EMBEDDED ADJECTIVES IN CHINESE AND VIETNAMESE QUANTITATIVE NOUN STRUCTURES FROM A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE
Hy Thi Hong Nhung · Journal of Science Educational Science · 2024
From a cognitive perspective, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the embedded adjectives in the structure of Chinese and Vietnamese quantitative nouns. It employs the theory of distance iconicity and image schema to reveal the cognitive strategies of these languages. The conceptual components within the structure of numeral classifiers are close, and thus they should also be close in language form. Conversely, the conceptual components in the structure of collective classifiers and container classifiers are distant from each other, and therefore, they can be separated in language form. Additionally, when the image is perceived as a whole, the cognitive strategy of summary scanning is adopted. When the image can be decomposed into processes, the cognitive approach of sequential scanning is adopted. There are many syntactic differences between Chinese and Vietnamese in such structures, but certain cognitive rules can still be identified. In the future, we will strive to provide more comprehensive summaries and natural explanations of the language structures of Chinese and Vietnamese, particularly the syntactic structures.