Nguyen T. Structure of the Vietnamese Noun Phrase

Boston University, 2004. - 205 p.This dissertation is a study of the Vietnamese Noun Phrase from a generative perspective. It provides an account of word order possibilities within the Noun Phrase across several language families of Southeast Asia, with a focus on Vietnamese. The proposal is that the different word orders attested in Noun Phrases are derived by applications of syntactic movement from a single underlying Determiner Phrase (DP) structure. This proposal constitutes a significant departure from prior analyses of Vietnamese and other related languages.