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Lee, Juwon. (2025). Result cancellation in Vietnamese causative verbs: Experimental evidence. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 33(2), 101-114. This study investigates the phenomenon of result cancellation in Vietnamese causative verbsa linguistic feature attested in various languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Tamil, Japanese, and Korean. Although result cancellation, whereby the inherent result of a causative verb is negated, has been documented across multiple languages, its status in Vietnamese remains largely unexplored. This paper addresses two central questions: whether Vietnamese permits result cancellation with causative verbs, and if so, under what conditions it occurs. To explore these questions, an experimental approach was employed. The results indicate that Vietnamese tends to permit result cancellation, but only when at least one of two factors is present: the subject's intention regarding the verb's inherent result or the presence of a direct cause. These findings contrast with Korean, where each factor is individually required. By providing empirical evidence for both the existence and conditioning factors of result cancellation in Vietnamese, this study contributes to the broader cross-linguistic understanding of result cancellation phenomenon.

# result cancellation # causative verb # intention # direct cause # experiment # Vietnamese

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