This preliminary work examines the Vietnamese diachronic data to first attempt a glimpse
into the inventory of specialized dynamic modal elements in Vietnamese, and to adumbrate …

This paper investigates a particular type of non-canonical what-questions in Vietnamese
called surprise-denial/disapproval questions. We first propose a finer-grained distinction …

This paper pursues the issues surrounding Vietnamese flip-flop sentences in terms of verb
raising and covert modals from a comparative point of view. We show that verb movement in …

Ettehkey 'how'in Korean can be interpreted as either causal, manner, or resultative how
according to its “height of interpretation”(Hacquard 2006). Interestingly, it is immune from …

This study first argues that Vietnamese được (lit.'gain, acquire, come to have') indicates only
dynamic readings in the capacity of a post-verbal modal auxiliary. If a post-verbal được is …

Since Huang's (1982) seminal work on comparative syntax, the research on the structure
and properties of in-situ wh-expressions has gone a long way. This chapter distinguishes …

As far as Vietnamese information-seeking questions are concerned, đâu is a wh-item
equivalent to the English where. However, in a variety of non-canonical construals, đâu can …