A contrastive analysis of simple negative sentences in English and Vietnamese

Abstract

This paper represents the whole process of analyzing negative sentences in English and Vietnamese by comparing the negation in the two languages. Besides, it is an effort to contribute to the field of contrastive analysis of English-Vietnamese language. The scope of this study focuses on the simple negative sentences. The study is divided into three parts: showing simple negative sentences in English, showing simple negative sentences in Vietnamese and comparing some differences and similarities between simple negative sentences in English and simple negative sentences in Vietnamese