The Vietnamese Polyfunctional Marker Mà as a Generalized Linker: A Multilevel Approach
The 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 th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Hawaii Press
2019-09-01
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Series: | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52455 |