3. Date of birth: 23/08/1983 4. Place of birth: Thai Nguyen
5. Admission decision number: 3551/QĐ-XHNV dated 29/12/2017 by Rector of USSH, VNU
6. Changes in academic process: No
7. Official thesis title: The dependent relational words in Vietnamese from the perspective of functional grammar
8. Major: Linguistics 9. Code: 62 22 02 40
10. Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Thi Lan Anh
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
Research on the dependent relational words in Vietnamese from the perspective of functional grammar, the thesis has outlined the characteristics of getting dependent relational words in Vietnamese, from there, has established the system of dependent relational words in Vietnamese including 103 dependent relational words. This system of dependent relational words is the research object of the thesis. Typical roles of dependent relational words in Vietnamese on three aspects: syntactic, semantics and pragmatics have been presented and described particularly. Namely:
On the aspect of syntactic, the dependent relational words is the factor that connects and denotes secondary main grammatical relations in the structure of phrases, sentences and texts; it is the factor that marks the syntactic positions: adverbial, topical phrase, object, determiner; it can undertake an independent part of the sentence. In particular, the thesis has shown that for the case of Vietnamese relational sentences, the dependent relational words can take on the position of a predicate - one of the two main components of the sentence.
On the aspect of semantics, the dependent relational wordscan take on a prime role in relationships, actively participate in the introduction and mark the presence of all kinds of arguments (meaning roles). A dependent relational word may introduce and mark many different types of arguments and a type of argument may be introduced and marked by many dependent relational words. The dependent relational words is also a means to express subjective status, indicating assessments of quantity and quality of the speaker for a situation reflected in a sentence.
On the aspect of pragmatic, the dependent relational words take on a collusion role in reasoning, actively participate in introducing and connecting the components of argument: arguments and conclusions in simple form of reasoning, including reasoning with only one argument and reasoning with more than one argument (concurrent reasoning, contradictory reasoning). For the topic and comment structures, the dependent relational words are means of marking pragmatical functions such as Theme, Tail, participating in the comment and connecting elements in the comment.
12. Practical applicability, if any:
The thesis can be used as a reference in research and internal comparison on the dependent relational words in Vietnamese, and at the same time contribute to the compilation of dictionaries and tool books. The research results also provide suggestions for understanding and using the dependent relational words in Vietnamese flexibly and effectively in creating sentences, texts and in communication.
13. Further research direction, if any:
The role of the dependent relational words in Vietnamese for language action, information structure, implicit meaning, ... in pragmatics has not yet been shown in the thesis. These may be the follow-up studies on the dependent relational words in the future.
14. Thesis-related publications:
1. La Thi My Quynh (2017), “The role of the dependent relational word “để” in predicator - participant structure”, Journal of Language and Life (8), pp.15-20.
2. La Thi My Quynh (2019), “The grammatical and semantic roles of the dependent relational word “bằng” in Vietnamese”, Journal of Language and Life (7), pp.10-17.
3. La Thi My Quynh (2019), “The role of relational words in the short story “Hai đứa trẻ” (Thạch Lam) seen from three - dimensional theory: tactics - semantics - pragmatics”, Journal of Language and Life (12), pp.59-67.
4. La Thi My Quynh (2020), “The grammatical and semantic roles of the relational word “với” in Vietnamese”, Journal of Language and Life (11a), pp.36-44.
5. La Thi My Quynh (2021), “The role expressing the modality meaning of dependent relational words in Vietnamese”, Journal of Language and Life (4), pp.12-20.
