Publications, including articles in press

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Duffield, Nigel. in press. The “unploughed field”: Speculations on a generativist approach to charted and uncharted territory. Proceedings of International Conference on Systemic Functional Linguistics, Hanoi, December 2023.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2022. Whales, and other Mammals: A Naturalist’s Take on Syntactic Variation (with particular reference to Vietnamese) JSEALS (special publication) Number 8.

Phan, Trang & Duffield, Nigel. 2022. A Roadmap to Vietnamese Phrase Structure. In Chris Shei & Saihong Li (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics. London: Taylor & Francis.

Phan, Trang & Duffield, Nigel. 2021. On the Structure and Acquisition of Telicity and Unaccusativity in Vietnamese. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 19.2., 1-32.

Duffield, Nigel.  2020. Bah, Humbug! Some extemporaneous thoughts on the past, present and future of Tense and Comp in Vietnamese. In From T to C: Grammatical Representations of Tense and Speech Acts. [Conference Proceedings Paper]. Hanoi: Vietnamese Institute of Linguistics.

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[a] Duffield, Nigel. 2019. Introduction. In Duffield, Nigel, Phan, Trang & Trinh, Tue (eds). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics. pp. 1-8. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

 

[b] Duffield, Nigel. Illusory Islands: On ‘Wh-questions in Vietnamese.’ In Duffield, Nigel, Phan, Trang & Trinh, Tue (eds). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, pp. 81-114. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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[c] Phan, Trang, & Duffield, Nigel. A more perfect unification: exploring a Nano-syntactic solution to Vietnamese đã. In Duffield, Nigel, Phan, Trang & Trinh, Tue (eds.). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics, pp. 69-80. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

 

Phan, Trang & Nigel Duffield. 2019. The Vietnamese Perfect – A Compositional Analysis. In A. Patard, R. Peltola & E. Roussel (eds.) Cahiers Chronos [Crosslinguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect], 30, 38-63.

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Duffield, Nigel. ‘Down, Down, Down’: how many layers can there be to Inner Aspect? Festschrift article. In L. Kalin, I. Paul, & J. Vander Klok (eds.) McGill Working Papers in Linguistics – Special Issue in Honour of Lisa Travis, Vol 25, 1: 110-122. (Available online from Feb. 2019)

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Duffield, Nigel. Parsing Out in English and Vietnamese [Conference Version.] Proceedings of 5th Nafosted Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS). November 2018. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8606823

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Duffield, Nigel 2017. On what projects in Vietnamese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. doi:10.1007/10831-017-9161-1.

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Phan, Trang and Duffield Nigel. To be tensed or not to be tensed?: the Case of Vietnamese. Investigationes Linguisticae XXXVII (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań).

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Duffield, Nigel. 2015. On What Projects. Lingbuzz/002429.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2014. Shake Can Well. Lingbuzz/002119.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2014. Minimalism and Semantic Syntax: Interpreting Multifunctionality in Vietnamese. In International Conference on The Linguistics of Vietnam in the Context of Renovation and Integration, pp. 1090-1113. Hanoi (LingBuzz/001919).

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Duffield, Nigel. 2014. Inadvertent Cause and the Unergative-unaccusative split in Vietnamese and English. In Bridget Copley & Fabienne Martin (eds.) Causation in Grammatical Structure. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2014. Grammatica una et eadem est secundum substantiam in omnibus linguis, licet accidentaliter varietur: Reflections on Universal Grammar and the importance—or otherwise—of Language Diversity. Konan University Faculty Journal 163.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2013. On Polarity Emphasis, Assertion and Mood in Vietnamese and English. Lingua 137, 248-270. (doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.09.007)

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Duffield, Nigel. 2013. Head-First: On the head-initiality of Vietnamese clauses. In Daniel Hole & Elisabeth Löbel (eds.) Linguistics of Vietnamese, 127-154. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Preprint LingBuzz/001935).

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Duffield, Nigel. 2011. On Unaccusativity in Vietnamese and the Representation of Inadvertent Cause. In R. Folli and C. Ulbrich (editors) Researching Interfaces in Linguistics, 78-95. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2009. Commentary: When is a Copy not (a Copy)? Theoretical Linguistics 35, 251-259.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2007. Aspects of Vietnamese clause structure: separating tense from assertion. Linguistics 45, 765-814.

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Duffield, Nigel. 2001. On certain head-final effects in Vietnamese. In K. Megerdoomian and L. A. Bar-el (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL XX (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics), University of Southern California,101-114.