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A Syntactic Analysis of the English Discourse Marker Only and Its Vietnamese Translational Equivalents

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: This descriptive and qualitative study, part of a big project, endeavored to explore the syntactic features of the English discourse marker only and its Vietnamese translational equivalents. It involved the development of a bilingual corpus, which consisted of 168 English and 168 Vietnamese instances of sentences containing only. The interpretive contrastive analysis was employed. The findings reveal that only in English often comes in three positions, namely, initial, medial, final, whereas their Vietnamese equivalent usually appears in initial and medial positions. Additionally, there are more similarities than differences in terms of syntactic functions of only used in English and Vietnamese.

Source: VNU Journal of Foreign Studies

DOI: 10.25073/2525-2445/vnufs.4157

Authors: Tran Quoc Thao, Nguyen Van Muoi

Institution: Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Engineering

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2767695079

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Cites: 3

Cited by: 1

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