Some special phenomena of the head of Vietnamese noun phrase during the XVII- XVIII centuries (via National language texts)

Abstract

    From diachronic view, the paper will describe and analyze phenomenon of head noun in Vietaamese noun phrase structure during the XVII- XVUI centuries via Nationd language texts of CathoUc community. The linguistic data does not only reveal the role of being the head noun of unit nouns and countable mass nouns but also shows the way in which some mass nouns were being grammaticalized in Vietaamese more than three hundred years ago.