The Structure of Noun Phrase in English and Vietnamese
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Contrastive Analysis
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- The structure of noun phrase in Vietnamese
The structure of noun phrase in Vietnamese Vietnamese have an old saying “Qua bao phong ba bão táp không bằng ngữ pháp Việt Nam”, which means Vietnamese grammar is very complicated. The fact is Vietnamese linguists cannot reach a consensus on some grammatical issues. With no exception, noun phrase has been at the center of debate for long. Now I’d like to present the viewpoint of some established figures in this field. In the book Vietnamese grammar (Ngữ pháp tiếng Việt), Nguyễn Tài Cẩn points out that Vietnamese noun phrases have two parts: the head and the modification composed of the pre-modification and post-modification. What special about his finding is the head noun. He claims that if the noun is preceded by a classifier, both the noun and the classifier form the head. So the head is the combination of T1 and T2. For example:
According to Diệp Quang Ban, a noun phrase consists of three constituents: pre-modification, the head, post-modification. In the pre-modification, all the modifiers add more information in terms of quantity. In contrast, all the elements of post-modification give more information about quality. The head of a noun phrase can be a word or a group of words in which a classifier is followed by a noun, a verb, or an adjective. For instance:
Basing on the analysis of those linguists together with Mai Ngoc Chu, Vu Duc Nghieu, and Hoang Trong Phien, this paper will discuss in detail the structure of Vietnamese noun phrases. A noun phrase is treated as a grammatical unit composed of three parts: pre-modification, head, post-modification. In this part, I will take “tất cả những cái con mèo đen ấy” as an example to analyse the structure of Vietnamese noun phrase. The structure of Vietnamese noun phrase can be summarized in the following table: Table 2: The Structure of Noun Phrase in Vietnamese
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