Clark Marybeth. Coverbs and case in Vietnamese

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1978. — 228 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 48).In the Vietnamese language, there is a set of words which can occur as main verbs in a sentence but can also, in other sentences, occur in exocentric construction with a noun phrase, seeming to have a prepositional function in the construction. When these words occur in their prepositional function, they are called "coverbs" in this study.
The principal purposes of this study are as follows:
1. To describe and illustrate the behaviour of coverbs in Vietnamese
2. To determine the syntactic role of coverbs and their role in the classification of verbs in Vietnamese