Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- I. Phonology/Phonetics -- 1. The cross-dialectal perception of Vietnamese tones: Indexicality and convergence -- 2. Prosodic means in repair initiation as an activity in Northern Vietnamese conversation -- II. Noun phrase syntax -- 3. The Vietnamese noun phrase -- 4. Vietnamese classifier phrases from the perspective of how children acquire them -- III. Clausal and verb phrase syntax -- 5. Head-First: On the head-initiality of Vietnamese clauses -- 6. Vietnamese and the typology of passive constructions -- 7. Serial verbs and change of location constructions in Vietnamese -- IV. Pronouns and minor word classes -- 8. Wh-phrases as indefinites: A Vietnamese perspective -- 9. On conjunction and comitativity in Vietnamese -- 10. Focus particles and related entities in Vietnamese -- Index