Vietnamese empty words of Chinese origin in Thien Nam ngu luc
Abstract
This paper deals with Vietnamese empty words of Chinese origin used in Thien Nam ngu luc in the 17th Century. Followings are what we ha ve found:
- There are 50 Vietnamese empty words of Chinese origin including 7 emty words of ancient Sino-Viet, 9 empty words of Vietnamized Sino- Viet and 34 empty words of Sino-Viet.
- With regards to their positions and grammatical functions, these empty words can take a place in the noun phrases, verbal phrases and adjective phrases; or act as connectors between sentence components or between sentences.
- From the development aspect, we have highlighted the evolution of these empty words from the 17th century until present.