The troponymy is one of the important semantic relations of the Vietnamese verb lexical system. In addition to briefly introducing the concept of the troponymy in the Vietnamese verb system, the connstructure of the tropponym, the article focuses on an overview of research on the issue from different approaches. Specifically, the researched areas related to the troponymy in Vietnamese linguistics such as grammar, semantics… are also emphasized and clarified to help the readers can have an overall view of the research history of the troponymy in Vietnamese.
Keywords: hyponym, semantic relationships, troponym, troponymy
