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Vietnamese

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An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words and syntactic structures.

All example texts are transcribed and glossed.Prof. Nguyễn Ðinh-Hoa has based this grammar on his vast teaching experience and gives basic insights into "Vietnamese without veneer".

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Product Details
1556197330 / 9781556197338
Hardback
02/09/1997
Netherlands
299 pages
174 x 245 mm, 720 grams