Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics

Southeast and East Asian Contexts
2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-4313-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community

This book facilitates constructive interdisciplinary dialogue among linguistics and philology specialists concerning various languages in Vietnam, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The book’s principal objective is to investigate the interdisciplinary nature of language change, with a particular focus on analyzing the structural and socio-cultural components of the evolution of specific linguistic phenomena over time. The book concentrates on the five primary language families in the East and Southeast Asian linguistic arena, namely Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and Hmong-Mien. In doing so, it develops understanding of the extent to which language change is the result of language-internal mechanisms, prolonged contact with other languages within the same linguistic area, and the surrounding socio-cultural milieu. Given that Vietnam presents a linguistic microcosm of the East and Southeast Asia region, the book is divided into two sections. The first centers on historical linguistics relating to major languages based in Vietnam, including Vietnamese and its significant neighbors, Tay and Nung. The subsequent section examines the transformations observable in other languages prevalent across East and Southeast Asia that are historically, typologically, and geographically related to languages from Vietnam, including Chinese, Formosan, and Philippine languages, as well as Hmongic languages. A product of a workshop sponsored by the Harvard Yenching Institute held at the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies, this book encompasses a significant contribution to the field of Vietnamese historical linguistics, which has been notably underexplored in academic research. It is relevant to linguists, philologists, historians, anthropologists, and cultural scholars interested in Vietnam in particular, and the Southeast and East Asian cultural and linguistic landscape at large.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phan, Trang

Nguyen, Tuan-Cuong

Shimizu, Masaaki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: by Trang Phan (Vietnam National University Hanoi), Nguyen Tuan Cuong (Associate Professor, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) & Masaaki Shimizu (Professor, Osaka University).- Etymological study of Vietnamese words for textiles and clothing by Mark Alves (Montgomery College).- The rise of negative markers: the case of Sino-Vietnamese 'không' and beyond by Trang Phan (Vietnam National University Hanoi), Nguyen Tuan Cuong (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) & Masaaki Shimizu (Osaka University).- On the development of particle 'chu?ng' as a merger of object pronomial and relative pronomial functions: Evidence from the Cô? Châu Pháp Vân Ph?^t ba?n hành ngu~ lu?c by John Phan (Columbia University).- Initial Consonants Comparison of Tay and Nung in Trang Dinh district from the diachronic perspective by Hirana Ayaka (Osaka University).- Reflections ofVoiced Initials in Tay Manuscripts from Cao Bang Province by David Holm (National Chengchi University).- Possibility modals in Chinese and the morpho-syntax of their complements: a view from First Phase Syntax by Barbara Meisterernst (National Tsing Hua University).- The multifunctionality of gwo in Cantonese: A synchronic and diachronic study by Carine Yuk-man Yiu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).- Deriving Syntactic Variation of Old Chinese and Contemporary Chinese from the Bidirectional Growth Model of Child Language Acquisition by Mengmeng Yang and Jianhua Hu (Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences).- Proto-Austronesian Interrogative Pronouns and Their Development by Edith Aldridge (Academia Sinica, Taiwan).- Why do you give/put something when you say you take it? by Yoshihisa Taguchi (Chiba University).

Über Autor(innen)

Trang Phan is an Assistant Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Dr. Phan completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield (England) in 2013, focusing on the structure and acquisition of Vietnamese verbal aspect. Following this, she held a postdoctoral research position with the Cartographic Syntax project at Ghent University (Belgium), where she examined various aspects of Vietnamese clausal structure in a cross-linguistic perspective. From 2020 to 2021, Dr. Phan was a visiting scholar at Harvard Yenching Institute (USA), where she conducted research on the role of Vietnamese nominals in updating our current understanding of classifier languages. She has published numerous articles in esteemed linguistic journals and publishers, in addition to co-editing the volume  (John Benjamins, 2019), the  special issue  (University of Hawai’i Press, 2022) and the special issue Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2024). She is the author of the monograph   (Routledge, 2023).

Tuan-Cuong Nguyen is a Senior Researcher and an Associate Professor in Vietnamese Sinology. He currently serves as the Director of the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS); and holds the role of Adjunct Professor of Sinology at Vietnam National University – Hanoi (VNU). In his prolific academic career, Nguyen has made significant contributions, with close to 100 journal articles and conference papers published in Vietnamese, English, Chinese, and Japanese. Furthermore, Nguyen authored and co-authored several books in Vietnamese language, including  (Hanoi: National University-Hanoi Publishing House, 2012), and  ‘ (Hanoi: Social Sciences Publishers, 2020). In addition to his Vietnamese publications, Nguyen has co-edited three books in Chinese, namely:  (Beijing: China Social Science Press, 2017),  (Beijing: China Social Science Press, 2019),  (Taipei: Student Book Co., LTD, 2023).

Masaaki Shimizu is a Professor in Vietnamese studies in the Division of Foreign Studies at the Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Japan. He currently holds the position of vice-chairperson within the same division. Shimizu's scholarly contributions encompass a diverse range of works, including  featured in the  (BRILL, 2017) and several articles on Austroasiatic languages included in the (Hituzi Syobo, 2021). He has also co-authored several books in Japanese, such as  (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2022),  (Kachosha, 2022), and (The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2018).