Open AccessPhenomenon of conversion in Vietnamese and English – applying to the teaching of languages
Author(s) -
An Thi Ngoc Vo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
khoa học công nghệ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1859-0128
DOI - 10.32508/stdj.v18i2.1190
Subject(s) - vietnamese , phenomenon , noun , computer science , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , zero (linguistics) , function (biology) , philosophy , epistemology , evolutionary biology , biology
The paper presents the characteristics of conversion in Vietnamese and English according to different kinds of conversion (between nouns and verbs, nouns and adjectives, verbs and adjectives; nouns and function words, verbs and function words), and according to two types of conversion which are complete conversion (zero derivation) and approximate conversion. The paper also presents some ways of teaching conversionwords based on comparing the similarities and differences of the phenomenon conversion between English and Vietnamese.