The Structure of Noun Phrase in English and Vietnamese
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Contrastive Analysis
- Điều hướng trang này:
- A Numeral or an indefinite quantifier
- Post-modification
| Pre-modification
The focus marker “cái” (“cái” chỉ xuất) is used to emphasize the noun mentioned in the head. Sometime it is used to express hatred toward someone. In addition, the focus marker ‘cái” is usually accompanied by a demonstrative that appears after the head noun. For example: cái con người bạc ác ấy. It is advisable that we distinguish the focus marker “cái” (“cái” chỉ xuất) from the classifier “cái” (“cái” loại từ). The focus marker “cái” can go with any T2, whereas the classifier “cái” can only go with T2 which are inanimate objects. A Numeral or an indefinite quantifier is distributed in position (-2). Numerals are một (one), hai (two), ba (three), etc. Indefinite quantifiers are vài, dăm ba, mọi, những, tất cả, các, mấy, etc. Here are some points about numerals/ quantifiers that should be taken into consideration: Firstly, the focus marker “cái” does not co-occur with mỗi, từng, mọi, or các. For example, it is ungrammatical to say mỗi cái con mèo, các cái con mèo. Secondly, a numeral does not go immediately before collective nouns, except when the collective nouns refer to the members of a family. For example, we can say hai vợ chồng, bốn anh chị em, but we do not say năm trâu bò, mười quần áo. We should say năm đàn trâu bò, mười bộ quần áo instead. Thirdly, it is necessary to insert a classifier between an indefinite quantifier (except for những, các) and a collective noun, eg dăm cái quần áo, mấy con gà vịt. The position (-3) can be occupied by the following words: hết thảy, tất thảy, tất cả, etc. They express totality. The word totality is ambiguous in the sense that it can refer to the collection of many things (plural) (a) or the collection of many parts of a single object (singular) (b). For example: Anh ta làm tất cả mọi việc. Anh ta ăn cả một con gà. Post-modification Unlike pre-modification in which all the positions are relatively stable, post- modification is more complicated. Before investigating post-modification, we should bear in mind that there is no rigid formula for the post-modification. tải về 142 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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