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B.

PRACTICE
1. Examine the data below and answer the questions.
Vietnamese/English pair:
Tối qua cô ấy mệt. (Hanoi dialect) vs Last night she was tired.
Cô ấy đã đọc xong cuốn sách này. vs She has finished reading this book.
Hôm qua anh ấy bị chó táp. vs He was snapped at by a dog yesterday.
i) Juxtapose the two pair of sentences and compare to state how explicit Vietnamese is
compared to English in the translationally-equated pair of sentences in rank of sentence,
clause, phrase, word, morpheme.

Contrasted ranks S Cl. Phr. Wd. Morph.


Contrasted sentences

Tối qua cô ấy mệt.

She was tired yesterday.

S Cl. Phr. Wd. Morph.


Contrasted ranks
Contrasted sentences

Cô ấy đã đọc xong cuốn


sách này.

She has finished reading


this book.

S Cl. Phr. Wd. Morph.


Contrasted ranks
Contrasted sentences

Hôm qua anh ấy bị chó


táp.

He was snapped at by a
dog yesterday

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PLEASE CONSULT THE SUGGESTED ANSWER BELOW
i) List out possible translational equivalents in English
1) His eyes made everybody feel afraid.
2) His eyes frightened everybody.
3) His eyes scared everybody.
ii) Identify the causative verb type of the English translational equivalents for the
Vietnamese causative verb (làm cho sợ hãi) in terms of morphological, syntactic,
lexical categories.

Types of causative Syntactic/ Morpho, Lexical Explain your choice


verb Analytic logical
E.g + VCAUSATIVE + VRESULTATIVE
a. to make s.b calm make calm
the separate word “make” is used to express the
causative process
b. to calm s.b + V[CAUSATIVE + RESULTATIVE ]
calm/still
It is a single lexeme that doesn't undergo affixation
or combination of root morphemes
c. to threaten s.b. + RESULTATIVE N + EN CAUSATIVE
threat en
"threaten" involves a root morpheme ("threat")
combined with a causative suffix ("-en")
Make s.b. afraid

Frighten s.b

Scare s.b

iii) Which type of causative verbs in English (mentioned in ii) has most
similarities in terms of syntactic features (word order, sentence element, number of
words/morphemes) as those in Vietnamese?
Make s.b. afraid: Syntactic/Analytic

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iv) To show the similarities between this type of causative verb (mentioned in iii)
in English and Vietnamese, please draw a table to represent the syntactic features of the
causative verbs in the two sentences.

Syntactic ele.
Language of CA

Vietnamese

English

Semantic element

3. Examine the sentences in the box on the box below and answer the following questions.
i) Identify the cause of error of transfer (lexical or structural) in the each of the following
sentences;
ii) Write the intended correct sentences in the box on the right.
 You are asked to identify the kind of error and point out the negative transfer of the
word/structure, e.g. Có has
Erroneous sentences Cause of error of transfer Intended Correct Sentences
My family has five people. Kind of error: lexical error There are five
Có has members/persons in my
family.
Although he was so tired, -kind of
but he still kept working. error: ................................
I lost two hours to finish this -kind of
work. error: ................................
I forgot my book at home. -kind of
error: ................................

I very like Coca Cola. -kind of


error: ................................

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