches and methods, from traditional fieldwork studies of non-standard dialects, to corpus-based discussions of language and gender, to formal syntactic and semantic analyses of key functional morphemes, to laboratory experiments, and work in first language acquisition. Many of the papers present detailed analyses of original data, as well as novel treatments of established facts; considered together – as well as in contrast to one another – they make a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of how Vietnamese is structured, acquired and put to use. The papers should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary approaches to Vietnamese linguistics, and Southeast Asian languages more generally
Final Modals, Adverbs and Antisymmetry in Vietnamese
No full textCet article étudie la syntaxe et la sémantique des constructions du vietnamien où l’élément auxiliaire apparaît à droite du syntagme verbal. À première vue, cette distribution représente une objection aux propositions universalistes de Kayne 1995 et Cinque 1998, objection qui a déjà fait l’objet de deux analyses (Duffield 1998 et Simpson 1997, 1998). Le présent article réexamine les faits soutenant ces précédentes propositions. Il montre que ces faits sont insuffisants pour justifier la complexité dérivationnelle de l’une ou de l’autre interprétation, et propose un traitement plus simple, qui prend en considération l’interprétation des conditions grammaticales et extragrammaticales régissant le placement de l’auxiliaire en vietnamien, tout en conciliant ces distributions avec les principes universels.This paper is concerned with the syntax and semantics of Vietnamese constructions in which a modal element appears unexpectedly to the right of the verb-phrase. Prima facie, this distribution presents a challenge to the universalist proposals of Kayne 1995 and Cinque 1998, a challenge that has been addressed in two previous analyses: Duffield 1998 and Simpson 1997, 1998. The present article re-examines the empirical evidence supporting those previous proposals. It is argued that this evidence is insufficient to justify the derivational complexity of either account. A simpler alternative treatment is proposed which takes account of the various grammatical and extragrammatical conditions governing modal placement in Vietnamese, while simultaneously reconciling these distributions with universal principles
Taking Stock of EU Energy Policy
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript version of a chapter published in:
Vicki L. Birchfield and John S. Duffield, “Taking Stock of EU Energy Policy,” in Birchfield and Duffield, eds., Toward a Common EU Energy Policy: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
The Upheaval in EU Energy Policy
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript of an article published in:
John S. Duffield and Vicki L. Birchfield “The Upheaval in EU Energy Policy,” in Birchfield and Duffield, eds., Toward a Common EU Energy Policy: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Germany and EU Energy Policy: Conflicted Champion of Integration?
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript version of a chapter published in:
John S. Duffield and Kirsten Westphal, “Germany and EU Energy Policy: Conflicted Champion of Integration?” in Birchfield and Duffield, eds., Toward a Common EU Energy Policy: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Energy and Security
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript version of an article published in:
Duffield, John S. “Energy and Security,” The International Studies Encyclopedia, edited by Robert A. Denemark ( Wiley-Blackwell, 2010): 1398-1414.
(c) Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Japan’s New Basic Energy Plan
No full textAuthor accepted manuscript version of an article published in:
John S. Duffield and Brian Woodall, “Japan’s New Basic Energy Plan,” Energy Policy 39, no. 6 (June 2011): 3741-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.04.00
Acceptable ungrammaticality in sentence matching
No full textThis article presents a new set of experiments using the sentence-matching paradigm (Forster, 1979; Freedman and Forster, 1985; see also Bley-Vroman and Masterson, 1989), investigating native speakers' and second language (L2) learners' knowledge of constraints on clitic placement in French. Our purpose is three-fold:
• to shed more light on the contrasts between native speakers and L2 learners observed in previous experiments, especially Duffield and White (1999), and Duffield et al . (2002);
• to address some of the specific criticisms of the sentence-matching paradigm levelled by Gass (2001); and
• to provide a firm empirical basis for follow-up experiments with L2 learners.
The results reported here provide some confirmation of the validity of Duffield et al.'s earlier work, and help to adjudicate among competing interpretations of the previous effects
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